To All gentles of Elfsea and Steppes

     My lady Anne and I attended the Celtic Heritage Festival at the Bedford Boy's Ranch today.  The event was perhaps a little less attended that the last time we went, but there were still a lot of interesting people, vendors, fabulous musicians, dogs, pipers, gamers,kilts, music, food of all sorts, more music , and still more music.  There was a group of confederate soldiers, birds of prey, a book vendor with more books than I would be able to use in a month of Sundays.  The thing that was missing, at least to my very predjudiced eyes, was any semblance of SCA presence.  What a very wasted opportunity to show our stuff and recruit some new members.  It was at this event that my first exposure to SCA stuff took place.
     I certainly hope that my efforts to make the North Texas Irish Festival do not suffer the same fate. I have big and wonderful plans for this year, including having our fighters as a scheduled event, listed in the program with specific times.  It will take some amount of work to carry off, but with the gracious approval of our Demo coordinator Iames, I will prevail.  We won the trophy for best cultural exhibit last year.  This year I want to be the best at the entire festival.  WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!
                   Yours in service, Brendan