To: MBSI'ers, Mid-Am'ers and other Guests alike,

The Mid-Am Chapter of the Music Box Society International is planing
to have its Monkey Organ Festival and Chapter Meeting in St. Charles
Missouri.  This events will take place Friday evening April 30th, and
all day Saturday May 1st 1999.

St. Charles Missouri is 15 miles West of down town St. Louis, Missouri,
on Interstate 70.  The setting of this Monkey Organ Festival will be
the Main Street Historic District of St. Charles, set on the banks of
the Missouri river.

This wonderful historic district is 1-1/2 mile long  and  has been a
viable settlement since 1769.  The corner stone of this area is the
wonderfully restored first State Capital building of Missouri, (1821-
1826).  The river town of St. Charles was the location of the beginning
of the Lewis & Clark exploration of the Louisiana Purchase of 1804 and
is the site of the Lewis & Clark Rendezvous / Heritage Days the third
weekend every May.

We hope to have an event that will feature at least 30 organ grinders
and instruments and have an attendance of 120 members.

This notice is the first of many updates I hope to offer up-until the
event in May.  In the near future ALL MBSI, Mid-Am Chapter members will
all be receiving a registration packet.  All others who might want to
attend will need to request one of these packets.  When they are
assembled, we will use this list to send registration packets to NON-
Chapter Members.

Requests should be sent to Meeting Chairman:

     Gary G. Stevenson
     801 Eichelberger
     St. Louis, Mo 63111-1648

"E" mail can be sent to:   gstevens@dtd1.slps.k12.mo.us

Gary Stevenson