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Re: Two weeks to Mystic!
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jun 5, 01:35 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jun 5, 01:35 -0400
I would also like to attend some event like this. Do they happen only in summer? Is it possible to predict them more than 2 weeks in advance? Alex On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Greg R. wrote: > > Frank wrote: > > > The "Celestial Navigation Celebration" is just two weeks away! > > Is this an annual event by any chance? I would love to attend something like > this, but work (and other scheduling conflicts) precludes going this year - > when is the next one after this scheduled? > > -- > GregR > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Reed"> To: > Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:16 PM > Subject: Two weeks to Mystic! > > > > The "Celestial Navigation Celebration" is just two weeks away! I look > > forward to seeing you all there. It's shaping up to be quite an event. > The Senior > > Curator of Mystic Seaport, Bill Peterson, has stepped forward to help > conduct > > tours of the museum's Collections Research Center (where we'll see some > nice > > old navigational instruments). This is a good case of the "if you build > it, > > they will come" scenario. I didn't ask the museum management to help us > out > > since I did not want to burden them with work (or myself with > bureaucratic > > wrangling), but once they realized how impressive this meeting might turn > out to > > be, they simply had to jump on-board. > > > > Additionally, we now have a location for our Saturday night group dinner. > > It's an unremarkable restaurant called "Jamms" with really good food and > good > > prices, very close to Mystic Seaport and the motels. Everything > picturesque > > with an ocean-view is booked for June weddings. Ken Gebhart, well-known > to the > > list as the Founder and Owner of Celestaire, will be our dinner speaker. > > > > There are many other speakers and events planned for the weekend. For > > details, please visit www.fer3.com/Mystic2006 . It is not too late to > join us, by > > the way. Southwest flies to Providence which is just 40 minutes from > Mystic > > Seaport and frequently has excellent low fares at the last minute. > > > > -FER > > 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. > > www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars > > >