[Steppes] [Lindenwood] Radical Idea

[Faelan Caimbeul]

Duchess Julia, can you contact me off list?

Faelan

On 2/26/07, Chiara Francesca <chiara.francesca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please make sure to not represent yourselves as agents of the sca or the
> steppes. In Texas your word is a contract still, Verbal contracts Texas
> are
> still legally binding.
>
> This site owner is not telling you the complete story either and we are
> not
> the only reenactor group that he has tried to get to use his site.
>
> Speak to Duchess Julia for a point of reference on this couple please
> before
> you proceed any further.
>
> Every thing I know is second and third hand thus not fully accurate or
> your
> mileage may vary on how you judge secondary information. I heard the same
> story but slightly different from the previous so I do not know the real
> story, I was not there but I was here.
>
> Chiara
> P.S. Our list of questions for the site owner has grown over the years, I
> will forward it tonight. Or Duchess Julia may have an updated list in her
> files. She is on our mailing list and can let us know.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Faelan Caimbeul" <faelancaimbeul at gmail.com>
> To: "Glaslyn Mailing List" <glaslyn at lists.ansteorra.org>; "Lindenwood
> Mailing List" <lindenwood at lists.ansteorra.org>; "Steppes List"
> <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Steppes] Radical Idea
>
>
> > Ok, ok, I was wrong. I found the site again, and I must have been
> looking
> > at
> > something else just south of Ennis. On the up side, it's only 30 minutes
> > from Tyler which has plenty of hotels, shopping, food, etc.
> > They've got a nice spread of land, however, and it's mostly trees.
> >
> > I got a response from the site owner, who's a SCAdian, and originally
> > bought
> > the site for Gulf Wars, but the King had other ideas in 97, and took it
> > away. So, they have the infrastructure, and I don't forsee the unhappy
> > ending like with a normal bunch of rennies. My Lady and I are going down
> > to
> > the fair and talking to the owners this weekend. He has been offering
> the
> > site for SCA events to Rosenfeld for years.
> >
> > Does anyone have any specific questions they think I should ask?
> >
> > We need to get people down there during their run. Admission is free for
> > us
> > in garb, and camping space is available for those who want it. This is a
> > great chance to recruit people of like mind and grow the Barony.
> >
> > If anyone's interested, please contact me ASAP. Also, we'll need display
> > items for our area as well. I was going to bring this up later, but I'm
> > trying to put together a "demo kit" for things like this with display
> > items,
> > a table cover (which I'm making), tent, tapestries, etc. If anyone has
> any
> > small to medium, easily portable nice items they'd like to donate to the
> > cause, please let me know.
> >
> > Faelan
> >
> > On 2/22/07, Faelan Caimbeul <faelancaimbeul at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I had an idea yesterday, and I'm trying to see if people would be
> >> interested in helping with this.
> >>
> >> It's been said that the only way we're going to get a Warlord site with
> >> everything we want is to build it ourselves. How many people would be
> >> willing to put their muscle where their mouth is?
> >>
> >> I was looking at potential sites for recruiting demos yesterday and so
> I
> >> of course checked all the local Renfaires. Four Winds Renfair runs from
> >> March to April and is never open on Memorial Day weekend. The site has
> >> shade, flushies, hot showers, electricity in the camping area, running
> >> water, a period town and equestrian arena complete with jousting area.
> >> Oh,
> >> and it's all on private property, so we can keep the public out. Anyone
> >> wondering around would be trespassing, and subject to arrest.
> >>
> >> As an added bonus, the site is 338 acres, with woods, stream and fields
> >> (that's nearly twice the size of Pennsic from what I'm told) and again,
> >> since it's on private land, and a Renfair, the option of building
> >> permanent
> >> structures to meet our needs is there. It's just south of Ennis, so not
> >> too
> >> terribly far, and near hotels.
> >>
> >> If this site doesn't work out, there's also Middlefair which currently
> >> has
> >> land, and one building. Period.
> >>
> >> My idea is this. How many people would be willing, at several points
> >> during the faire's off season, make an "event" out of it and form a
> >> working
> >> party to build what we need, repair what's there and make whatever
> >> changes
> >> we and the owners need done for each of our activities? The bargain I
> >> wish
> >> to strike is similar to Pennsic and Gulf War's arrangements of trading
> >> labor, time and some money for a permanent site with all we could hope
> >> for.
> >> Ideally, I'd like to include free (meaning no $$$) use of the site for
> >> our
> >> one event each year (and possibly Three Kings as well to make it more
> >> worth
> >> our time and money).
> >>
> >> Along with working parties we would also have a booth there during
> their
> >> run and have fighting and bardcraft "performance", of which the owners
> >> aren't paying for and will add to their draw of customers and hence our
> >> potential pool of new recruits as well. I know we have several
> swordsmen
> >> that can, and do, ham it up for the crowds on occasion and would make a
> >> great showing.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Faelan
> >>
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