'Furry Fandom Conventions' needs information

Fred Patten says:

This is a last call for information about furry conventions. For the past two years, I have been compiling a history of all furry conventions throughout the world from 1989 through the end of 2015. My book, Furry Fandom Conventions, has been accepted by an academic publisher, McFarland. It covers 113 furry conventions in North and South America, Asia, Australasia and Europe. The manuscript is currently up to 278 pages. My deadline for finishing is March 1, 2016.

Most of my missing information is for details that happened at the conventions, such as attendance totals, the number of fursuiters in the Fursuit Parade, or the amount of the charity donation; therefore what was published in the conbook before the convention is of no help. Many convention committees have given full information, but others have not answered at all. I suspect that some lack of replies are due to my requests going to a minor committee member who is not answering or passing them on to the chair. So a public announcement might reach a chairperson or another committee member who wants their convention represented in my book with all questions answered.

Also, I am trying to get at least one illustration for each convention — art such as website logos, conbook covers, posters, illustrated membership badges, illustrated hotel room keys; whatever a committee wants to submit. McFarland says that none of the illustrations on the Internet are of high enough resolution for book publication, so I cannot just framegrab an illustration from the Internet. They need a high resolution electronic file of 300 DPI or better.

Here is a sample entry:

Wild Nights

Wild Nights is a furry outdoor camping event that split off from the Oklacon when its organizing body, the Oklahoma Association of Anthropomorphic Arts, dissolved. Wild Nights used the old OAAA charter and bylaws as a model, and organized Wild Nights to be a similar event and with the same charity, but at a different state park. The organizing body is the Missouri Exotic Species Art Association (MESA), a registered not-for-profit 501c7 tax-exempt organization. Since 2012 the convention’s title is often modified to fit the theme of the year: “My Little Wild Nights: Furry Is Magic”; “Wild Nights of the Round Table”; “… in Sherwood Forest”, etc. Wild Nights’ long-running charity is Safari’s Sanctuary, a private exotic wildlife rescue zoo (not open to the public) in Broken Arrow, OK.

The original venue was Lake of the Ozarks State Park, MO, but this was denied by the Missouri Department of State Parks; so MESA moved the event to a similar state park in Oklahoma. Events included swimming, volleyball, basketball, and similar outdoor games, plus furry games such as Predator & Prey and a furry variety show. Attendees stayed in cabins that held 12 to 32 people in a single big room. The posters and badges of furry conventions were featured. There were eight acts in the variety show. There was no charity; an $800 surplus was put toward the next year’s expenses.

[Did Wild Nights 2010 differ at all from 2009?]

USO Special Guests (Entertainment Guests) were Max DeGroot and Kwaz the Drumming Raccoon.

The theme was originally “Furry Fallout”. Rhubarb the Bear’s musical play, Fosgate: Ferret Loan Officer, was premiered. The event also showed SonicBlu’s independent puppet films and had a firearms marksmanship event, a variety show, and a campfire.

Events included a charity poker tournament. Jeff Goode’s ten-person play Fursona Non Grata was performed to a standing ovation.

Margaret Carspecken drew the "Wild Nights in Sherwood Forest" logo.

Questions

Is Safari’s Sanctuary always the charity including years when none is listed? What have each year’s donations been? Who was the MESA President in 2014? Have there been T-shirts? Who have the artists been? Were the 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 guests of honor just guests of honor, or did they each have a title like Artist Guest of Honor?
What was the 2015 attendance total?

Note that I have the attendance for each year except the latest, 2015. It does not seem to have been published anywhere. Does anyone have it?

I will be glad to answer questions and send what I have to anyone who wants to help fill in the gaps. My e-mail is fredpatten@earthlink.net.