Folks:

A hearty congratulations to the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, which announced at this year's NAD conference in Philidelphia, Pa., that Kentucky will be hosting the 2012 NAD conference!  I'm sure more details will follow soon, although it was noted that the conference will be held in conjunction with the very successful DeaFestival held biennially in Kentucky.  You can read the summary of the 2010 opening night ceremony events here: http://www.nad.org/blogs/tayler-mayer/nad-50th-biennial-conference-opening-ceremony

The mention of the Kentucky announcement can be found in the 4th paragraph down.  Time to put our thinking caps on and help make the 51st conference as memorable as I am sure the 50th was for the Philly attendees.  I look forward to getting to attend my first NAD conference finally, and hope to see many of my friends from the Gallaudet days there.  Maybe by thern, Kentucky will be even more accessible in terms of movie theaters, etc. than we are now.  Louisville is a vibrant and deaf-aware community with lots of things to do.  As a former resident of that city (twice!), I believe conference attendees will be pleased.

As I learn more details, I will share (what I can, anyway) here on this blog.  Now, let's have a very successful 2010 Kentucky DeaFestival in Horse Cave, Ky!!!!!!!

Eddie