[Sca-cooks] Re: I'm back

[Stefan li Rous]

Katja commented:
> Sadira has led weedwalks at every Pennsic for at least
> 10 years, and likely much longer. I strongly recommend
> anyone interested in plant lore and/or identification
> go on one of her walks if you can. She's an amazing
> treasure -- and a fantastic storyteller, cook, etc. as
> well.
Oh! I wish I had known this about the storytelling and the cooking. I 
saw that class and considered going, but I was awful at identifying 
plants in the Boy Scouts and things haven't improved, so I didn't go on 
this.

Well, if I go to Pennsic next year, I'll just have to keep this in mind 
for the stories even if I won't remember which plants are which when 
I'm through.

There was a group at Pennsic this year who made a smelter with locally 
dug clay and used it to smelt locally dug iron ore. By the last Friday 
they had a sizable, partially hammered iron bloom from it. Still, it 
does make you understand the advantages of having a set of water driven 
trip-hammers. These interesting little projects continue and they are 
getting more complex as the years go by.

Stefan
PS: For a humorous story of a past Pennsic smelting experiment, see 
this file in the Florilegium:
P-tale-MWIFO-art  (23K)  8/26/96    Making Wrought Iron from Ore at 
Pennsic 24.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PENNSIC/P-tale-MWIFO-art.html
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