EOGN Dinner After the Conference

For years I have been hosting dinners for newsletter readers after the close of major genealogy conferences. This year's FGS conference was no exception: the conference ended at 6:00 PM. At 7:00 PM, 43 hungry newsletter readers descended on Jasper White's Summer Shack, a restaurant across the street from the conference hotel.

I live only a few miles from this year's conference location, and the Summer Shack has long been one of my favorite seafood restaurants. I have eaten there many times. Thanks to its convenient location within a one-minute walk from the conference hotel, I was able to share my enthusiasm with many other genealogists.

I saw a large quantity of shrimp, oysters, clams, fish, calamari, salads, and at least one steak get delivered to the table. Bob McLaren had a lobster. Bob is well-known for wearing his Scottish kilt at genealogy conferences; this year we had an opportunity to see him simultaneously wearing a kilt and a lobster bib!

Barbara Grempler won the "contest" after the dinner; her meal was paid for.

If you would like to see pictures of happy genealogists trying to eat all the seafood in Boston, take a look at http://blog.eogn.com/photos/fgs2006dinner.

The pictures there are thumbnails; double-click on any photo to see the full-sized photograph. If you would like to save one or more photos to your own hard drive, right-click on the picture and select "Save As…"

To everyone who attended: thanks for making Saturday evening my personal highlight of the week.

Comments

[Robin Ryan]

Hi Dick,

I am Robin Ryan, I was Jim's date at your dinner. I just wanted to say what a great time we had, and to thank you for the invite. You are such a brilliant man, and I hope to see you again in the genealogy world.

Keep Digging :)

Robin

[Dick Eastman]

Hi Robyn. It's nice to "see" you here also. Thanks for the kind words.

Will I see you at next year's conference???

- Dick Eastman

[Robyn Ryan]

Hi,

Yes Dick, you can count on me being there!

My goal is to be able to travel to all the conferences. I also would love to be much more involved in the genealogy world. If you have any suggestions for me, I would love to hear back from you. Have a wonderful afternoon.

Robyn