[Archers] Pennsic

Wed Oct 27 14:18:46 PDT 2010

Many thanks for your efforts in getting this going, Rowan! Those of  you who have been doing Pennsic longer than I, will have a better idea what is involved to get the ball rolling.  I don't mind being the contact person, although if Earl Mica wouldn't mind putting the bug in the East KEM that would be appreciated.  Mica also listed out most of the details that will need to be taken care of to run a Novelty shoot.  This, I do know something about, having run, or co-run Southern Atlantian Day since we began that a few years ago.  It is a lot of work!

What we are basically talking about is running a day long archery event in the middle of Pennsic.  That takes a whole lot of coordination and volunteers.  How many of you are willing to give up two of your Pennsic days to make this happen?  I think the least of our worries would be getting the targets there, since enough of us have a garage full of targets we could easily toss in the van or strap to the roof of the car.  But, we need to set the range, run the range and take down the range.  Lots of logistics involved in that alone.  Who will provide the prizes?  How will the scoring be done, etc.  

This needs to be a quality, coordinated effort. If it has the Atlantian stamp on it, it can be no less. I will be at Holiday Fair this year, if some of you want to take some time to chat about this in person and get some details ironed out.  I think we can make it happen.  We've got a lot of talented individuals in our group.  If we spread out the responsibilities than no one or two people will be stuck with the majority of the work. (Did I mention I promised my husband I wouldn't "work" this Pennsic?  :-)  I made no such promises about BEFORE Pennsic. )

Lets keep moving forward on this.

Lorelei

-----Original Message-----
From: Denise McMahon <denise at shado.info>
To: Holly Gibbons <holly0920 at yahoo.com>
Cc: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 1:36 pm
Subject: Re: [Archers] Pennsic

I have written to the Lord Mayor of Pennsic 40 and asked to be put in contact with whomever is in charge of Archery for Pennsic 40. It's Baron Devon, so only Lord knows when he'll get back to me. :) I didn't leave it at that since I have one or two friends who are Society level marshals (they are from the Midrealm), so I asked them to please go find out what they could so we could get a jump start on this. It was my intention to give the information to Lorelei or perform introductions and then stand back and let the Archery Community run with the project giving any other support that I could. 

I'm still waiting to hear back- but I only wrote to folks and placed phone calls on Monday and both of them travel a great deal. Those who know me, know that I am rather persistant, so I do think that I should have some good info for us shortly.  However, that shouldn't stop anyone else from writing emails to the Lord Mayor, phoning folks they know or otherwise utilizing their contacts to make this thing happen. The more the merrier might actually get this thing done- and that would be fabulous for everyone, Atlantia and everyone else.

As ever, sometimes the coronet can be useful for something other then an ornate paperweight. :) Just to trying to be helpful.

cheers!

-Rowan

On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Holly Gibbons wrote:

Dear Archer-co-conspirators:

I am willing to work for this. I will bring targets, do the advertizing at Pennsic and ahead of time, whatever needs doing now or later. But honestly, the person heading this up (or persons) need to be able to communicate at the highest level with Royalty and others. Who can do that? DEM Lorelei? Yew-bow-people? Barons and Baronesses? Countesses?

Who is running archery for the Mid this year? Do we go directly from our Fearless Leader DEM Lorelei to the Mid-Pennsic-Panda DEM or does our Royalty go to Mid-Royalty? I haven't got a clue about this stuff.

But truly, the first actual steps are going to be political, once we all decide exactly what it is we are proposing to do. So let us continue this dialog to lay out precisely what we want to happen. Do we have agreement that our goal is a "novelty" shoot at Pennsic, sponsored by Atlantian Archers or sponsored by Atlantian Royalty (this is probably better), to take place on a weekday during war week (preferably tues or wed), in which we take over the entire range (hopefully), set up targets early in the a.m., have a great shoot, collect scores by individual and by kingdom, and award wonderful prizes and bragging rights at the end? Is this shoot open to all, or only to a certain level of archer, or to a certain number of archers per kingdom (like mayvbe 25 archers)? Is there a theme or is it just bring one target each from your stash? Who among us exactly is willing to sacrifice some trailer space for exactly what targets? Can we make this happen on the "back 40" land (and maybe in the woods) if we are not allowed to use the war points range? Can we have this novelty shoot and still have enough marshalls to run war points? (I would rather see war points NOT shot that day.) Will this shoot draw archers away from the champs team and the war points shooting? And how can we get around this and assure the Easterners and Midders who care about winning their war that this won't happen?

So many questions.
Let's draw up the vision and flesh it out, as archers, while the political types figure out how to make this happen.
Nuala of Needwood

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