Do good. Avoid evil. Pub your ish.

Your hosts: Dick Smith, Leah Zeldes Smith, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, Fern Tucker, Henry Welch and Letha Welch.

FanHistoriCon Speaker — Jack F Speer

ATTENDING MEMBERS: Forrest J Ackerman, Lynne Aronson, Mark Aronson, Don Ayres, Judy Bemis, Bill Bowers, Linda Bushyager, Dan Caldwell, Bill Cavin, Cokie Cavin, Rob Chilson, Catherine Crockett, Jane Dennis, Scott Dennis, Howard DeVore, Carolyn Doyle, Alex Eisenstein, Phyllis Eisenstein, Kurt Erichsen, Naomi Fisher, George Flynn, Steve Francis, Sue Francis, Beverly Friend, D. Gary Grady, Teddy Harvia, Carolyn Hickman, Mark Hickman, Colin Hinz, Cris Kaden, Neil Kaden, Mary Kay Kare, Hope Leibowitz, Eric Lindsay, Sam Long, Nicki Lynch, Richard Lynch, David Miller, Pat Molloy, Murray Moore, Erik Olson, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, Tony Parker, Gary Plumlee, Neil Rest, Jim Rittenhouse, Susan Rittenhouse, Alan Rosenthal, Dave Rowe, Ron Salomon, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Joyce Scrivner, Steven Silver, Pat Sims, Roger Sims, Dick Smith, Leah Zeldes Smith, Ben Solon, David Sooby, Jack Speer, Dick Spelman, Edie Stern, Keith Stokes, Jon Stopa, Diana Thayer, Gregg Trend, Fern Tucker, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, Tom Veal, Pat Virzi, Bob Webber, Toni Weisskopf, Jerry Weist, Henry Welch, Letha Welch, John Widmer, Art Widner, David Williams, Joel Zakem.

SUPPORTING MEMBERS: Harry Andrushak, Tom Beck, Ned Brooks, Cy Chauvin, Karen Cooper, Moshe Feder, Deb Geisler, Janice Gelb, Ben Liberman, Robert Lichtman, Bill Mallardi, Laurie Mann, Keesan Meltzer, Catherine Mintz, Michael Pins, Andrew I. Porter, Sarah Prince, Joe Siclari, Laurraine Tutihasi, Michael Waite, Bobb Waller.

Progress reports are available in Adobe PDF format (you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to display them):

• Spirits of Things Past One, April 2001.
  Includes: "The Prarie Indian Villiage Without Indians" by Bob Tucker, "Toward a New Fanspeak" by Leah Zeldes Smith

• Spirits of Things Past Two, August 2001.
  Includes: "Traveling Jiants and Other Neolalia" by Bob Tucker, "Just Another Brick in the Wall..." by Earl Kemp, letters of comment....

• Spirits of Things Past Three, September 2001.
  Includes: Con info: directions to the hotel, airport shuttle and other important hotel information, a list of things to bring, "Finding New Fans: Seth Johnson and His Fanzine Clearing House" by Leah Zeldes Smith, "The Campbells are Coming... Tra La?" by Bob Tucker, "How the GRINCH Stole Worldcon" by Bill "The Galactic" Fesselmeyer, Fan Hugo Award Results, "Who's Voting No Award?" by Leah Zeldes Smith, letters of comment....

• Spirits of Things Past Four: The CONTACT Fanthology, October 2001.

  In this sparkling* 100-page fanzine, produced by Dick and Leah Smith, publishers of the Hugo-nominated STET, 72 fans tell the stories of how they found their way to fandom. [*This is not hype - it literally sparkles!]

  Contributors comprise a wide variety of fen -- BNFs, LKFs, fanzine fans, convention fans, techies, pros, Hugo winners, Worldcon chairfen and more -- among them Forry Ackerman, Jack L. Chalker, Howard DeVore, Phyllis Eisenstein, John Foyster, Gordon Garb, Deb Geisler, Mike Glicksohn, Mike Glyer, Rob Jackson, Terry Jeeves, Dave Langford, Eric Lindsay, Rich and Nicki Lynch, Craig Miller, Jodie Offutt, Mark and Priscilla Olson, Bruce Pelz, Andrew I. Porter, Tullio Proni, Mike Resnick, Jon Singer, Jack Speer, Bob Tucker, Tom Veal, William R. Warren, Peter Weston and Tom Whitmore.

  Copies are $10, including U.S. postage (add $5 for copies to be sent outside the United States, $10 for overseas airmail); proceeds benefit ditto, FanHistoriCon and DUFF. Send a check or money order made out to Richard Smith to P.O. Box 266, Prospect Heights, IL 60070-0266, USA.

• Spirits of Things Past Five: The Program Book and Other Trivia, October 2001.
  Includes: Con info: Program schedule, restaurant guide and map, "Eleven Years Ago..." by Leah Zeldes Smith, "The Secret Handgrip of Fandom" by Ro Nagey, letters of comment....