Comments and anecdotes about the event:
This was one of our best presentations since the club's inception. The speaker, Evan Lewis, had spent over a year working in the West Virginia University Planetarium, where he gave weekly public presentations, as well as tours for school field trips and other groups. This really showed as he answered complicated questions from experienced amateur astronomers, less experienced adults, and children with equal enthusiasm and replies that matched the questioners knowledge level. The sprinkling of humor throughout his presentation created a relaxed atmosphere. One of the interesting historical facts was that pulsars were first discovered by a woman, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, while she was a post-graduate student at New Hall, England. Her academic advisor, however, won the Nobel Prize for the discovery, even though he first discouraged her investigation of what he assured her was an Earthly artifact. It was only in later years that she gained the reputation that she deserved.