<html><head><base href="x-msg://758/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Mistress Shanahan, Again thank you so much for this and all the work you are doing for it. We are sure our Populace will heed the call to help and portray the town of Hugh's Town properly . Please, all who support the Barony, come to Populace Thursday night as we will need to do much planning to support our hospitaler in this very important endeavor. We will also be taking up a collection to donate a tree to Dr. Nolan who was so instrumental in helping us get this very important demo. Last year it was fun and entertaining to say the least. See everyone Thursday night at 7pm.<div>YIS, <br><div><div>On Apr 2, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Shanahan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Oyez!<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Oyez!<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Oyez!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Once again, the Board of the Sam Houston Folk Festival has requested that Raven’s Fort rebuild their rendition of Hugh’s Town!</span></b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; ">Last year, the Board Chairman, Dr. Patrick Nolan, did his own research to prove the 1160’s ancestry of General Houston and, despite the misgivings of several of his Board members, he contacted Raven’s Fort to introduce that facet of the Houston history To the Festival.<span> </span>We all know that his gamble paid off and the attendees were enchanted!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This year we, and the Museum, suffered a staggering blow.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Dr Nolan, our benefactor, suffered a massive heart attack and died.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>But his plans for Hugh’s Town lived on.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We had made such a positive impression on the Board members that they were “overjoyed when you contacted us.”<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>That made my job much easier… in that respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>First and foremost:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>they have moved us.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We are no longer inside the white picket fence near the front on the Festival. A team of knowledgeable Raven’s Forter’s walked the Site before the 1<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meeting, looking for the things necessary for safety of the fighters.<span> </span>Then, we met with Mrs. Ruth Samuell to see the Board’s suggested parcel.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>As HE Brian and Don Charles discovered, the area was perfect -- all level, grassy land under a canopy of many, big trees.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Though it is all the way across the Festival site, there is a parking lot only yards away, in which we will have 3 spaces assigned to us for loading/unloading and shuttling use, and there will be port-a-potties fairly close.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The Board’s reason for the move was that we were such a popular attraction, that we formed a ‘road-block’ near the front of the Festival grounds.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>With our new placement, they hope we will draw the attendees all the way through the Festival just to see us…. And on the way back, maybe they’ll spend some more money.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Second:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Hugh’s Town will be more of a true, historical re-enactment than we usually do when doing a ‘Demo’.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The village, itself, is a trading village built up around the castle fortifications Sir Hugh had made.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This year, it will focus more on what was done in 1160 AD in western Scotland.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And each of our people will have an 1160 Hugh’s Town personae to be for the Festival.<span> </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "> This was the time of Richard the Lion-hearted, and Templars, and the Robin Hood mythos.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The garb was simple in lines:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>t-tunics and leggings, tunics, & long robes for the lords; t-tunics, shifts, coathardies with or without sideless surcotes for the ladies. All women, outside, wore head coverings!<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>A coif, cap, wimple, a veil… they just did.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And NO kilts, not even the Great kilts… that was the Highlanders.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Hugh’s Town was in the Lowlands.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Of course, fighting garb is fighting garb.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I’m still brainstorming the kinds of things we can have under the A&S pavilion.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And will be talking more … via the Raven’s Fort list and on FaceBook.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Things like the kinds of foods they ate, the things they made for trade, their daily life, how they made cloth and much more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Now, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten the SCA part of the Demo.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>No, there will be a pavilion with the Hospitaler’s table and the albums and handouts and always someone to man it, to talk of who we are and what we do.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We just won’t be doing that in Hugh’s Town proper… much.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Third:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>At the 1<sup>st</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meeting, there had been some talk of having a stage near Hugh’s Town with performing acts… acts, which we would need to tone our noise down to accommodate.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>That, as you can imagine did not sit well with the fighters.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I explained our problems to the Director, and, at the 2nd meeting, she had an answer for us.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We were not to worry and to conduct our fights as usual.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Vivat!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Fourth:<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Concerning the fighting, there was talk among the Marshals and their deputies of going to some form of regulated, timed fighting for this year and posting a sign with the times for all to see.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>At the 2nd meeting of the Board, that is exactly what they decided they wanted from all performers (that’s how they have classified Hugh’s Town).<span> </span>Double Vivat!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; "><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b>The Festival runs the last weekend in April; Friday April 27, 9am to 4pm and Saturday April 28, 10am to 7pm.</b><span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>So mark your calendars now.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Please come and join us.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>If you have any questions, please email me at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ms_shanahan@yahoo.com">ms_shanahan@yahoo.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="Tahoma">That is all I have to report for the February and March meetings.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We have our land and the basic idea of what they want and a time frame.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>So now we can see about making the miracles that we are so good at doing.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Hugh’s Town, here we come!</font></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Ravensfort mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org">Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ravensfort-ansteorra.org">http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ravensfort-ansteorra.org</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>