ANST - On Another subject entirely

[jonwillowpel at juno.com]

Hi this is Willow
I remember the "Old days". Back in A.S 3 there was less official
activities but the was no time because there were fewer people and we had
all to work.  Then we got more people and started doing more but still
there was no time because we all had to work. Then in the first part of
the kingdom we got enough people to support our activities but because we
were used to working we had more activities, most of them unofficial. We
could be busy the whole time. People then started having more official
activates and we could be even busier. My whole time in the SCA I have
been busy. In fact I find less things to do now.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:26:16 -0500 Susan Bowen <bbowen at ev1.net> writes:
> Maybe we have had different experiences or maybe we just recall 
> things
> differently, but my memories of SCA events starting in AS XII are 
> that we
> didn't do fewer things, we just were less likeley to do them all at 
> the same
> time than we do now. We would have a heavy weapons list, then a 
> rapier list,
> and then a bardic competition, or a dance class, or some other 
> activity. And,
> of course, feasts and courts were and are still held at a different 
> time than
> lists. The SCA has become in all ways a more complex organism as it 
> has grown
> and matured over the years. It has much to offer to people with 
> divergent
> interests and we have gotten better at providing opportunities at 
> most of our
> events to give people venues for these divergent interests.
> It was not my intention to give this increase in simultanious 
> activities as a
> reason for not watching our fighters fight. I was saying it takes a 
> more
> conscious committment to devote time to watching "the one's whose 
> favor we
> bear" in whatever activities they are participating in. And my point 
> was that
> it is worth the effort.
> 
> Philippa
> 
> Trish Kvamme wrote:
> 
> > I find much amusement in what people are referring to as "the 
> olden days".
> >
> > While I have played a long time (I started the SCA as a very young 
> person)
> > and last time I took a look in the mirror I wasn't "old" *Laugh*, 
> in all the
> > Kingdom's I have played in, in all the events I have attended, 
> there is
> > absolutely no more activities than there was when I wandered to my 
> first
> > event in 1981.
> >
> > There have always been scribes workshops, heraldic consultations, 
> equestrian
> > activities, light weapons of one form or another, arts and 
> sciences
> > competitions, children's activities, a heavy weapons list, feasts, 
> courts,
> > Crown's and just about anything else you can come up with.
> >
> > So I say "horse pucky".
> > ,<snipped>
> > Larissa
> >
> > 
>
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