2006 Fall Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
October 19-21, 2006

Thursday, October 19

YLD Council Dinner (Council Members, family and significant others only) Sports Legend Museum
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $60 before 9-25; $70 after 9-26
Sponsored by: Saul Ewing, LLP

Welcome Reception – Havana Club
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Complimentary to all Meeting Registrants and Guests (not open to children) The Maryland Host Committee welcomes everyone to Baltimore at the Havana Club, an upscale nightclub. After your travels, relax in this beautifully appointed intimate setting of rich leather sofas and chairs and take advantage of this perfect place to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Food and drink specials TBD.

After Party – Power Plant Live
starting at 11:00 p.m.
Admittance is complimentary to registrants and guests, Cash Bar (not open to children). Join the Host Committee as the fun continues at Power Plant Live, just around the corner from the Havana Club. You can choose to dance the night away at Have a Nice Day Café to the DJ’s mix of current and all- time best party music that fuels an outrageous party; or sing the night away at Howl at the Moon; listen all night to a live band playing rock and roll hits in the casual comforts of a cozy cabin at The Lodge Bar; or relax in a lush tropical setting of palm trees listening to island music at Rum Shack.

Friday, October 20

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture
Tickets: $4. Friday, Saturday or Sunday with Conference Badge.
The Museum is dedicated to sharing the courageous journeys of African Americans toward freedom and self-determination. This is a place to remember struggles and to celebrate accomplishments. It serves as a beacon of pride, hope, and inspiration for all people. No visit to Baltimore should be complete without a visit to this important attraction. As you move through this architecturally significant building, you will be guided through the history and drama that formed the nation’s civil rights movement, and introduced to Maryland’s ordinary and extraordinary African Americans and their contributions. These special admittance tickets allow all attendees to experience the Museum.

National Aquarium in Baltimore
starting at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets: Refer to on-line registration form
Join YLD’ers and their families at the National Aquarium for a light lunch and an afternoon visiting hundreds of exhibits featuring more than 14,000 aquatic creatures and animals in a variety of naturalistic habitats- you are sure to find stingrays, sharks, sea turtles, iguanas and puffins, and be sure to catch the dolphin show and the newly opened Animal Planet Australia.

Dinner Dance Social Event – B&O Railroad Museum
6:30 p.m. – midnight
Tickets: $65 before 9-25; $75 after 9-26.
ALL ABOARD! Come dine and dance where America’s most important, historic and comprehensive collection or railroading memorabilia is housed, telling the story of the B&O beginning in 1829. Walk on board and see what it was like when railroads ruled! Our reception, dinner and dancing are all set among among giant locomotives restored to their original splendor. You’ll enjoy a gourmet dinner and open bar all evening. Transportation shuttles depart the Marriott beginning at 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, October 21

Special Event: Bus trip – Annapolis
1:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Take advantage of this great opportunity to visit Annapolis, Maryland’s Capital and home of the U.S. Naval Academy, to enjoy this delightful waterfront city, and its many shops, restaurants, activities and scenery. Walk along on the old brick sidewalks that served as the first peacetime capital of the nation under the Articles of Confederation. The bus leaves the Marriott at 1:15 p.m. and departs Annapolis at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday Evening, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE $35.00 per person (Attendance Limited ). No one should leave Baltimore without experiencing one of our crab fests - so join us on Saturday and together we will crack crabs at BO BROOKS, voted Baltimore's best crab house and a 40 year tradition in Baltimore. 6 kinds of steamed crabs, crab soup, barbeque chicken, crab cakes, salads, corn on the cob, complimentary beer and wine - a true feast! After dinner we'll head off to the Closing Reception at the Gin Mill! This event is made affordable by the generous sponsorship of AMA Reporting & Videoconferencing/Art Miller & Associates, www.artmiller.com.

Closing reception – Gin Mill
9:30 p.m. - midnight
Complimentary to all Meeting Registrants and Guests, Cash Bar (Not Child Friendly) Saturday night the party doesn’t end after dinner! Meet up at the Gin Mill, Canton’s popular watering hole and the place to listen to music, grab a beer and shoot a game of pool.

Thursday, October 19 – Saturday, October 21

Hospitality Suite at the Marriott Hotel
Courtesy of Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger and Hollander, LLC