Quote Originally Posted by davedove
Todd is right. I've found that most people, myself included, tend not to remember if an event is occurring unless it falls within their own sphere of interests.
Or at least in our local case, the news media does a poor job of letting folks know that something is even going on. Our Scottish society has a heck of a time getting the local "fishwrap" to even publish our press releases (and I learned how to write them at university with my journalism minor!), and when we have special events at the battlefield, many times the news media will show up on the last day, and then there will follow a couple days of phone calls from folks asking when the next special event is going on. Many times, the media has to "pick and choose", and can't cover everything, in fairness to them. (Please don't think I'm generalizing all media with the "Springfield standard"!)

Cheers,

Todd