[Northkeep] Speaking of Memories.....

Tina Michael tinabetta at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 11:28:17 PDT 2011


Love you too Dervi!
 Tina
a new friend

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Tamara Britton <zeurburt2003 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> My first event was a revel and I was very young. All I saw was a bunch of
> strange dressed people who talked funny and made me wear an odd dress. But
> that was 21 years ago.
>
> However, more recently, when I returned to the SCA after a 10 year stent
> away and a move to Oregon, it was at Castellan in 2008. I had a few friends
> I could remember from before and wanted to find. Most of them I did:
> Thorvald, Kevin and Keigan, Facon, Elizabeth, Ulf and a few others were
> among those friends I remembered. I was so excited that I was reunited with
> some old friends, yet saddened that I couldn't find some others. Setting up
> for feast, I saw a handsome man and beautiful woman looking for a table and
> offered for them to share with me. This was my first meeting with Morgan and
> Montega. I also found new friends in what had only been acquaintances
> before: Angus and Ciana.
>
>
> Was there one thing at the event that stood out (besides the hurricane
> Sunday morning)? No...there were lots. Hugs and OMGs and even a few happy
> tears. This one little event not only gave me the chance to see a few old
> friends, but the opportunity to embrace a whole new family.
>
> To all of these friends and all the others I have made in the last few
> years: I love you dearly.
>
> Dervilia
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com>
> To: northkeep lists.ansteorra.org <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Speaking of Memories.....
>
>
> Not at my first event but my first Queen's Champion, for Queen Jocelyn, in
> Bryn Gwlad:  There was a special prize offered for "panache", and some
> fighters were showing it through courtly bows and flourishes, some with
> schtick.  One gentleman, in a rapier-and-weapon-of-choice round, used a hand
> puppet on his off hand.  The puppet taunted the opponent, who eventually
> fell for the bait and began trying to take out the puppet instead of the
> swordsman.
>
> But my favorite bout that day involved a gentleman named Alastair, a
> Welshman.  He was also a real a Welshman, who spoke with a beautiful accent
> and played a mean set of bagpipes.  Alastair was a good bit older than most
> of the contestants, but he gave as good as he got despite his gray beard.
> When the marshals called "Lay on!"  he let out with a battle scream that
> totally rattled his opponent, then chased the guy around the list field a
> couple of times before settling down to business.
>
> In servicio,
>
>
> Talana
>
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:52:25 -0500
> > From: montega at gmail.com
> > To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Northkeep] Speaking of Memories.....
> >
> > My first populace was right before we hosted Crown (in tickville USA) I
> > remember Mercedes telling everyone about feast and for some reason her
> words
> > still stick in my head... "I just had a sample of our feast, and OH baby!
> > You can't miss it!" It made me wonder what feast was all about (Crown was
> my
> > first Northkeep event) So I went and OH BABY was right! I don't know why
> > that sticks in my head but I have loved going to feast since!
> > Anyone else with a fond memory?!
> >
> > Tega
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