Monday, October 5, 2009

St. AuGHOSTine Wrap Up !


Thank you for everyone for all of your help and assistance over the weekend.

Special thanks to our speakers and guides: Erick Boussarhane, Murray Silver, Chris Moon, Dusty Smith, Stacey Jones, Mark Nesbitt, Father David Price, and Gloria Young. What a tremendous amount of experience and ideas were shared ! Thanks Dusty for a special event on Thursday evening.

Thank you to Steve Williams, Kevin Hull, Frank Perrick, and Claire Castillo for the guiding assistance to the group. Thanks to L&W Catering, the St. Augustine Boating Club, the Holiday Inn- Historic District, and to Meredith, Pam, and Sara at the St. Augustine Light House.


As always, we want to hear your comments and about your experiences. Please click on the comment box below this post.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

A quick note to Bill Sharpe and Tampa Ghost Watchers:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a great event. You have such interesting people in your group and it was a pleasure to speak with many of you. I enjoyed being a speaker and seeing what the East Coast looks and feels like. Whew!! Such heat. But overall the event was such fun and I appreciated being part of it.

Keep up the great work you are all doing.

gloria young

Fiona said...

Bill,
You did a GREAT job hosting this event ! I loved every minute of it,even though I was sick & missed out on Sat eve events. Your Speakers were the BEST....every one was so cool and in different ways. The food was great and great entertainment was an added bonus. I'll never get tired of visiting St AuGhostine....what a beautiful historic location...a great time with awesome fellow ghost-hunters !
Thanks to you all !
Claire

Steve said...

Bill,
Thanks for your hard work and dedication in making St. AuGHOSTine happen. Thanks also to all the great speakers who participated. I know how much behind the scenes work go into making events like this happen. I also know that some people are going to complain no matter the quality of the event simply because they enjoying finding SOMETHING to complain about.

The line-up of speakers was excellent. It's too bad more people didn't avail themselves of the speakers as I thought the information and ideas shared during the presentations was invaluable. As Fr. Price pointed out, the size of the conference also gave everyone great opportunities to speak with the presenters -- something that doesn't happen in the "mega" conferences.

The tours/investigations were also very good. I'm not sure everyone knows how difficult it is to get into the lighthouse after hours following the visit by a certain television show. I think several of us who were not walking around yelling for ghosts to appear on demand, but instead quietly looked around, had experiences of some sort.

All in all, I thought the conference was well-organized, well-executed and a great value. I'm looking forward to next year already!
- Steve S.