Awards & Recognitions: The Prestigious Plumb Bob Award

Originally a novelty award, created in 1985 as part of a joke relating to the Surveying tool of a Plumb Bob, over the years the award has gained in prestige and become a serious honor for the recipient. This award is unique among those given annually (other than the 2020 Lost Conference, actually held virtually due to the COVID Pandemic) in that the recipient has complete discretion over who the subsequent winner will be. Another tradition is that each winner is expected to provide some "enhancement" to the award before passing it along. Some enhancements are affixed to the award itself, while others are done to the case, which itself was an earlier enhancement to the award. Enhancements may be personal, humorous, memorial (to a deceased former recipient), or some combination of those...