[Bordermarch] "The Nina" - Tomorrows Fighter Practice

[Tommie Stovall-Prentiss]

Please count me in. I shall be there promptly and ready to go.  This should 
be an amazing experience.  I have such the busy day tomorrow.

Lady Katitcha
aka Tommie


>From: Richard and Debra <armand_caitrin at sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: armand_caitrin at sbcglobal.net,Barony of Bordermarch 
><bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: Bordermarch MessageBoard <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Bordermarch] "The Nina" - Tomorrows Fighter Practice
>Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:14:03 -0800 (PST)
>
>    Look what we have docked at our own Riverfront Park in Beaumont!
>   Here is a great opportunity for us to go to visit this replica and do 
>some PR for our group.
>
>      Malcom and Nikolai have reschedule fighter practice to be at 
>Riverfront Park tomorrow from 1pm - 3 pm. Please come out in garb. If you 
>so wish, you can bring a project that you have been working on. Lets try to 
>keep modern world out of sight if possible. Please bring your mugs to drink 
>from, your cloaks to keep warm and something to cover your coolers.
>
>      I have called the Columbus Foundation and got the group rate for 15+ 
>people with a guided tour and the price is $3.00 a head, that is a $2.00 
>savings per person.  This will make great photos. Phocas asks for you to 
>please bring your cameras and take pictures for him, he will be out of town 
>tomorrow and will not be able to attend.
>
>   Hope to see you there,
>
>   Caitrin de Lacy
>   Baroness of Bordermarch
>
>
>   "The Nina" (A replica of Columbus' favorite ship)
>
>   February 2, 2007 - February 11, 2007
>9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily
>
>Visit website
>Name:  Riverfront Park
>Event Address:  Downtown
>Location:  Beaumont, TX
>Phone:  (787) 421-0402
>Riverfront Park
>$5.00 - Adults / $4.00 - Seniors (60+) / $3.00 - Students
>Children ages 4 and under free
>Groups (15+) - 30 minute guided tours. Teachers or groups wishing to 
>schedule a tour can call
>the ship at (787) 421-0402 or email columfnd at surfbvi.com.
>General public tours are "walk aboard" and self guided. No reservations 
>necessary.
>Presented By: Columbus Foundation Inc.
>
>   Replica of Columbus' 'Niña' coming ashore in Beaumont
>
>   By JAMIE REID
>The Enterprise
>
>   While explorer Christopher Columbus' popularity soared 14 years ago - 
>during the 500th anniversary of his "discovery" of the Americas in 1492 - 
>his reputation has taken a tumble in recent years, according to one 
>historian.
>
>   Perhaps it's because people overdosed on Columbus in 1992, when the 
>explorer was all over the media and the basis of a movie, "1492: Conquest 
>of Paradise" directed by Ridley Scott and starring French actor Gérard 
>Depardieu, Columbus expert Eugene Lyon of Florida said in a telephone 
>interview from his Florida home.
>
>   The film, which depicted the explorer's journey to the New World, used a 
>replica of the Niña in filming, according to a press kit from The Columbus 
>Foundation. That replica, which was built in Brazil and finished in 1991, 
>will arrive in Beaumont starting next weekend for tours.
>   Lyon, who has been aboard this Niña replica, describes it as the most 
>authentic Columbus-era replica. (There are at least four other Columbus 
>ships that have been built in recent years, and three of them are docked in 
>Corpus Christi, he said.)
>   I really felt it was as they claimed," he said, "an authentic replica."
>   This ship is the most accurate because it has four masts, like the 
>original Niña, he said. Other replicas were built with three, he said.
>   This Niña, which was built entirely by hand using designs and 
>construction techniques dating back to the 15th-century, is 93.6 feet long 
>and has a 7-foot draft, according to a press kit. The ship holds a crew of 
>five, while the original ship had a 27-man crew, according to the press 
>kit.
>
>   Lyon doubts many other replicas will be constructed due to lack of 
>interest, he said.
>   Part of that apathy, or even contempt, for Columbus may stem from the 
>subsequent treatment of American Indians after the "discovery" of the New 
>World, Lyon said. During the 500th-anniversary, many Native Americans 
>demonstrated against the celebrations, he said.
>
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