I'll second Steve's (pensbydesign) welcome and encouragement to come to the meeting the following week at Woodcraft!! There are a great bunch of folks who can teach you a lot about pens and all sorts of other turnings.
I'm planning on being at the wood show as part of another local club, but I'm not sure when that will be, I had signed up for both Saturday and Sunday, but I just learned that there are other commitments I really should be at Saturday if they can arrange for others from the group to cover Saturday.
If it is set up similar to last year, one of the major vendors will have people helping folks learn to turn pens. If they do, introduce yourself to them from here, as I believe several of them, if not all, are around here...