Wednesday August 20^th
Thursday August 21^st
Friday August 22^nd
Saturday August 23^rd
Sunday August 24^th

Wednesday August 20

6:00PM – PreRegistration Packets – Lobby

Thursday August 21

7:30AM – PreRegistration Packets – Lobby
8:00AM – PreShow Excursion "Mount Vernon and Marine Corps Museum" (fee)
6:00PM – AFDCS Executive Committee – Boardroom (10th floor)
8:00PM – AFDCS/Graebner Chapter Hospitality Suite – TBD
8:30PM – AFDCS Board of Directors – Boardroom (10th floor)

Friday August 22

9:00AM – PreRegistration Packets – Lobby
10:00AM – AMERICOVER Bourse Opens
11:00AM – USPS First Day of Issue Ceremony – 2008 Forever Stamps – Tickets Lounge
10:0PM – Writing for FIRST DAYS – Dick Sine – Vienna Room
1:30PM – First Cachets Seminar (Developing a Numbering System and Identifying Cachets) – Mark Goodson – Falls Church Room
2:00PM – ACPS Seminar – First Days without a First Day Ceremony Program – Herb Trenchard – Great Falls Room
2:00PM – S.T.A.M.P. (Spouses Together Attempt Many Projects) Seminar – "Surprise! Project" (supply fee) – Denise Lazaroff – Arlington Room
3:00PM – AMERICOVER Fund Raising Auction Preview – Tickets Lounge
3:00PM - Judging and Exhibiting Illustrated Mail and First Day Covers – Alan Warren – Great Falls Room
5:00PM – AMERICOVER Fund Raising Auction – Tickets Loungue
5:00PM – AMERICOVER Bourse closes
7:00PM – AFDCS President's Banquet and Top Cachet Contest Awards (fee) – Junior Ballroom
10:00PM – AFDCS/Graebner Chapter Hospitality Suite – TBD

Saturday August 23

8:30AM – AFDCS Business Meeting and Exhibit Awards – Arlington and Great Falls Rooms
10:00AM – AMERICOVER Bourse Opens
10:00AM – Linn's Stamp News – Jay Bigalke – Vienna Room
10:00AM – Cachetmakers Association meeting – Falls Church Room
10:00AM – ASPPP Seminar "Collecting Back Numbers on Souvenir Pages" – Bruce Menia - Great Falls Room
10:00AM – Using an Access Database to Track Cachets – Cynthia Scott – Arlington Room
11:00AM – Stamp Fulfillment Services – Linda Houghtaling – Vienna, Falls Church and Great Falls Rooms
11:00AM – S.T.A.M.P. (Spouses Together Attempt Many Projects) Seminar – "Scrapbooking Gone Wild" (supply fee) – Denise Lazaroff – (participants may meet for lunch following the seminar) – Arlington Room
1:00PM – ACPS Annual Meeting – Falls Church Room
1:00PM – Cachet Contest Discussion – Tom O'Hagen – Vienna Room
1:00PM – A.T.A. Space Unit National Meeting – Capt. Grayson Merrill, speaker – Great Falls Room
1:00PM – APS Town Hall Meeting – Arlington Room
2:00PM – AAPE: An Open Forum on Exhibiting – Vienna Room
2:30PM – ACPS Auction – Falls Church Room
3:00PM – ACE Chapter Meeting – Arlington Room
3:00PM – Judges Critique – Vienna Room
3:00PM – ASPPP Annual Meeting – Great Falls Room
4:30PM – Cachetmakers Bourse – Foyer
5:00PM – AMERICOVER Bourse closes
8:00PM – AMERICOVER/ACPS/Graebner Chapter Hospitality Suite – TBD
9:00PM – Post Night Owl Bourse Box Lunch (fee) – Foyer

Sunday August 24

8:00AM – Charter/Life Member Reunion (invitation only) – Vienna Room
9:00AM – AFDCS Membership Meeting – Arlington and Great Falls Rooms
10:00AM – AMERICOVER Bourse Opens
10:00AM – S.T.A.M.P. (Spouses Together Attempt Many Projects) Seminar – "Greeting Cards Galore" (supply fee) – Denise Lazaroff – Arlington Room
10:30AM – AMERICOVER 2009 Planning Meeting – Great Falls Room
10:30AM – Original Artist Artwork by Coakley, Pickett, and Day Lowrey for Aristocrat FDCs of the Late 1930 and Early 1940s – Thomas Cox – Falls Church and Vienna Rooms
12:00PM – 7-1-71 Affair Chapter Meeting – Arlington Room
12:00PM – Byways of FDC Collecting – Alan Warren – Great Falls Room
1:00PM – Virtual Stamp Club Chapter Meeting – Great Falls Room
4:00PM – AMERICOVER Bourse Closes
6:30PM – Cookout with Magic – Fairfax Ballroom Patio

Times and locations are subject to change. Please check the AMERICOVER 2008 show program for the final schedule.