* Southwestercons
  - 1966 convention (July 23-24, 1966)
    > site was Hotel Southland in Dallas
    > chair was Larry Herndon
  - 1967 Southwestercon
  - DallasCon (June 21-23, 1968)
    > site was Hotel Southland in Dallas
    > co-chairs were Tom Reamy and Larry Herndon
  - 1969 convention (June 20-22, 1969)
    > site was a Ramada Inn in Houston
    > program was primarily comics-oriented

* Other conventions
  - Aggiecon (April 21-24, 1969)
    > sponsored by Cepheid Variable, the sf club at Texas A&M University, in
      College Station, Texas
    > GoH was Harlan Ellison
    > was the first science fiction convention ever sponsored by a college or
      a college affiliate student organization, yet another sign that science
      fiction had come of age during the 1960s
  - Long Beach Science Fiction Convention
    > held in 1963 and 1964, in Long Beach, California
    > 1964 event featured Forry Ackerman and Ib Melchior as guests, and was
      held at a local restaurant
    > these seem to have been mini-conventions for teen-aged movie fans, among
      the first of the media conventions that would become popular in
      succeeding decades
  - Penn-Jerseycon
    > held August 3-6, 1964, at Pete Jackson's home in Danville, Pennsylvania
    > not known how many attended
    > seemed mostly to be a weekend party, though a one-shot fanzine CLAPTRAP
      also resulted
    > after it ended, one of the attendees, Richie Benyo, was keen for a
      sequel in 1965, but the idea seemes to have evaporated before another
      could be held
  - 1964 New York Labor Day Party
    > not really a convention, was held for New York fans who were either
      boycotting the 1964 Pacificon because of the Breen fracas, or who could
      not afford to attend
    > hosted by John and Perdita Boardman
    > 30 people attended
    > people played Diplomacy, discussed Lord Darcy's world with Randy
      Garrett, argued politics, and generally shot the bull
    > was deemed a good party: event lasted 24 hours, and the police only came
      by twice
  - a similar party, dubbed the NonCon, was held opposite the 1968 worldcon
    > site was a Holiday Inn in Paramus, New Jersey
    > organizer was Fred Lerner
    > about a dozen fans were there, including Walter Breen and Marion Zimmer
      Bradley
    > was a total relaxacon with no programming whatsoever; highlight of the
      event was a phone call from Berkeley, which came in at 3:00am local time
      on Sunday, Sept. 1, with news of the Hugo Awards winners
  - 1st Conference on the Bibliography of Science Fiction
    > took place at Columbia University in New York City, in March 1969
    > conceived and organized by Fred Lerner
      -- (mini bio of Fred here)
      -- as Lerner later recalled, "During the 1968-1969 academic year, I was
         a student in the School of Library Service at Columbia University. 
         Whenever possible, I did my term papers on some aspect of science
         fiction.  My interest in SF was enthusiastically approved by my
         professors; when I entered the doctoral program a few years later, I
         was urged to do my dissertation on science fiction."
      -- as part of his course work, he decided to do an independent study
         course on the bibliography of science fiction
         >> this gave him the idea of a conference on the topic
    > conference took place in the Harkness Auditorium at Columbia's Harkness
      Library, on a Saturday morning (exact date?)
      -- the date was specifically chosen to be the same day as the annual
         ESFA Open Meeting in nearby Newark, New Jersey, and the same weekend
         as the first ever STAR TREK convention, also in Newark
      -- according to Lerner, "There was enough going on that weekend to
         justify several out-of-towners travelling to New York."
    > it worked; for whatever reason, several out-of-town writers and fans
      were there
      -- Tony Lewis, from Boston, gave a paper titled "Indexing the Science
         Fiction Magazines"
      -- other out-of-town attendees included Darko Suvin from McGill
         University in Montreal, and Mark Owings from Baltimore
      -- two other notable who attended were Alastair Cameron and Sol Malkin
         >> Cameron, who had left fandom years earlier, had produced the
            Fantasy Classification System (when? for what organization?)
         >> Malkin, editor of AB BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY, was accompanied by his
            ever-present brandy-filled hollow cane
    > the conference was successful enough that Lerner concluded a new
      interdisciplinary organization about science fiction was desirable
      -- Lerner began corresponding with Tom Clareson, whom he had met the
         previous year at a Modern Language Association conference
         >> (explain why Clareson is notable here, very briefly)
      -- eventual result was the establishment of the Science Fiction Research
         Association, in the early 1970s
    > there were two subsequent conferences in this series before SFRA came
      officially into existence
      -- second Conference was held in conjunction with the 1970 Boskone
      -- third Conference was in 1971, in conjunction with that year's Marcon
      -- SFRA annual conventions incorporated bibliographical issues after
         that, and these conferences were discontinued
  - Secondary Universe
    > held Friday and Saturday, May 10-11, 1968, at the University of
      Wisconsin at Milwaukee
    > had originally been intended as a two-hour symposium on "Imagination in
      the Theatre Arts", it expanded into a two-day conference comprising all
      areas of science fiction and fantasy
    > began on Friday evening with two plays by Ray Bradbury, "To the Chicago
      Abyss" and "Season of Disbelief"
      -- the first was more or less a fantasy, while the second didn't seem to
         have any fantastic elements in it
    > on Saturday morning, the keynote speaker was Professor Clyde S. Kilby,
      who had written several books on C. S. Lewis
      -- his topic was "Morals and Literature", with specific references to
         Lewis and Tolkien
    > after that, the conference broke up into several special interest groups
      -- Tolkien working group
      -- group on sf in television and in the movies
         >> Gene DeWeese gave a talk
      -- third group concerned itself with "The New Thing"
         >> Samuel Delaney was a speaker in this session
    > luncheon speaker was Judith Merril, who talked about how inclusive
      science fiction had become, in terms of subject matter, comprising
      everything from fairy tales to so-called "hard" science fiction
    > after lunch, three more special interest groups held sessions
      -- one dealt with sf in poetry and music
      -- another was concerned with "The Twentieth-Century Romance"
      -- final session had the topic of "Science and Literature"
         >> Ed Meskys participated in this session, substituting for Bruce
            Pelz who at the last minute had been unable to attend
    > three late afternoon sessions were also held
      -- one of these sessions had the topic of mass media and science
         fiction, and featured a talk by Phil Klass, otherwise known as
         science fiction writer William Tenn
    > conference was deemed successful enough that another was held the next
      year
  - Secondary Universe II
    > held October 31-November 2, 1969, once again at the University of
      Wisconsin at Milwaukee
    > once again, hard to categorize; not really a science fiction convention
      at all, nor was it totally a conference this time, even though it had 25
      speakers; certainly it had more of a convention atmosphere than the
      previous year's conference had
      -- as with the previous year's conference, there was several
         conferences/conventions in one: Society for Creative Anachronism,
         Science Fiction Research Association, and Tolkien Society of America
      -- theme of conference seemed to be `ecological problems and their
         solutions', but any connection with SCA and the Tolkien Society
         appeared to be tenuous at best
    > events/program
      -- at any rate, conference opened with keynote address by C. A. Muses
         (editor of the JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS) titled "Whither Technology
         or Will It Wither?", which proposed a deeper understanding of the
         human mind and consciousness as a solution for many of man's problems
      -- conference promptly split into its component parts after that
      -- there were other scholarly talks; Harry Stubbs described the content
         of many of them as "the O-Gloomy-Doom sort bemoaning pollution,
         overpopulation, etc."
         >> Stubbs changed his talk in reaction to all the pessimism, and
            spoke about "Man as an Energy Addict", and proposed several
            technological solutions should the world's energy supply ever run
            low
      -- SFRA held meetings, to start forming itself into what would become a
         prestigious science fiction academia organization in later years
      -- SCA sponsored a Halloween costume ball, with the stipulation that
         costumes had to be pre-1660

* Canadian conventions
  - Fan Fair I (July 29-Aug 1, 1968)
    > also known as Toronto Triple Fan Fair
      -- sponsored by OSFiC, Memory Lane, the Canadian Academy of Comic Book
         Collectors, and the Markam Village Film Club
      -- focus of convention was three-fold: science fiction, films, and
         comics
    > held at 594 Markam Street, in part of city known as Markam Street
      Village
      -- outdoor convention, held in tents
      -- convention attendees paid $1 for `passport' which entitled them to
         enter the tents and houses where events took place
         >> passport depicted a three-headed dragon chasing hippie and beatnik
            artists through the streets, with art canvases flying in all
            directions
    > organized and managed by George Henderson
    > GoHs were Roger Zelazny and Stan Lee
    > programme:
      -- Ken Smookler chaired a debate by Zelazny, Stan Lee, and Phyllis
         Gottlieb on the movie 2001
      -- retrospective talks on Tarzan, the history of pictorial SF, and
         adult comics
      -- STAR TREK display
      -- film showings on two wrinkled sheets stapled to a house wall
  - second Fan Fair, in August 1970, held opposite the Heidelberg worldcon
    > billed as unofficial alternative to 1970 worldcon, with approval from
      the Heicon's committee
      -- this made it, unofficially, the first North American Science Fiction
         Convention, or NASFIC, as they came to be called, which were
         conventions done as an alternative to Worldcon in years when the
         Worldcon was in some far off corner of the world outside of North
         America
    > attendance was about 400
    > site was King Edward Hotel
    > guests included Isaac Asimov and Anne McCaffrey
    > rather than do third Fan Fair, OSFiC decided to bid for 1973 Worldcon
      -- committee formed around John Millard and Peter Gill, won the bid at
         the 1971 Boston worldcon
      -- however, Torcon business sapped OSFiC strength, nearly killed the
         club
  - KingCon (1967)
    > held in Kingston, Ontario
    > was basically a meeting arranged between OSFiC's Ottawa branch and
      Kingston's Queens University club