Brochures Asked For More Than Once:
- Polar Express
- NE Maps
- Nestlenook Farm Inn
- Red Jacket (the one with the indoor water park)
- Hunting Digests!
- Ski NH!
- The Spalding Inn
- Merrill Farm Resort (N. Conway)
- North Conway INFO guide
- Motorcycle Loop Map (multiple times, I think CT had one)
- Adventure Suite (backpage of Adventure in the White Mountain brochure)
- Hiking Trails, Hiking Trails, Hiking Trails!!!
- Working Farms to Visit (have: Ag Brochure & Inn at East Hill Farm)
- Loon Mountian WINTER (not Summer)
- No past SUMMER info, people are looking for winter (or specific i.e. zip line, etc.)
- St. Gaudins (National Park Ranger brought us a handful--good enough)
- Pad maps of State Historic Properties (the ones Bob Fairbanks brought with him)
Other Needs/Wants/Suggestions:
- Recipies for food made in the building
- Sun blinds for the right windows
- Info for where the musicians should go/do/put stuff
- Good smelling stuff for inside vac bag
- Keep our eye on http://www.bensonsanimalfarm.com for something new next year
- Standardize Brochure sizes (no postcards and booklets)
- Need safety pins (to thread aprons)
- First Aid Kit needs to be screwed (with a hook) to the wall
- Buy paper towels
- No inserts in the brochures (they fall out and get detatched)
- Paint booth
- Clean rug
- Wash floor
- Ponchos with VISITNH.GOV on them (for at least one rain storm)
- Use the the demo area (in front of our booth) as a photo op location w/ Pic & "New Hampshire" -- maybe www.visitnh.gov somewhere... as the backdrop
- Next year on the side of the building (where the covered bridge is) let's do pumpkin carving and bring all the pumpkins to the Keene Pumpkin Festival! Great cross promotion for the NH Building at The Big E in Western NH.
- Need landing page for input of visitor guide orders
- Enable Monitor to hook up to computers for PowerPoint presentations
- Liquid Bandaids
- More Paper Towels
- More Cups
- More IB/Alieve
- SPRING CLEANING BEFORE OPENING!
- Mirror in backroom
- Clearly present State Maps
- Fur oil in nooks
- Pumpkin, indian corn, etc. displayed on top of island
- Golf & Ski guides
Comments from those who can not attend the Debriefing
- We had a good time and enjoyed working with all the other volunteers and staff there. The whole event is so very well organized... Congratulations to all of you!!! Marge/Ray Fraser
- I can’t think of one thing I’d change…well, maybe have the Big E and NH Building get a computer network that worked reliably and allowed the printer to be networked rather than directly connected.
Other than that, I can’t think of one thing that I’d change. The Desk and Crazy Corner worked fine. The brochure racks worked fine. The volunteers were friendly, enthusiastic and helpful. The supervisors were great. The orientation materials were helpful and I felt better about being able to run to the bathroom and not feel guilty for leaving my post.
There was enough of pretty much everything except maybe the wooden coins which always seem to go fast. I appreciated the water in the back room. There was a wide variety of videos to play on the big screen. The discount at the NH Ag booth was helpful, I ate a lot of beef stew in a bread bowl and my wife liked their ice cream. OK, OK, I liked their ice cream, too.
The NH artists and performers were great, friendly and willing to talk about their art. I bought a bunch of soap from That Soap Guy and am currently enjoying their peppermint soap in the shower. I didn’t win millions in the NH Lotto. Andrea loved the large bag of NH Kettle Corn I brought home, as well as her furry mittens, furry slippers, furry socks (hmm, is there a trend here?) bought to ward off the winter chill. The binets were great, too.
Guests were able to find what they needed and 99.9% of them went on their way happy.
Thank you for everything! Bob
- Thoughts............as my Mom would always say " Everything is under control"..........I thought everything was fine the previous years I volunteered..........have an enjoyable afternoon..........Marge
- Our only comment is that our bosses were real slave driving ogres who have already ordered us to sign up for the same shifts next year! Help!!!! Ed & Hanni G
2009 Big E Debrief - 11/6/09
- Kayaking Info - Fresh and salt water
- Handout-compilation of suggested guides - sponsor?
- Post cards, calendars
- Research Chronicle, show schedule prior to Big E
- Loop Chronicle episodes on TV-closed captioning
- More Concord Info
- Both computers pm printer and WiFi
- Building - have wildlife exhibit/EMS exhibit or AMC
- Golf Guide / GNW
- Ski NH rack card
- Colleges
- Orientation - include reference tool to answer questions re: popular requests, cheat sheet
- Booth brochue arrangement - alphabitize
- Mileage chart at counter
- Stamps - with websites etc.
- Parking shuttle, grounds rules and regulations
- Big E pad maps