Take a chill pill, Red. I was only responding to the prior poster(s) who opined that the TCA is a business - which is untrue - and insinuated that it should be operated as a business.
That proposition is contrary to and runs afoul of the explicit purposes for which the TCA was formed in the 1950's in the first place. As a non-profit organization, you cannot simply decide one day to start operating a business and violate your own by-laws and tenents.
Maybe that's unimportant to you, but that's something, IMHO, that all TCA members should take seriously and that the public should understand.
The public has only been invited t York the last few years and, secondly, only as an accommodation to some people "screaming" to let them in. More importantly, the fact that the public can attend the event does not automatically change the TCA's primary focus and non-profit purposes into running a "for-profit" business.
It always amuses me that outsiders want to tell a private, non-profit association that's been around for over 60 years how to run their organization. If people feel so strongly about this issue, here's a thought - stop complaining and start your own freaking event - rent a fairgrounds - line up the vendors - publicize the heck out of it - charge admission - and run it as a business. And then let's see how you do.
'nuff said.
