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Re: "Longitude Found" Presentation
From: Stan K
Date: 2015 Sep 13, 20:15 -0400
From: Stan K
Date: 2015 Sep 13, 20:15 -0400
Frank,
Just got home from a day with the grandson, who is also spending the night, so I probably won't have the strength to do anything this week. Just kidding - I'll be there on Thursday. I just called the restaurant and got a recording, so I'll call again tomorrow.
Too bad Herbert won't be able to make it, but I recall that Mark Coady is from Noank. I also remember someone from the Stonington area at one of the Nav weekends, but who it was escapes me.
I should be able to lend a hand at at least some of your fall classes if you think I could help out. We can talk on Thursday. Are we thinking about dinner or drinks or what?
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 13, 2015 1:52 am
Subject: [NavList] Re: "Longitude Found" Presentation
From: Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 13, 2015 1:52 am
Subject: [NavList] Re: "Longitude Found" Presentation
Hi Stan,
You wrote:
"http://www.mysticseaport.org/event/longitude-found/?enews
It might be an opportunity for some of us locals to get together."
"http://www.mysticseaport.org/event/longitude-found/?enews
It might be an opportunity for some of us locals to get together."
Seems like a great idea! This Thursday evening? I don't think it's a capacity-limited venue (the big room at the "Latitude 41" restaurant). It should be possible to "register" on the day of the presentation, but I will make sure. I'm in. Stan, you're in, right? By the way, Herbert is somewhere in the Pacific, I think. Who else is joining us??
Of course, Richard Dunn has been a "NavList member" with all the perks and privileges of that august office for many years. So we should certainly have a NavList contingent for this presentation.
I put some effort last Spring into organizing a NavList+ event at Mystic Seaport, tentatively called "Longitude Day", which would have been a NavList meeting as well as something useful to the museum and tied to the opening of the NMM's travelling Longitude exhibit (which is the focus of Richard Dunn's presentation and opens on Saturday, September 19). Unfortunately, that got stuck in the usual swampy mire of bureaucracy and sank.
I do have a bunch of classes and workshops at Mystic Seaport this Fall connected with longitude in one way or another and designed to interface/connect/amplify the concepts of the "Longitude" exhibit. The schedule is more or less as I arranged it. This is one area where Mystic Seaport excels. They prefer that I design the curriculum, build a schedule, and do all the work to create these classes and then teach them. Works for them, and it works for me. Of course, among others, I am repeating my "19th Century Celestial" class and my "Lunars" class this Fall. And sure, it's just a lunars class. Can study that anywhere, right? ... Uh, well, actually, this is probably the only place on Earth where you can spend a weekend specifically devoted to learning about the principles, history, and practice of lunars. And how terrific is it that the NMM's exhibit on longitude is going to be at Mystic Seaport, too, this Fall and Winter!
Frank Reed
ReedNavigation.com / Clockwork Mapping
Conanicut Island USA
ReedNavigation.com / Clockwork Mapping
Conanicut Island USA
