Re: [Mid] Learn something every day!

> The SCA creates a village? I honestly can say that in the past 32
> years I've never heard the SCA described in that way.

Well, at Swine and Roses in the Barony of White Waters every July, there IS
Upton Paggles, which is an attempt at something of a Mediaeval Village type
of thing, where artisans practise their crafts in as authentic a setting as
can be managed.

And heck, Pennsic, in a manner of speaking, is, for 2 weeks every summer,
anyway, something of a "Mediaeval village", of a sort. Well, OK, maybe not a
village, but a town, given the population boom in the past decade or so.
Maybe that's what people are referring to?

> Back when I joined in 1970, almost all events were tournaments (the rest
were
> feasts) and the thing we were trying to re-create was the life of the
> nobility

And it's still pretty much that way today. The average event weekend is a
tourney and feast type of affair, unless it's a camping event where you feed
yourself.

That's pretty much been my SCA experience for the past nearly quarter
century............gads, am I ever beginning to feel old!!! 25 years as of
September 29, 2002! Has it REALLY been that long????

~Saradwen, suddenly feeling a tad old.............................

From: "Sally Burnell" <sburnell@raex.com>
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ to unsubscribe, send a message to
`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~` majordomo@midrealm.org with
. | | | | | | | | 'unsubscribe sca-middle' as its body.
Received on Tue Jan 1 16:54:00 2002