[Ansteorra] Why aren't we doing this?

[Tim McDaniel]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:
> The fact that we call our game the Society for CREATIVE Anachronism
> and not the Society for RECREATIVE Anachronism says a lot to me.

Marion Zimmer Bradley was at the parks department applying for the use
of a park for the sequel to a rather successful medieval-themed party
of May 1, 1966.  The form had a line for the name of the group.
She came up with "the Society for Creative Anachronism".

I think it an error to try to ascribe too much significance to a snap
decision made by one person, especially when (I think) she had no
notion that there would even BE an actual organization, which was
unilaterally imposed later.

Danel de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com