I can't say enough about how well everything went this past weekend at the first annual Chestertown Book Festival. I guess we were all planning for the worst-case-scenario, but it felt as though everything just fell into place. Here are a few fun numbers to provide proof of this declaration:
After totaling the number of people in attendance at each of our 38 events, we had a turnout of just under 1,000 (non-unique visitors, of course--that's web-speak for repeat attendees).
And when I emptied out the two donation boxes that we had carried around with us on Friday evening and all day Saturday, I tell you, it was like Christmas morning. All together, people donated $420 for the funding of next year's Festival!
If you'd like more visual gratification, there are pictures from the Festival on The Chestertown Spy and on volunteer photographer Nick Smerker's Flickr page.
Our participants were fabulous, our volunteers were wonderful, our venue hosts were fantastic, and our visitors were, well, the perfect audience. Thank you to everyone who helped us to make this possible! You did such a great job that I think we now have no choice but give a repeat performance next year and the year after and as long as we can, I think.
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