Emmanuel is to be a keynote speaker at the combined Rattlesnake Sexing/Hog Calling contest being held during the county fair that month.
He will be expounding on his theory concerning the circadian rhythms of snakes being affected both by lunar cycles and the solar maxima and outlining his formula to determine optimum breeding times for these endangered reptiles.
Snakes having their bodies mostly in constant contact with the ground are more susceptible than most reptiles to the minute changes in lunar tidal attraction during the movement from apogee to perigee, while it is believed that highly charged particles from the sun interacting with the upper atmosphere cause not only auroral activity but also weak electrical transferences between a snake's ventral scales and highly mineralised soils which can arouse reptilian libidos even in cooler weather.
He has established a very successful Death Adder breeding program using these principles and is now adapting the formula to take account of the larger body dimensions of adult Tiger Snakes.
This research has attracted much interest in Georgia owing to the steady decline in Rattlesnake numbers in recent years and the need to establish Rattlesnake farms to produce belts, snake oil and pets for the politically minded.
Emmanuel was most recently in the news when he got the civic fathers of Dunedoo to introduce dramatic new traffic control measures in the town.
Alarmed by the increasing air pollution from automobile hydrocarbon emissions, and the danger to pedestrians and reptiles from high speed traffic, he has secured a new by-law by which all motor vehicles passing through the town must turn off the ignition one kilometre outside the town boundary and be towed to a location one kilometre on the far side of town by a team of horses which are also fitted with an LED array for use at night time.
The results have so far been encouraging and Emmanuel says he can now reach a whole two magnitudes fainter with his binocular telrads owing to the darker and clearer skies over the town.
He hopes to be a guest speaker at the 2007 Texas Star Party, where he will be arguing for a similar law to be passed to protect the sky over Fort Davis, particularly during TSP week.
Such a law is already being proposed for Limpia Crossing, close to the TSP.