ANST - sites and misuse of hospitality ...

[SCOTT A WAGGONER]

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:48:23 -0500 "Alan J. Boertjens"
<a-boertjens1 at ti.com> writes:

>
>That's exactly why we need to get out from under non-SCA-owned
>sites.  Scarborough Faire has a permanent site.  Hawkwood has a 
>permanent site.  Why can't we get a site for our own?  
>

>
>~Ld.Johan Bjornsson
> (Alan Boertjens)

I have heard this topic before and the usual reason i hear is that
because of the way our not-for-profit status is set up. Either the SCA
cannot own land at all, or it has to be owned by the corporation and not
by individual kingdoms or baronies. I believe it is the former.
Scarborough faire and other renaissance fairs are FOR-PROFIT commercial
ventures that are privately owned. 
Having autocrated in the past i have had to deal with the problem of
finding an adequate site.  Not all sites are good for all events. Our
canton cannot afford the huge deposit and site fees the nice sites the
baronies use, so we had to do a bit of searching and ended up finding an
excellent though primitive site for our Midsummer's faire and they are
using the same site again this year.  
I personally would LOVE to have an SCA owned LOCAL site that we could
build a real castle on etc. but I don't see that happening. We DO have a
castle at the Jones country site that we use for a lot of melee events.
It isn't owned by the SCA but the owners didn't seem to mind us putting
up a castle there. The important thing is to have a good relationship
with the landowners. Don't break their rules or trash the place. That is
the quickest way to lose a site permanently.



Mayne de la Croix --- The original MiB
Gate's Edge Canton, Barony of  Stargate,  Ansteorra

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