Jane, membership provides so much more than annual meeting attendance. It supports the Pattern and Source Print Database (now well past 10,000 patterns); the superb Bulletin; a huge number of free downloads of articles; the only comprehensive source of transferware-related events; and a whole lot more. As to the annual meetings, the cost covers hotel, most meals, special trips to view collections (bus costs), museum entry fees, and speaker fees. And as you note, members can choose which parts of the meetings they wish to attend by registering as "day-trippers". Sorry we can't always have the meetings in Pennsylvania, as we have members from throughout the country and indeed the world.
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