While we're waiting for our Manhattan correspondents to sober up and resume feeding us notes, this might be a good time to review the origins of this annual migration of the Keystone State's rich and powerful.
The Pennsylvania Society was founded in 1899 by 55 Pennsylvanians with business ties to New York, Andrew Carnegie among them.
The society hosts an annual black tie dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria (some of the founders were among original investors in the hotel) on the second Saturday of December.
A prominent citizen is honored at the dinner with presentation of the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievment and a $25,000 contribution to the honoree's favorite charity.
Among past honorees are George H.W. Bush, David McCullough, Chris Matthews, Joe Paterno, Andrew Wyeth, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover and Henry Ford.
The event used to be a time for cigar-chomping industrialists and backroom politicos to decide who would get nominated to office in the coming year. These days it's a giant fund-raising and schmooze fest with lawyers, lobbyists and contract-seeking corporate types wining and dining clients, prospective clients and politicians.
The dinner is the centerpiece of the weekend's events, which include scores of cocktail parties, breakfasts and lunches, which run non-stop from Friday afternoon through Sunday morning.
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