First Day Cover Collectors To Explore Chicago's Best with Americover 2010
Lloyd A. de Vries
Day Cover Society's show and convention in suburban Chicago, will have
an opportunity to explore 13,000 years of human ingenuity -- and a
decade of human depredation.
Americover 2010, a World Series of Philately stamp show and convention,
will be held August 6-8 at the Chicago Marriott Oak Brook in Oak Brook, Ill.
The day before the show opens, Thursday, August 5, there's a field trip
to the Field Museum, which features permanent exhibitions on the Ancient
Americas, Nature and Ecosystems, Rocks and Fossils, and dinosaurs.
During Americover, the Field has a special exhibition, "Mammoths and
Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age," available for an additional fee.
After the show closes Sunday night, the 8th, some of those attending the
stamp show will dine and be entertained at Tommy Gun's Garage, an
audience interactive speakeasy featuring a musical comedy review "wit da
gangsters and da flappers."
There are also food events during Americover 2010. The President's
Banquet is held Friday night. The annual AFDCS cachet contest winners
will be announced at the end of the evening.
Because the Cachetmakers Bourse runs from the close of the show Saturday
into the evening, that night's food event is late, around 9 p.m., and
features sandwiches.
Sunday morning, there's a free breakfast for charter and life members of
the Society.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, a hospitality suite operated by
the Claude C. Ries (Southern California) and Robert C. Graebner
(D.C./Maryland, Virginia), and Chicagoland FDC Society chapters will be
open, complete with munchies, beverages and camaraderie.
Prices for the Field trip, banquet, post-bourse sandwiches and speakeasy
go up after June 30. There is also a discount for those ordering a
package of all four events.
A pre-registration form is included in the April 15 issue of First Days,
the official journal of the AFDCS, but a convenient online registration
system is available at the society's website, www.afdcs.org
Americover 2010 also features a commercial dealers bourse and a
cachetmakers bourse, a national-level exhibition of first day covers, a
forum by a postal official involved with first day covers, seminars,
meetings, a youth table, the Stamps in The Attic quick collection
evaluation service, and an auction.
More information on Americover 2010 is available on the AFDCS Web site,
www.afdcs.org, by e-mail from show...@afdcs.org or by regular mail from
Norman Elrod, Americover Chairman, 641 Dogwood Trail, McMinnville, TN
37110-3015.