The complete opposite of yesterday, the weather stunk with wind and rain all day. The museum was dead until around 2:30/3 when visitors started coming in. It was then a steady flow until about 4:30/4:45. I ended up having 20ish visitors come through, in mostly groups of three today. Most were very interested and all were one or two adults with either one or two children with them. Bill I. stopped by in the afternoon (good thing he did!) and ended up giving a couple tours as several of the trios that came into the museum were only a few minutes behind each other. One couple related to their grandson how they used punch cards in college, one gentleman remembered the Univac from his Navy days. It also worked out well that the first visitors showed up AFTER Roddy from next door and I finished our pizza lunch :-) This will likely be my last time as docent until the late fall/early winter season sees my business slow down. Looking forward to quieter times at work in a 4 or 5 months and some enjoyable time at the museum! Enjoy the summer everyone, I'll see you in November!! Tony Sent from my iPhone
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The complete opposite of yesterday, the weather stunk with wind and rain all day. The museum was dead until around 2:30/3 when visitors started coming in. It was then a steady flow until about 4:30/4:45.
I ended up having 20ish visitors come through, in mostly groups of three today. Most were very interested and all were one or two adults with either one or two children with them.
Nice! Bill I. stopped by in the afternoon (good thing he did!) and ended up
giving a couple tours as several of the trios that came into the museum were only a few minutes behind each other.
It does help on busy days to have a second docent.
This will likely be my last time as docent until the late fall/early winter season sees my business slow down.
Thanks so much for filling in for docent so much in the past few months. It has given Evan and myself a much need break. We're hope to start training new docents and get other docents back into the rotation.
Looking forward to quieter times at work in a 4 or 5 months and some enjoyable time at the museum!
We look forward to seeing you again soon! -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation
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