One of the things I talked about as the keynote speaker for the 6th annual Conference on Pagan Studies at the Claremont Graduate College is the need for community. I wrote that simply writing to people through the internet is valuable, but not enough. We need to have in-person communication in order for the community to survive and thrive. I wrote: "The methodology for creating safe Neopagan community, however, is in place. In 1971, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke organized what may be the first modern U.S. occult festival in Minnesota, called Gnosticon. By 1974 he was holding the Witchmeet, perhaps the first modern U.S. Pagan festival. Over the next 35 years, the number of Pagan festivals has