[Sca-cooks] other things they dont explain about Pennsic

[Stefan li Rous]

Ranvaig commented:
> > There will be more merchants than you will ever see at any SCA even
> > anywhere
>
> There are also more classes than you will ever see at any other event.
Yes. Well over a thousand different classes. Much of the credit for 
this goes to Countess Alys Katerine who organized the classes for a 
number of years. They have enough classes to keep 17? class tents busy 
for a good part of the day.

And it isn't just larger number of participants at Pennsic, leading to 
the number of classes. Proportionally, Pennsic has *more classes per 
participant* than other large SCA events such as Gulf Wars.

And many of the learning activities there are not formal classes. I've 
watched William the Smith smelt iron from ore, folks turn goblets on 
pole lathes and other folks bake bread in medieval dome ovens in their 
camps.

In private camps I have also had the pleasure of attending Sekanjabin, 
Scotch Whiskey and real Maple syrup tastings.

Stefan
(who attends a large number of classes at Pennsic but whose list of 
classes he wants to attend always seems to be larger than the time to 
take them and has to make many choices when class times conflict)
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    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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