Why? (was Re: [Ansteorra] Principality?)

[Kelly Graham]

 I will try to answer this as best I can!

As an active-member of the SCA back in the 1980s, I could tell one thing -
many SCAians felt they were a family. That MAY have extended to people
in other Kingdoms, but I do not remember the local-populace (Ravensfort,
in my case), speaking of even our *nearest* neighbor, Meredias, in the way
those in Bjorensborg, the Steppes, Elfsea, Emerald Keep, Middleford, etc.,
were spoken of!

It may have helped that few that I knew or even knew of made it to far-
events like Pennsic, regularly.

And, just as in the mundane-world when family-splits occur, when Kingdom-
splits (say.. formations of Principalities) occur, hurt feelings and 
recriminations
can last, sometimes for years!

Just my shilling of opinion,

Donnchad macDonnel,
aka Kelly Paul Graham

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zubeydah Jamilla al-Badawiyya" <zubeydah at northkeep.org>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: Why? (was Re: [Ansteorra] Principality?)


> Okay, I've heard that a bunch of times, now, but no one has stated clearly 
> and concisely just what it was that happened, how it was that it was ugly, 
> and how it made folks turn against the concept.  Could someone do that, 
> for the benefit of those of us who haven't been part of the Kingdom of 
> umpteen years? *
>
> - Zubeydah
>
> (*spoken with curiosity and a true desire to understand.)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "KEYNA" <keyna at hot.rr.com>
> To: "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:38 PM
> Subject: RE: Why? (was Re: [Ansteorra] Principality?)
>
>
>> The way it was handled the last time was pretty ugly and it made a whole 
>> lot
>> of folks turn against a principality. Just to here the word makes some
>> shutter in there boots and hence the P word was born.
>> Keyna
>
>