[Sca-cooks] [OT} Questions about groups that cover large geographical areas

[Mark.S Harris]

Greetings,

This message came across the Ansteorra mail list today. I know that
some of you are from groups that sound like they are very much in a
similar situation to Susan's group, so I thought I would post this
here, even though it is off-topic for this list. Please reply to her
using her email address below rather than to this list, although if
you wish, please copy me since this might be a good topic for a
file in the Florilegium.

Thanks,
   Stefan

> I have a question for anyone who has lived in a Barony or group that is/was
> over a large geographical area.  How did you keep people involved in the
> group at large, when it was difficult for them to come into the population
> center very often; but want to stay apart of it as opposed to starting an
> insipient group of their own?  I would love to hear of all the different
> things you all have known of, because I have had quite a few people that
> this question applies to in our group during my 5 months as Hospitaller and
> have no examples to fall back on.
>
> Also, please forward this on to any others you know in the Known World who
> could help me with this question, just keep my tagline with it so the
> answers will find their way back to me.  Things I have found that help;
> group e-mail list, getting them to submit to the Baron's Newsletter, demos
> in their area, occasional meetings of different guilds there and gatherings
> that are unoffical just to get together.
>
> Elements that affect this, we are way out on the edge of our Kingdom, we
> are called Northkeep and I heard it best described recently as "Go
> North..Keep Going" and that decribes us well.  Also, our lands and the
> unclaimed lands within the kingdom near us, cover much of the Eastern side
> of Oklahoma.  For those not familier with Ok, this is the lands that were
> unclaimed during westward expansion (other than by the Osage as their
> hunting grounds) and the US Gov't 'removed' the 'Indians' to.  This area
> isn't mountainous, but very hilly and very woody with lots of rivers,
> creeks and lakes and native wildlife.  Thus making it unfriendly for
> regular travel over a distance.  I think that covers the main points, for
> those looking us up on a map, we are in Tulsa and our Canton Runel is in
> Mcalister.  One other component, in this area are at leaste 4 state
> colleges and we have had interested people near 2 of them and the other is
> in the area of our canton.
>
> Thank you in advance for all the stories you are able to send to me.  As my
> name indicates, I am a very curious person and love to hear stories of the
> human condition and expecially as they work to make community, so please
> send as much details as you have the desire to write.  Thanks again,
>
> Susan the Curious
> Hospitaller
> Barony of Northkeep
> Ansteorra
> Susan-the-Curious at swbell.net
> http://northkeep.ansteorra.org/hospit/hospitaller.html