JASNA – Annual General Meeting. Kansas City, MO. September 2018. *

The Jane Austen Society of North America holds an annual conference called the annual general meeting or AGM. The afternoon tea was pretty blah and really does deserve the 1 star rating. We didn’t seem to have enough food at the table and it was a bear to get additional cups of tea. At least there was water on the table. I suppose they had so many of us in the room…probably more than 300, it’s what we get at a hotel. But I was looking forward to something a bit more lovely, delicious and elegant for my $65 (yikes!). The fashion show of Regency era reproductions was very nice. To see pattens in use – gosh – forget ever seeing me in them! I’d just let my lovely shoes get all mucky. I included one photo of the $30 Cheese Tour of Jane Austen’s England, because it was pretty darn awesome.