ES - Elfsea Defender

[INEZ ADAMS]

Vivat! Darius, well spoken,  my vote is for you.
Innes

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:53:10 -0600 Darius and Monica
<dmmerlick at earthlink.net> writes:
> Hey Ho Darius here. 
> 
> His excellency Galen threw out the idea of waiting till Defender 
> 2001 to
> re start culture camps. I think this is a good and sound Idea. Last 
> year
> though we were willing to reserve space for culture camps, 
> advertised
> for people to set them up and even had a coordinator to contact, we
> ended up with only 3 or 4 inquiries about the camps. I believe that 
> as
> in agriculture a good field that produces poorly should be allowed 
> to
> lay fallow and then reseeded after fertility returns to the soil, so 
> we
> should allow this wonderful research and display opportunity to lie
> fallow as well. 
> 
> Other than that I would like to say also that I do not wish to see
> culture camps take up the whole of site. Even with an "unaligned 
> camp"
> there are groups such as households some shires and such that like 
> to
> have a concentrated camp of their own. I do  believe that with camps
> showcasing a medieval culture there should still be room on site for 
> the
> SCA culture to continue as usual. i remember many years ago at the 
> first
> Defender I attended there was little room that was not claimed by 
> this
> or that Culture camp. It was very difficult for a family or a small
> group to just find a place to set up and enjoy the event. 
> 
> One other suggestion I have is to reinstate the culture camps as an
> every other year type of thing. thus giving people more time to 
> recover
> from the last one they were a part of as well as more time to create 
> the
> magic of research, decorations, garb and planning that goes into 
> these
> camps. some of the major reasons people voiced for not doing some of 
> the
> camps was they were tiered of doing the same camps with the same 
> people,
> or they were just plain tired. another reason I have heard is not 
> having
> time with regular life and eventing the rest of the year to prepare 
> for
> such a large undertaking. 
> 
> Well there's My 2 bits plus a pound or two on top
> I remain at home in Elfsea
> HL Darius of the Bells
>
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