ANST - Is the Crown Watching?

[amberd at flash.net]

Out of curiosity, from an individual who doesn't do archery, although I have 
concidered trying it and I have watched it on occasion, how many Kings Archers 
(non armigerous award for Archery - A braid of Green and Black worn at the 
belt) have been awarded in the past few years?


Is it worn with as much pride as the Queen's Rapier, which is awarded to 
fencers? 

 I simply ask to try and deterime how the currently availible award is regarded 
in the Archery community.



Amerinda di Praga





On Mon Apr  3 14:34:55 2000, ansteorra at ansteorra.org wrote:

> Vivat! Countess Octavia,
> 
> I feel that you did an outstanding job at getting to as many activities
> as possible.
> However,  We in ansteorra have had many kings and queens that apparently
> dont try to even make an apperance at many of the activities.  Nor are
> they apparently
> interested in even recognizing some of the activities that are going on. 
> 
> There is as much concentration, practice, etc in archery as there is in
> heavy weapons,
> rapier, and bardic.   and yet	  NO RECOGNIZATION even to be told Well
> Done.
> 
> Innes
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:57:07 EDT DAFPIG at aol.com writes:
> > Greetings All,
> > 
> > In a very perceptive message, a good gentle wrote:
> > 
> >  > Earlier someone commented that the Crown should show more 
> > interest in
> >  > archery than just creating a new possition....I beleive it was 
> > suggested
> >  > that they watch the archery shoots and participate.	
> >  >  Do you all realize just how busy the crown is at an event?	At 
> > any given
> >  > event there are at least five people that have serious business 
> > to discuss
> >  > with them, they are obligated to watch at least some of the 
> > fighting
> >  > (Sable Falcons and Queens Rapiers are usually decided by acts on 
> > the field
> >  > that day), attend the A&S (often asked to judge), hold circles, 
> > make plans
> >  > for court, attend bardic, attend feast, and be acceceable to any 
> > of their
> >  > subjects that want a bit of their time.  There is rarely time 
> > left to draw
> >  > a breath.>>>
> > 
> > Amen to this!!  As a former crown, I can easily vouch for this 
> > missive!!	If 
> > a crown is doing thier :job" well, The populace should never know 
> > that the 
> > crown is being pulled in 100 different ways at once.  Meaning..the 
> > crown 
> > tries to smile and be attentive to everyone they can, giving the 
> > illusion 
> > that we have all the time in the world for them :).  Also,I feel 
> > that it is 
> > one of the crowns duties to be as supportive as possible to each of 
> > the given 
> > activities done at an event.  However, this is just not always 
> > possible.	
> > 
> > There were many times I missed a particular event I was Very 
> > interested in, 
> > because of kingdom busness or just addressing some gentle that 
> > required my 
> > attention.  Some of these gentles did not have "serious" busness or  
> > 
> > "kingdom-shattering news", but merely wanted to speak pleasantries 
> > with their 
> > crown. They deserve our attention as well as the next gentle.
> > 
> > I'm not trying to make "excuses" for the crown missing your 
> > activity, but 
> > merely asking you to consider why they may be absent. Please give 
> > them the 
> > same consideration you would anyone else,, give them the benefit of 
> > the 
> > doubt.  Perhaps they really do want to be there,,but just cant make 
> > it...sigh.....Please remember that YOUR crown are just 2 gentles 
> > trying to do 
> > the best job the can for you.
> >  
> > Still chasing my dream,
> > Octavia
> > countess of Ansteorra
> >
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