| Area man headed to New Mexico for trail horse race
SANTA FE, N.M. -- William Becknell is called the father of the Santa Fe Trail. The Missouri trader's pack horses and wagons were the first to make the trip from Independence, Mo., to Santa Fe, N.M., in the 1820s.Oxen and horses averaged 12 to 15 miles a day as they pulled freight over the 8,000-mile route that became one of America's major commercial arteries.Each trip took six to eight weeks before the Santa Fe Railroad was finished in the 1880s and ended the trail's prominence. Becknell, who knew the dangers of the trail as well as anyone, would probably be on the sidelines cheering people like Roanoke's Greg Watkins, who intends to ride the course on horseback in just 13 days.Watkins and a team of three others will compete in the first-ever Great Santa Fe Trail Horse Race Sept. 3-15. Organizer Rob Phillips said the contest is modeled after a famous wager Francis X.
HSMAI, GLM, & Alliance Consulting Strategies Collaborate To Produce Event Technology Expo At Affordable Meetings® ...
MCLEAN, VA | The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI), George Little Management (GLM), and Alliance Consulting Strategies (ACS) will collaborate to produce the Event Technology Expo (ETE) at HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® National, taking place at the Washington Convention Center, Sept. 10-11, 2008. ETE is being developed as the first large-scale event fully dedicated to all aspects of technology as it relates to tradeshows, meetings and special events. ETE will be integrated into Affordable Meetings® National as a ‘show within a show.' “We are delighted to be hosting a combined audience of exhibition organizers, association and corporate meeting planners, and special events producers," stated Robert A. Gilbert, CHME, CHA, president and CEO of HSMAI.
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