... While York may still have to evolve if it wants to remain as it is, perhaps they'll find the EDTCA membership would rather go back to simpler meet with members only and have the dealers go away. It may not be a big event but I'm pretty sure they never envisioned what it turned into any ways.
I've always been a proponent of the "to each their own" / "It's a big tent" school of thought. Having a large dealer presence at York never bothered me.
It would be fine to see the show shift back to how it was in the 1980's, when there were a small number of dealers, and the focus was on member to member transactions.
And if the show went back to two days, perhaps some of the table holders that were lost by adding Thursday would come back.
If the Eastern Division has to raise prices to make the show break even, then so be it. The ice cream social sounds nice, but if the show is loosing money, how can the E.D. afford to host it?
