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Two weeks to Mystic!
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 19:16 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 19:16 EDT
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
