[Ansteorra] History

[Chris Zakes]

At 09:53 AM 5/7/2008, you wrote:
>Willow wrote:
> > Here are some things that were different.
> > People didn't camp with their cars. People made a big point
> > of moving their cars Friday night.
>
>I wish more people would do this. I tend to dislike sites that have the
>parking lot within EASY view of the list field, but sometimes we don't have
>much of a choice; one of our favorite sites up here in the North is like
>that, but we try to stuff all the pretty pavilions onto the field between
>the parking lot and the rest of the site, to help block it from view.

Here's something I read on the Rialto a few years ago. It might be 
worth copying:

"At one event I was autocratting (yeah, yeah, I know some folks don't 
like the 'word'), I asked the teenagers to be parking patrol folks - 
mostly, their job was to help guide drivers to and from their sites 
and the parking lot, but after noon, each kid had three signs that 
read, "This is a PELL -since cars aren't supposed to be parked here" 
which they were encouraged to leave on the front window of the car. 
That was one of the best car-free events we had. (And it didn't hurt 
that at least one kid stood guard over the car while so it wouldn't 
really get damaged while another one went to find someone who'd know 
who the owner was.) Folks wanted to keep their 'pell' signs, too - 
but apparently so they could use them later on _their_ friend's cars!"

         -Tivar Moondragon