This weekend finishes a final week of summer vacation as I join Donna in Burlington for her largest and most important conference of the year. This event (my fifth) involves treasurers, auditors and comptrollers from all over the country. It is a smorgasbord of sharing knowledge and joining in annual fun activities including a 5K fun walk/run and a golf scrabble to help enjoy the local scenery.
This year’s most recognizable personalities involve former Vermont governor Howard Dean and the former comptroller of the United States David Walker whose Comeback America Initiative has been received favorably in many sectors as a corrective road map to these troubled economic times.
My unofficial role is the “conference manager’s lackey” helping as needed, but mostly enjoying the events and the area as I am able.
And Burlington is an absolutely lovely area to enjoy. It is a relatively small college town with a wonderful New England flavor, much like Lexington’s treasured home in the Bluegrass, except with a beautiful lake that looks out to the Adirondack mountains in New York state.
It will be a great way to help close the summer and I am grateful (again) for this opportunity to experience this great land in all of its diversity and interest.
