Re: [Middlebridge] SCA in 50 years - long term planning

Catriona wrote:

>Build a beautiful feast-hall with a dream-kitchen, plenty of bathrooms, and
>smaller rooms off of it, and I'm sure the revenue from SCA events and
>weddings would pay for year-round maintenance plus showers and flush toilets.

I would bet on it too, if I was the sole investor. :) I want to build a
keep! But the data on being able to do this without turning it into
MedievalLand is just not available...a few years of permanent siting should
give us hard numbers for making estimates on what type of improvements we
could afford. And such improvements could (and should!) be staged; one
year develop a reliable and safe running water infrastructure, another build
several esthetically pleasing showerhouse/toilet facilities, a few years
later a functional and decorative feast/meeting hall, etc.

My point was that a simple site with lots of camping space, properly shaded,
well set-up for our activities, with primitive facilities, would suffice and
is economically do-able with fundraising capabilities we already
possess...it has been done, proof-of-concept exists, nay-sayers are either
unaware of the facts or denying the facts for some philosophical reasons.

Or young :) I have noticed that college age members think $1000 is all the
money in the world and a million or more is impossible to contemplate.
While those of us with a tinge of grey and a job know of many less worthy
causes that have collected such amounts from much smaller and less dedicated
memberships. No patronization intended, I remember quite well thinking the
same way. :) The difference is one of perspective; I know that we could
fund such a thing *over*time*, the younger me wanted to do it *yesterday*
and, that not being realistic, decided the whole project was out of reach.
Anyway, that's the theory.:)

>(Picture it...little private flush toilets shaped like little towers or
>guardhouses or thatched-look cottages...now that's my dream!)

Nirvana, indeed!

Mathurin

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