Re: [CH] An Eat the Heat Reunion at Bowers This Year

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:52:25 -0400 

Karen, I have a couple tables if you need them.  I've got a folding table & 
chairs in my vehicle at all times (Never know when a spontaneous party 
breaks out), and could also pack a full size card table if you could use 
it.  Let me know and I'll toss it in...

=M

At 03:55 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, Karen Elizabeth Stober wrote:
>Hi
>
>Dad and I shall be there Saturday early.  We have to leave right after the 
>chile eating contest, as Dad has an Elks initiation ceremony and dinner at 
>6:30PM that night.
>
>Chip at Red Lion said it's OK for me to leave my promo chile pepper art 
>cards on his table and I need to be around in case there are questions.  I 
>don't know how much space I will have, so, I am bringing a tray table or 
>two so I can show my portfolio with more chile pepper art.  If there is 
>space for a tray table.  I also have a children's book I wrote about 
>peppers, "Scoville The Chile Pepper", that I created just as a portfolio 
>piece.  I will have a color copy of the book with me.  Hopefully - 
>Tabasco, who always have a table at the Festival, - or someone else will 
>be interested in publishing it after they see it at the Festival.  I've 
>gotten really good feedback on it from authors, teachers, illustrators and 
>one publisher who doesn't publish non-fiction.  Color copies of the book 
>are $150 each to make so I wont be selling any.  I have one page as a 
>sample to hand to publishers and lots of promo postcards to hand out.
>
>I am looking for opportunities for my pepper art, such as bottle labels, 
>cards (I would design them), and portraits with peppers.  I called Chile 
>Pepper Magazine, Chilis Restaurant and Fiery Foods.  Maybe something will 
>come of it.
>
>Here at home, peppers are terrible.  Most of my seeds never sprouted.  I 
>got about two dozen seedlings and maybe seven survived and thrived.  None 
>of my Habaneros, Rocottos, Bishops Crowns, Thais, Lemon Drops, Datils, 
>etc. survived.  I have Tabascos, Peters, Pasilla, Jalapeno, Fatallis, 
>Ajis(?), Rocotillo, and something that might be a Bishop's Crown but I am 
>not quite sure yet.  Most are not even starting to ripen yet.
>
>Today a deer broke the pool gate and munched all my hosta and turtleheads 
>to death.  So I poured dried blood on the chiles and what was left of the 
>plants.  The does ate my tomatoes, too.  The only plants that thrived are 
>the cranberries.
>
>Cheers
>
>Karen