[Ansteorra] How the West helps Us
Casey Thorp
casey.walker.thorp at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 00:24:25 PST 2008
Having grown up in West Texas, I am intimately familiar with the
logistics of the vast and great Western Region. In Boy Scouts, we had
similar issues of kids being far flung and scattered about in various
areas. I knew several kids that wore a 'lone scout' badge on their arm
because they lived far from any group, which we called Troops, and were
not able to attend Troop meetings, so they essentially taught
themselves. Its easy to look at a map and say "this town is only an hour
drive from Lubbock or San Angelo", but actually the members of a certain
group could easily live two hours the other side of that town off of
ranch roads designed to feed cattle in a pasture and not travel directly
from point A to point B.
Being an officer takes dedication and the ability to put in the time.
There are probably numerous people highly dedicated to the SCA who
cannot put in the time to drive two hours to a meeting, meet for an
hour, and then drive two hours back home without sacrificing feeding
their kids or tending to their work.
Having just recently joined the official Ansteorra mailing list, I may
have missed someone pointing this out, but am dumbfounded at what has
happened. If I'm mistaken, please correct me, but it appears the more
rural groups have been dissolved in favor of the few metropolitan hubs
in the area, that may have a movie theater or two and something
resembling an airport.
Having been to several Wars over the past 8 years, I've personally seen
four Western Region fighters mow over units that were 20+ fighters in
size. I'll bet a large majority of Ansteorra has something crafted by
someone from the Western Region. Yes, the numbers are small, but the
contributions out of the Western Region are huge.
Personally, I wonder if the current decision is correct, and if a rite
of combat between champions could be requested by those this affects the
most. I believe that would be a very chivalrous, noble, and honorable
way to handle any conflict with this decision.
~Wiglaf Arduisca, Esq.
Pat Mullins wrote:
> This actually makes a lot of sense. One warranted officer and one
> authorized marshal for fighter practice. They could even be the same
> person. The marshal could have a family membership, or not even be a
> paid member.
> Maybe they could call themselves Blacklake, (for example) an Outpost
> (or Mission, or Kumquat, or whatever term currently has no official
> meaning in the SCA) of the Barony of Bonwicke.
> These "outposts" would be totally dependent on the Barony
> financially, and could not hold their own calendar events, but
> otherwise not much need change. The "outposts" could have official
> fighter practices and guild meetings.They could even continue hosting
> their own events, but unofficially. No kingdom awards could be given,
> or kingdom law enacted, but people deserving of kingdom awards could
> surely receive them at the Barony's events.
> Maybe the Barony could even be given a few more Kingdom calendar
> events. There will never be a competing event in the region, and
> seldom a competing event within 250 miles, (even if the event is held
> at an outpost). The Baron and Baroness could make a yearly or biennial
> (if there are several outposts) progress through their far flung lands.
> The only problem I see is if there were several outposts, having
> enough warranted officer positions to be filled. Is there, or could
> there be, such a thing as a warranted deputy seneschal?
> Expanding on a good idea,
> Paedric
>
> Robert Fitzmorgan <fitzmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sub-communities within the Barony will not need a treasurer. If they
> have an official Fighter Practice they will need to file waivers, but
> other
> than that there shouldn't be any reports or paperwork. To have an
> official
> Fighter Practice there will need to be at least one warranted officer
> present, but other than that the deputy officers need not be
> warranted, or
> warrantable officers. The sub-communities will not have their own bank
> account, any expenditures would have to be approved by and come from the
> official branch.
>
> Robert
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