Good artisans of the Steppes... As you should know, the NORTH TEXAS IRISH FESTIVAL is coming up the 5th and 6th of march.  Your wonderous works are always an eye catcher and traffic stopper to many of the 30,000 some odd people that come to the festival and see our demo.  On how many of you can I count for a few hours away from the music, the many vendors, the food and spitits, to spend with your fellows showing your wares and explaining why we do what we do.
  We desperately need some new blood in our group.  The NTIF is our biggest and most important demo.  Saturday demo hours are from 10:30 'til about 6:00.  Sunday from 11:00 'til about 6:00.  All we need is about 3-4 hours!!  If you cannot come out, is there a piece of your documentated work that you would be willing to display?  
    Please let me, or your seneschal Jon Rolofsson, know your intentions.  Yours in service to the dream, Bre'nain MacGilla Pa'traic, Steppes demo coordinator

  To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is pleasure beyond compare.
   -Yoshido Kenko, Japanese Buddhist Priest and Poet (born-1283)