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

[Stefan li Rous]

Sharon mentioned:
> 3) It's really nice to have a subscription to the Pennsic newspaper.
You can also buy it from the many paper boys running around, but I 
usually manage to miss them once or twice during Pennsic. You can also 
buy individual issues at the Pennsic newspaper office in the services 
area, which is near the class tents. You can also buy a packet of all 
of the issues for a War there.
> 18) If your shopping is very successful and you can't get it all in 
> your car
> or airplane luggage, you can mail some of the excess to yourself.
This small mail station is how I get my extra gear to Pennsic. You can 
now mail packages directly to Pennsic, including in my case, a large 
footlocker. You can pick large items up in the same trailer where 
merchants pick up their packages. It costs me about $30 to mail my 
trunk which is usually about 60 pounds from Austin to Cooper's Lake. 
For the return trip I send it out through the mail station. I do have 
to be a bit careful since I don't have a scale in camp. So the books I 
buy usually get brought home as luggage and my dirty clothes get 
mailed. :-)

Be aware that the Pennsic mail station has *very* restrictive hours. I 
think 10am til 2 pm, Monday through Friday only. So don't wait until 
the last Friday afternoon at 3pm to mail something home.

Postcards and such mailed from Pennsic get a special Pennsic postal 
cancellation.
> 25) If you have things you only use at Pennsic, you can rent local 
> storage
> units and just leave the items there from year to year.  Sometimes 
> groups
> will rent one together.
You can also store things outside at Cooper's Lake for a much lower 
cost. Some groups have been known to obtain a cheap boat trailer, put 
some sheets of plywood on it, put on their stuff and cover that with a 
tarp. Most of the wooden buildings at Pennsic are stored there between 
Pennsics. Often as flat panels stacked on a trailer.
> 29) If a tour of especially spiffy encampments is offered, take the 
> tour if
> you can as you will get to see a lot more interesting things thank you
> might just walking by.
I have attended organized tours of the fancier camps. It can also be 
fun to just walk around and look at all the fancy gates and the many 
wooden buildings that people put up. I do have a collection of pictures 
of many of what I thought were the more impressive gates and hopefully 
will put them on the Florilegium some day.

For folks on the SCA-Cooks list there is also the traditional SCA-Cooks 
get-together and pot luck which has usually been held the second week.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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