Good Lords and Ladies.... Just a couple of days from now, at Fair Park in Dallas, our family from the Steppes is putting on its annual demo at the NORTH TEXAS IRISH FESTIVAL (www.ntif.org).  It is our best opportunity to recruit new members.  Over 30,000 people pass through the doors for this event, and some of them are sure to find us irrisistable.  After all, didn't you at some time????  But to make this work, your help is still needed.  How many people does it take to talk to 30,000 people over two days????
   We will be in the Centinneal Building at Fair Park starting at 10:30 on Saturday and 11:30 on Sunday.  We will have a list field for the fighters and an area for the dancers, tables for the artisans, and places for the rest to talk to the passers by.  Won't you join us?
  Our friends from Elfsea will most assuredly find many from their fair Barony that will be interested in joining them for fun and frolic.  Will some of you be coming?
   Yours in service to the dream, Bre'nain MacGilla Pa'traic, Steppes demo coordinator

  To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is pleasure beyond compare.
   -Yoshido Kenko, Japanese Buddhist Priest and Poet (born-1283)