[Northkeep] Memories

[Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner]

One of the coolest event activities I've ever witnessed was the great 
way Chemin Noir said welcome to the new and goodbye and thank you to 
their past champions at the last event I attended.  They didn't just 
call them up.  They told a wonderful story in which each champion had a 
part and as each name was spoken in the tale, the person either returned 
or received the insignia of the office.

I also remember one of the first events that Chemin held where it turned 
bitterly cold.  My lord and I had chosen to camp and spent the first 
night shivering in our tent.  However, on the second night we joined 
others who had put up cots in the great hall in front of the fires.  It 
was a large slumber party, but I especially felt how medieval it 
seemed--the long house with everyone around the fire pit or the 
king/lord with all his servants sleeping around him.  The concept of 
everyone having their own private bedroom wasn't that common in early 
period.

But, of course, one of my most treasured memories would be the last 
Twelfth Night the Shire of Northkeep held.  That is where my lord and I 
were married.  And although as with most weddings there was stress and 
troubles behind the scenes with family, etc. the video still looks like 
a 'fairy tale' wedding. :-)

Ismet