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   From: Lloyd@virtualstampclub.com   
      
   First day cover collectors attending Americover 2010, the American First   
   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 showinfo@afdcs.org or by regular mail from   
   Norman Elrod, Americover Chairman, 641 Dogwood Trail, McMinnville, TN   
   37110-3015.   
      
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