2013 HOACGA Convention The 2013 Heart of America Carnival Glass Association (HOACGA) Convention will be April 24 - 28, 2013 at the Embassy Suites Airport Hotel, Kansas City, MO (five minutes from the Kansas City International Airport) 816-891-7788. All of the Hotel rooms are a two room suite with a window for viewing your display of glass for sale. For more information, click here. 2011 HOACGA Notebook Insert The 2011 Notebook section (second of three sections) is focused on a combination of “Miniatures”, “Smalls” and/or “Novelties”. The first section consisted of 240 colored photographs with as much information as possible about each piece. This Second section also contains 240 colored photographs with information about each item. The lack of information in a single publication (In most cases any publication) about these items is the reason for this Notebook section. It is intended to provide information to the present and future Carnival glass collector and others that have an interest in items such as these. For more information, click here to visit our Education page. BULLETIN CHANGE   by Bob Grissom & Emmett Morgan Previously, if you were a Texas Carnival Glass Club (TCGC) and HOACGA member you received a bulletin from both clubs. If you were only a TCGC or HOACGA member you only received information from the club for which you were a member. With this “Combined Bulletin” you are now receiving information from both clubs. As you see it has undergone a visual change, but the important thing it contains most of the same information that you have been used to seeing in the past. We are sure the first question is WHY THE CHANGE? One of the most difficult jobs in any club is that of Bulletin Secretary, and the fact is, the ones that have been doing it for some time want to take a rest. The task of the Bulletin Secretary is to OBTAIN THE INFORMATION, ORGANIZE THE INFO, GET IT PRINTED and MAILED or E-MAILED and then wait and see who didn’t get there copy so they can supply them a copy and then update the roster. Both TCGC & HOACGA are running out of people that are willing to take over this very important task. With this “Combined Bulletin” it will make the task of the Bulletin Secretary easier. If a club is not able to communicate with their members there will be no club. If you, and many collectors are, a member of both clubs then you are paying dues to each club, and receive their bulletin. With a “Combined Bulletin” you can receive information about both clubs and only pay the bulletin cost of $25.00 to the club of your choice. You may continue to be member of each club, but at a reduced membership fee of $10.00. It is our hope that each of you will be a member of both HOACGA & TCGC. The bulletin will be printed 6 times each year, starting this month, January. It is then proposed to be every other month. This is a totally new adventure for both clubs, but one we think will be of a mutual benefit. It will take some experience to determine the proper timing and make-up of the bulletin. When your membership is due in either club you can continue your membership in each club for $10.00 and then choose which club you want to receive the bulletin from for $25.00. WE WELCOME YOUR COMMENTS about the new bulletin. It is the intent to supply information of importance about the clubs and Carnival Glass to members. For the benefit of telling the Carnival Glass story, we the collector need all of the organizations. We TCGC & HOACGA welcome any of the other clubs to join us in this new way of supplying info to our members. We have not pursued the joining with other clubs for the simple reason, we would like to have some experience with a few bulletins so we know more details of this adventure.