Good for you Fred, hanging in there.  That is more or less what I did.  We
have tickets for just one day.... were led to believe we could only do that.
I never thought about them vaporizing at noon.  Shades of those old (and
MI3) Mission Implausable episodes.

I hear rumors that early 2007 will bring GREAT THINGS, ala Jamestowne
publicity -- spots on public TV, et al.  But at the moment I am reminded of
my early days with IBM back in the 1960's.  Demand was SO great for
computers at that point, that delivery of even the most mundane system was
one year, and often as much as two years.  IBM told the world that a lot of
time was needed to plan for the installation, and there were a lot of jokes
(some unprintable) that went round about "how great it was going to be when
it was installed."

We are at about W minus 21 (weeks) at this point, so I keep hoping to see
one of the superheroes -- CAPTAIN JAMESTOWN -- burst forth to lead us to the
promised land.

In the meantime,

Randy Cabell
The Trumpeter of Jamestowne
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Frederick Fausz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Last Thursday Night


> --OR a profound connection, since several authors are calling the Iraq
> fiasco merely the latest of America's "Indian Wars."  Hmmmm
>
> I ordered my tickets for 12-13 May recently via a very convoluted process
> of incessant click-ons to various sites, most of which were irrelevant to
> the 400th activies on "the Island."  Starting with the official Colonial
> Williamsburg website, I was as likely to get dinner reservations at The
> King's Arms as I was to see the Queen's Head!  I almost gave up--which
> probably disqualifies me as a hardy colonist who would have persisted
> through the tortures of 1607.  CW appears like the 600 pound gorilla in
> the room, and if there is a dedicated website JUST FOR JAMESTOWN
> TICKETING, I missed it amid the special packages for Busch Gardens,
> etc.  Once my purchase was finally confirmed, the site indicated that
> the tickets would be sent out shortly before May, but the CW email
> followup asked when I would pick them up, which would be a rather long
> commute from St. Louis.
>
> My tickets also read 9 AM for both days.  Any clue as to what that
> means (as in they expire by noon)?
>
> I hope the process can be streamlined or made more user-friendly soon,
> and I suspect that a lot of locals expect to drive out to the familiar
> sites
> at the last moment, sans advanced ticketing.
>
> Happy Holidays and Best Wishes to ALL
>
> Fred Fausz, in the land of raging Winter AND Summer storms and
>                  persistent power outages.  Jefferson really needs to do
>                  something about this Louisiana Purchase "wilderness"
>
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