[Central] Fwd: [Steppes] SCA @ SMU

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--- Quill <gray.quill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:34:34 -0500
> From: Quill <gray.quill at gmail.com>
> To: "Mailing Lists"
> <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Steppes] SCA @ SMU
> 
> Haven't done one of these in awhile...
> 
> Things have been slow at SMU this semester, and
> Quill has spent a lot of
> time in his box set aside while other
> priorities are kept. I'm sure we're
> all familiar with the Call of the Mundane.
> (Related to but quite different
> from the Call of the Wild.) There are still
> pockets of definite interest,
> but the people I whose interest I had already
> captured who I thought would
> want to get involved have, alas, been retaken
> by other concerns, and I can't
> blame them; even I've had to back off from some
> of my extracurricular
> activities.
> 
> Even so, we've done well. Eight new people
> (both here and in other parts of
> the kingdom) have been to a populace, a fighter
> practice, or an event, and
> continue to talk about them, so word is
> spreading and enthusiasm is there.
> This is where we build foundations.
> 
> The campus Medieval Club has suffered from
> several afflictions this year,
> several of them coming from issues before my
> time. We've struggled along and
> barely manged to maintain our charter this
> semester. Still, I have high
> hopes for us, and the fact that we still set
> high goals for ourselves is a
> good sign.
> 
> On Sunday afternoon, April 20th from 1pm-4pm we
> will be holding a very small
> Medieval Faire on the grounds outside of
> Meadows Museum. It will consist
> mostly of History and Medieval Studies students
> displaying what they've
> learned and projects they've been working on,
> and will also include things
> like a stage combat show, facepainting, and so
> on. I would encourage anyone
> who finds themselves without plans for that
> time to come and support us, but
> the Barony of the Steppes has also been
> specifically invited to do a small
> demo for the SCA as well.
> 
> Which brings me to my own plea. I have spoken
> with Her Excellency Steppes,
> and with our vivacious Hospitaler Vyolante, and
> if there are just get a few
> people who can spare some items of eye-catching
> interest, and a handful of
> folks willing to come down and represent the
> Society at it's philanthropic
> best, I believe such a showing will make a
> great impression on those
> students who aren't yet fully convinced that
> our hobby can be theirs also.
> I'm not kidding when I say there is fertile
> ground here, and what I see in
> some of my fellow students are not just seeds,
> but true gems; still, I
> cannot sow alone! So please, I know it's quite
> short notice, and I realize
> there are a number of other events (not to
> mention the BOD meeting and tall
> that entails) on that particular weekend that
> will have plenty of you
> scattered to the corners of our kingdom (or
> just plain exhausted from
> whatever) but if you aren't doing anything in
> that small time frame I urge
> you volunteer for this demo. It need not be
> nearly as elaborate as the
> homeschool demo we just finished with, nor as
> drawn out as the AllCon was
> (although to give you an idea of the level of
> involvement we had in mind,
> that table we had at AllCon would be the ideal
> sort of thing to try and do
> again here at SMU - only just for four hours,
> and sans fighter
> demonstrations or workshops).
> 
> That is essentially the last thing I have from
> SMU for this semester, so
> once that's over I'll have nothing to report
> from the school until August. I
> still hope to eventually coordinate a fighter
> practice or two that will
> accommodate student schedules, Quill will not
> stop dragging his friends to
> this populace or that event, and I continue to
> sing the Society's praises to
> all who will listen. And let's be honest, a
> Bard doesn't have breath to
> waste on unworthy causes, so I must extend my
> thanks to everyone - and I
> mean Everyone - for simply being wonderful
> people who are worth telling
> tales about.
> 
> -- 
> In service to The Dream and Dreamers all,
> Cuillioc /|\ "Quill"
> Titled Bard of the Barony of Bonwicke
> Mendersham Bard Emeritus
> 
> "It is said that the Devil never crossed the
> Tamar into Cornwall on account
> of the well-known habit of Cornish women of
> putting everything into a pasty,
> and that he was not sufficiently courageous to
> risk such a fate!"
> 
> -From the cookbook _Cornish Recipes Ancient and
> Modern_
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