Bryan,
I will try to keep that in mind when we next plan a party; to post a note in this group. But actually from where you mention you are, there might be a closer, or at least as close group of tickle fans in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, or Columbus (I know there is in Columbus).
While we who host try to post notices of where we are having parties, it is really more up to those interested in going to parties to look in the geo locations/sites that these are announced. In this TMF forum, we even have our own local sub-group list Tethers and Feathers, which describes where we focus our general party neighborhood.
Also, over the years, we've found that most people want to go to parties that somebody else hosts. Quite often people will go for decades waiting for that somebody else to host parties. It really takes only one initiator, and then some others may come.
Spenser
That's how this 'lil community has built itself since about 1996.