[Mid] Re: [Ermine] In Memory Of Jafar

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Ernie Husted wrote:

Just to add a bit...

> * The ceremony was held downstairs with the Society folk all going
> upstairs. Upstairs there was one large room with a smaller room off to the
> left. There were 200 people seated in the chairs with about 40 standing.
> The smaller side room had 30 or so.

Not all the SCA folks were upstairs, some of us who arrived late got to
sit or stand downstairs.

> * The drive to the grave site seemed much longer due to the amount of cars
> in the procession. Along the way folks stopped on the street or looked out
> from their house at the procession. The line of cars went from as far as
> you could see in front all the way out of sight in the back.

I did not attend the gravesite but I did here about the procession on a
police scanner. They were concerned that it might cause some serious
traffic problems. It was well over three miles long.

> * I asked one of the traffic escort how many cars were in the procession.
> He told me 110 plus. They had been expecting 60 to 80.

There was a local TV camera crew that shot video of part of the procession
in case they found out later it was someone who came up in the news.

In Service to College and Kingdom
          /> Dafydd "Taffy" Wolfson
         // Middle Kingdom - Flaming Gryphon
(///////[0]=============================================-
         \\ "Veni, Coqui, Bibimus"
          \> I came, I brewed, We drank

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Received on Sun Jan 4 11:16:12 1998