Lets say that the average number of unique visitors to the website on a Sunday is about 375. As you can see the weekend excitement somewhat tops that. I even received an email from someone in Britain asking to buy the new artwork for the festival!
There were religious websites that picked up the story, steamy rag sites that picked up the story, and for an entire weekend the ubiquitous whining about beavers chewing trees or flooding yards comment was actually the minority. People saw beavers as family members, which is probably useful on the quixotic quest for a world that doesn’t kill them.
Oh, and there’s this…
Apparently the reward from youtube for getting 50,000 hits in a weekend isn’t a marching band or a commemorative tshirt, but an annoying ADVERTISEMENT placed directly at the beginning of all your hard work. This is the WRONG kind of reward people! Maybe we should have stopped at 49,500?
Still, it’s a friendly way to face monday. Let’s move on and note that I took down last months “who’s Killing beavers Now?” because Mike Callahan wrote me this morning to say that the Saugus golf course HIRED him to install a flow device and there IS NO CURRENT beaver killing story to take its place! I replaced it with festival ads and this weekend I revised the festival promo, using the original Martinez Beaver Ballad from Mark Comstock. Let’s see if I can get them to run it on the local channel!
