principalities

[Damaris of Greenhill]

Lionardo Acquistapace wrote:

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>Personal feelings being hurt by the break-up of the whole.
>Administrative difficulties for initially setting these up.
>A LARGER event calendar, initially, to cover Kingdom AND Principality 
>	level events, as well as local ones.
>Arguments over who gets the name "Ansteorra" (I say if it happens, 
>	don't let anyone have it. ;) Doesn't really matter to me, 
>	though.)
>
>
>And the Pros of:
>
>The ability to travel within a smaller Kingdom more easily.
>An easement on the event calendar on the local level in the long term.
>The ability to better define our regional differences. (Sir Kief would
>
>	apparently view this as a con, since he claims our differences 
>	make us stronger. I have only seen this cause greater grief, but 
>	I've only been in the SCA for a year, so what do I know.)
>The ability to experience a different Kingdom culture more easily
>The ability of regions to band together more easily, better defining 
>	their own culture and allowing for new areas of diversity. (Could
>
>	be seen by some as a con.)
>Alleviation of personal feelings being hurt by some Crown from some 
>	"furin'" region ruling the Kingdom in ways your region doesn't 
>	appreciate.
>Better chance for smaller events to get noticed and be attended within
>
>	a smaller Kingdom. (Goes along with the calander easement above.)
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Just want to insert a question here.  What will happen to Ansteorra Inc. if
we split?

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>Hmm... so far I appear to lean in favor of the breakup. PLEASE comment
>on these and add to the lists, as those of you with more experience
>can help enlighten some of us to concisely lay out the pros and cons
>of this decision before we write to TRM. So far I think if we have a
>good level of autonomy as Principalities we could quickly move to
>being Kingdoms (don't see why we don't just go to being Kingdoms,
>actually) and create a greater feeling of community. Let's face it,
>for a good deal of us driving 8 hours on a weekend to get to a cool
>event on the far end of the Kingdom is very rough when balancing it
>with our professional careers and (for some of us) night school as
>well. Personally I think I'd have more of an excuse to drive that far
>if it was out of Kingdom, because then I could really experience a
>completely different "culture". Besides, we'd then have more borders
>to have "wars" over . >;-)
>
>Honos Servio,
>Lionardo Acquistapace, Barony of Bjornsborg
>(MKA Lenny Zimmermann, San Antonio)
>zarlor at acm.org

Damaris of Greenhill

mka Susan Wieland
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