This is what started it all - the predecessor of Lemurcons to come!
Written by J. Furr <jfurr@danger.com>
Extracted from the alt.fan.lemurs FAQ Part 7

It's a long story -- the soc.singles newsgroup had been planning a big "boink"
as they called it in Durham, North Carolina, during the June 18-19-20 weekend
of 1993.  Louise Perry, an alt.fan.lemurs reader who studies in England yet
who was visiting her family in the USA, was also going to be in Durham for a
DUPC visit as she had adopted a red-ruffed lemur named Diphda.  Since there
were all these people in the Durham area I knew vaguely, I went down too! 
When all was said and done, we had a group of some fifteen people going around
the standard DUPC tour.  We got to see some of the animals we'd adopted, but
not up close and personal since the educational coordinator who would have
arranged that was not on duty that day.  Louise did get to meet Diphda and
pose for photos, and I got to wow everyone with my encyclopedic knowledge of
lemur trivia.  We also got to see the new DUPC nocturnal animals facility,
which was crammed with adorable little mouse lemurs and lorises and tarsiers. 

This time around, the people present were as follows.  There were three
alt.fan.lemurs readers there and three associated hangers-on; the three
readers were Joel Furr, Louise Perry, and Timothy Satterfield (a Durham-area
resident).  Louise had brought along her boyfriend, Jim Parberry of Norfolk,
England, and Tim had brought along two friends from the locality, Cheryl and
Jared Murphy.  We were accompanied into the Primate Center by someone who'd
unexpectedly shown up as well: Dena Barbee, the friend of Bruce Tindall's who
participated in AFL/AFU Southeast yet missed the lemur tour through unexpected
circumstances.  Dena was back to do the tour for the first time and
coincidentally was there the same day as AFL/SS Southeast.   Our contingent
from soc.singles consisted of Beth "Diamond" Abrams, Paul Wallich, Seth
Breidbart, and Eleanor "Piglet" Evans.  There were apparently dozens of other
soc.singles-ites wandering around Durham that day that we only glimpsed
lolling at a picnic table on the DUPC grounds as we were finishing our tour.