Mecon (ME)

(Did you mean a Northern Irish convention?)

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944

The Maine Stf convention. In the summer of 1943, Art Widner and LRChauvenet (who was visiting Boston) biked up to Obsequious Manor, Rockland, ME, to visit Norm Stanley. The only official action of the Con was to vote adoption of "fen" as the plural for "fan". The Mecon II was Cosmic Degler's visit to Rockland.

There was a con report from both (sadly not detailing the events' date) by Stanley in Fan-Tods #4 page 3, which see and note that unlike the Fancyclopedia a mere year later he used the fully-spelled less-punning names Mainecon and Mainecon, Jr. throughout, although there seems to be some interchangeability:

Three being virtually a mob in Maine fan circles, the festive occasion was fortwith labelled the Maine Stf Conference, ordinality dubious, but posibly the third or fourth such affair since Mecon I (which also had but three atteendees) was held in 1939.

See Early Conventions, Fan Visits and Fan Gatherings.

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Convention
	1943—1943

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