FanHistoriCons are little conventions (generally a con within a con) devoted to discussing the preservation of fannish history. At FanHistoriCon 9, we decided that any fan history related-programming at Worldcon could be considered a ".5" FanHistoricon.
Convention | Location | Chairs/Comments | Date | Att. |
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FanHistoriCon I following Corflu |
Hagerstown, MD | Peggy Rae Pavlat, Joe Siclari & Bruce Pelz | May 1994 | 16 |
Held immeadiately following Corflu 11 (which was in Crystal City, VA) Dick Lynch arranged several field trips to Harry Warner, Jr.'s house |
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FanHistoriCon II at Smofcon 11 |
Burbank, CA | Bruce Pelz | December 1-4, 1994 | |
FanHistoriCon III at Midwestcon 46 |
Cincinnati, OH | Dick & Leah Smith | June 1995 | 30? |
FanHistoriCon IV at Tropicon 14 |
Florida | Joe Siclari | January 1996 | 45 |
FanHistoriCon V at Minicon 31 |
Minneapolis, MN | Joyce Scrivner | March 1996 | |
FanHistoriCon VI at Boskone 32 |
Framingham, MA | Joe Siclari Rob Hansen was a "Special Speaker," imported by the first FanHistoriCon Fan Fund |
February 14-16, 1997 | 60 |
FanhHistoriCon VII at Westercon 50 |
Seattle, WA | Don Glover the younger | July 3-6 1997 | |
FanHistoriCon VIII Bucconeer 1998 Worldcon |
Baltimore, MD | Laurie Mann Joyce Scrivner, Mary Tabasko, Randy Smith, Ann Catelli |
August 1998 | 50 |
Gary Farber suggested we put together the "Fannish Office through the Years" as a Worldcon exhibit, and so, we did. | ||||
FanHistoriCon IX 50th Midwestcon |
Cincinnati, OH | Ted White (who was unable to attend due to an injury), Roger (who had heart surgery right after Midwestcon) & Pat Sims & Joe Siclari (both of whom seemed fine, thanks!) | June 25-27, 1999 | 40? |
FanHistoriCon 9.5 Aussiecon 3 |
Australia | Joyce Scrivner | August 1999 | |
FanHistoriCon X at Tropicon 19 |
Florida | Joe Siclari & Edie Stern | November 2000 | |
Dave Langford was the FanHistoricon Special Speaker imported from England by the second FanHistoricon Fan Fund. | ||||
FanHistoriCon 10.5 Millennium Philcon |
Philadelphia | Priscilla Olson | August 2001 | |
FanHistoriCon XI ditto 14 |
Bloomington, IL | Dick & Leah Smith | October 12-14, 2001 | |
FanHistoriCon was held in Bob Tucker's hometown Jack Speer brought to the con courtesy of the Don Ford Fund |
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FanHistoriCon XII DeepSouthCon 40 |
Huntsville, AL | Tom Feller, Naomi Fisher | June 14-16, 2002 |