[Stargate] Lost and Found... and other such things.
Diane Taylor
dianet_write at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 23 09:37:48 PDT 2008
Oh definately.. that's the same sort of thing that I used to do. Also escorting happy drunks back to their campsite and making sure things don't get too out of hand. ;D Being constable was FUN.
I used to volunteer for night duty at Great Western War. Betwen Midnight and 6 am was kind of interesting to say the least. :D
Ah well, thank you Hillary. I was just wondering.
--- On Wed, 4/23/08, Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Stargate] Lost and Found... and other such things.
> To: "Stargate" <stargate at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 8:38 AM
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Diane Taylor <dianet_write at yahoo.com>
> In Caid they were called Constables. They were the basic
> lost and found, the ones that made sure things were okay,
> usually first ones called when there was a skunk in the
> privies..Yep, the black and white ones. <snip>
> Does Ansteorra have something similar?
>
> Greetings Diane,
> Ansteorra used to have Constable officers in the past, but
> either it feel out of fashion or stopped being filled by
> lack of volunteers or some other reason I've long
> forgotten. The Constables used to keep watch on the
> parking lots, especially when we shared events on modern
> park sites where the SCA was not only at the site; and they
> would do fire-watches wandering camps to make sure fires
> didn't get out of control after everyone was
> asleep.
> Typically, it's the job of the Autocrat of the event to
> record and post items that are lost and found following
> their event. Items not claimed are generally passed to
> the Chamberlain in charge of branch inventory.
> Periodically, the box of things are pulled out and
> displayed at an event for finders to identify; then after
> a year, the items are put on auction to raise funds for
> something.
> Hope that explains it,
> cheers, Hillary
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