SC - RE:SC- Brizzare Hobby-NOT! OT

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/21/00 3:30:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

<< Apologies to the List for presumptuous statements...again.
 
 Balthazar of Blackmoor >>

No apologies necessary as far as I am concerned. Different shire folks have 
different experiences. I have heard it time and time again the story that you 
posted. It saddens me but I realize that various local groups in the SCA have 
varying degrees of success in fulfilling the 'official' function of the SCA 
as described in corpora. I am a very lucky person. We have a mailing lis of 
over 100 unofficial members and only a handful of them are college students. 
The main portion of our local membership are settled folks with real jobs who 
are a part of the community. This makes the difference, IMO. Also our shire 
is 18 years old which goes a long way in becoming a part of the 'nonprofit' 
groups in the area. I was not insinuating that other shires are as lucky as 
we are although I was thrilled to see Akim's post. Each group does what they 
can. :-)

Ras