{"id":15770832,"date":"2025-04-10T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wodehouse2.websitesforasong.com\/?p=15770832"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:42:08","slug":"convention-2003-toronto-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/convention-2003-toronto-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"2003: Toronto, Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Toronto, Ontario: Right Ho, Toronto!: August 8\u201310, 2003<br \/>\n<\/b><i>Speakers: Curtis Armstrong, Hilary Bruce, Anne Cotton, Dennis Chitty, Jan Kaufman, Elliott Milstein, Tony Ring, Richard Scrimger, Thomas L. R. Smith, Elin Woodger (for Helen Murphy)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Our first\u2014and so far only\u2014convention held outside the U.S. was only 230 miles away from Detroit, the home base of our hosts, the Pickering Motor Company. Although the talks and banquet were held in a hotel, many stayed on the beautiful campus of St. Michael\u2019s College, Elliott Milstein\u2019s alma mater. Very close by, at Trinity College, the TWSCC played a thoroughly rambunctious game on Friday that was made livelier when a passing Fellow of Trinity College expressed interest and was invited to join\u2014only for the amateurs to learn later that he was a former Canadian International player. The weekend was replete with such moments of fun and goofiness; it also contained one of the best slate of speakers to be heard at <i>any<\/i> convention, including the actor and writer Curtis Armstrong. The culmination of the Saturday talks was the Pickering Players\u2019 marvelous reading of \u201cUkridge\u2019s Accident Syndicate.\u201d At the dinner that night, there were costume prizes galore, plus a banjolele performance by Melissa Aaron, with her friend Pat accompanying on accordion. Sunday morning\u2019s brunch once again featured the members of Blandings Castle, this time reading \u201cThe Castaways\u201d\u2014which was how we felt after we left Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><i>See the full report of this convention in <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PL_v24_nr3.pdf\">Plum Lines<\/a><i>, Volume 24, No. 3 (Autumn 2003; p.2)<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"6a3929d28e67a\" class=\"gg_gallery_wrap gg_true_gallery gg_masonry_gallery gid_15770732 gg_hidden_ol gg_ol_bottom_mode gg_main_ol_show_on_h \" data-col-num=\"4\" data-gid=\"15770732\" data-nores-txt=\"No images found\">              <div class=\"gg_loader\">            <div class=\"ggl_1\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_2\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_3\"><\/div>            <div class=\"ggl_4\"><\/div>        <\/div>  <div class=\"gg_container\"><div class=\"gg_img \" data-gg-url=\"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pin-2003-Toronto.jpg\" 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