The event for which I built a ton of U-Boat model kits rolled around last night, and the kits, which served as centerpieces, were a hit. My co-worker's husband did a fabulous job of panting the subs a gun-metal gray.
It was all for a medical staff dinner at my day job featuring The Shadow Divers as speakers.
The divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, told my co-worker, the event's planner, that they'd never seen model kits used in any events to which they'd been invited to speak.
For their presentation, they discussed their discovery of an unidentified U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey and the seven-year effort to explore the wreck and find some identifying artifact. It was ultimately identified as U869. (That site includes a list and picture of the crew members who died aboard the ship.)
The divers showed videos from PBS and History Channel documentaries about their efforts to create a sense of being-there.
The cool part, from my perspective, was that afterwards, when the divers started signing books physicians began picking up model kits to have them sign.
I hadn't expected that, so I nabbed one of my best ones and hung around until they'd finished with the doctors to get autographs on it.
"You put a lot of care into this," Richie Kohler said as he passed it on to his partner.
John Chatterton looked up at Christine who was with me. "You realize he's now about this close to being a U-Boat fanatic," he laughed.
All in all, a cool evening, and a nice display item for my office.
3 comments:
That sounds like a lot of fun. I would never have thought of getting the models autographed either.
Speaking of U-Boats, did you ever read McCammon's "Night Boat?"
Wow. Cool!
Cool - glad it went well. :)
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