| The Birth of a Blog |
01/08/2009 |
Welcome to the very first entry in what we hope to be a very informative and entertaining pirate blog or as we like to call it, a BLAAAAARG!
It's probably the best way to archive our events, so we're going for it.
First on our agenda is the formal announcement of a full blown Pirate Festival. The planning stages actually started a few years ago when the Club was presided over by Eric the Terrible. Eric has since stepped down as Club President and has moved on to bigger piracy. He's taken up public office here in Fernandina Beach as a City Councilman. Now that we have 'one of our own' in local government, we expect that he will insist on all of us Pirates to address him as Admiral or at least by the name he uses in public, Eric Childers. Eric the Terrible Councilman doesn't quite work well if you ask me.
Back to the planning of this Pirate Festival... Current Club President, Lace the Looter has been busy trying to take Eric's original concept and create an actual plan on paper. Lace has drafted up a basic agenda from various sources, loaded with many ideas and suggestions for this Pirate Festival. This should help to jumpstart a collective brainstorming session among our Membership at one of our meetings.
Of course we will have to do our homework before we even start the actual planning to approach the City in the process of permits etc. However, we consider ourselves blessed around here when it comes to that kind of stuff. The City of Fernandina Beach, FL, the City Council and City Events Cooridinator, Susan Hurley all take their jobs very seriously. Well, as seriously as they can on a beautiful, friendly, little island. Around here, 'being serious' translates into making every event a success.
As our Club moves into the planning stages we will keep you up to date with some of the developments and highlights of our very first Pirate Festival here on Amelia Island. Meanwhile, the Fernandina Pirates Club begins our annual preparations for the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival (always the first weekend in May) as the Shrimp Festival is near and dear to our hearts.
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