[Ansteorra] the old days

[Leslie Snipes]

Oh, I so wish I had my photo albums here!
You would have seen everything from bedsheet togas to princess dresses to faux chainmail bikinis to barbarians draped in oh so obviously faux fur, the kind we used to make big pillows from (and you'd have seen lots of those pillows) and not necessarily in animal colors.  Oh, and fairies and pixies and all sorts of mythical beasts!
Lots of drums, lots and lots of drums. We turned everything into drums.  Of course, it wasn't unusual for us to have commercial drumsticks on hand to beat them with either :)
After darkness set in, you'd not have seen much.  We didn't have the candle thing down very well at all and rarely anything beyond candles at all.  Lots of stumbling around in the dark but that wasn't all from the darkness.
Oh, my the smells.  Rarely, rarely had running water on sites so by the second night and fighters having fought for 2 days... And the smell of poorly brewed beer would have knocked you over but for the fact the smell of wafting pot that already had.

Girls stumbling around campsites in the morning sun in sheer gauze dresses.  Hm, maybe it's a good thing those photo albums are tucked away.  Perhaps, since the SCA has taken on a more serious perspective of history since then, it's good that so much of the early days seems to have disappeared into thin air (with Merlin).

It was the late 1970's and the last gasps of the hippies and most of us were young and broke!

Pandora

--- On Tue, 9/15/09, Coblaith Muimnech <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Coblaith Muimnech <Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Ansteorra] the old days
To: "Inc. Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA" <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 3:50 AM

Bryn Gwlad's forthcoming fall event is themed around the Society as it was when the barony was founded <http://sca1979.swordworks.org/>.   You'd think it'd be easier to find information on the clothes, goods, and customs of that period than those I usually study, but that has thus far not proved to be the case.  So I turn to you, my compatriots.  Had I wandered into an S.C.A. event thirty years ago, what would I have seen, heard, and smelled?  And do you have photos?


Coblaith Muimnech
<mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
<http://coblaith.net>


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