Comments and anecdotes about the event:
Weather was windy and cloudy with intermittent rain. Children would come up to the telescopes and want to look through them, but they were not setup for observing, only to show the difference between the two basic types. One telescope didn't even have an eyepiece, but the kids would get down at the bottom of the Newtonian reflector and try to look through from the end. We had a display set up comparing the mass of the planets using milk jugs and sand. Kids enjoyed it and found the jug representing Jupiter very heavy to lift, while we had to put tape under several of the lighter ones to keep them on the table in the wind. We also had physical demonstrations of the distance between the Moon and the Earth. Our table wasn't as busy as the ones that had more hands-on and higher technology things for the kids to do.