[Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth er than the ...

[Maleah]

This whole thread started with a comment by Mistress Lorraine about last
Protectorate. Please let me say that the length of court and feast was very
unusual. With it being the Silver Protectorate we did several things we
don't normally do. We sent in quite a long list of award recommendations and
TRM's Duncan and Larissa (bless their pointy little heads) gave us almost
all of them on the list!!!! Mind you, I'm not complaining, but we expected
about 1//2 of the number we got. We did have some recognition at feast and
at other times during the day but evening court was still VERY long.Which
gentle should we have left out of the recognition???? I just felt like I had
to show you the other side of the coin on this one.
    All that said I don't know of a good solution to the problem except to
try and train our newer people a little better and to try and break up the
business as much throughout the day as possible. I agree that some of us are
older and don't camp as well as we used to. I'm a prime example. I cannot
tolerate the 100 degree 90% humidity anymore. So I tend to daytrip or hotel
it when possible. I do try and stay as long as I am able and most times make
the bulk of the event but have been guilty upon occasion of sneaking off
early. I will try and do better in the future and teach our newer people the
joys of late night carousing.
    As far as the feast hall size issue, we are facing the problem of a
smaller hall with a new site we are looking at down closer to the Red River.
We've discussed, fussed and discussed some more and have not come up with a
good solution to the problem. Adding the GP's is one of the options we've
discussed by the way. The rest of the site is great but we normally have
between 300-400 people at a Protectorate. So what to do?? Sometimes it boils
down to what is available on the date we must have. The ideal would be a
site built to our specifications, but until that happens we make do as best
we can. In my 18 years in the Society I've never seen anyone turned away who
was eating "off board." It can be a nightmare for the cooks and servers but
a little patience, your feast token on display, a lot of cooperation, and
communication with your server can help with that immensely. When there are
space limitations it's been my experience that this was published well in
advance and people could plan accordingly.

This spiel is my own and in no way was meant to attack anyone. Lorraine
knows how much I love her and now the rest of you do too. Aren't you glad we
shared??

Seriously, if anyone can come up with a solution, by all means pass it
along.

Maleah
Baroness of Namron




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hughes" <davidjhughes.tx at netzero.net>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] A thought about why people leave for feast... oth
er than the ...


>
>
> Charlie Ribron II wrote:
> >
> > My question to this is this. If your expecting 300 people to come to the
> > event "why get a place that will only hold 100".
> > If I was the event steward I would look for a place that could hold the
> > expected gate. I would say this would handle the problem.
> > Carlos
>
>
> And if no such site is available on the desired date, within the
> available budget?
> Or on is available, in a city 200 miles away?
> Do you cancel the event rather than try to work within practical
> limitations?
>
> David Gallowglass
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