[Archers] Saint Sebastian's Shoot at Pennsic 40 (Thank you)

[John Atkins]

I second Janyn's comments below.  Atlantia not only rocks but clearly
leads the way when it comes to archery in the SCA!  Clearly we showed
the Known World how to do an archery event!
 
Now, in the "not too early to start thinking about it" category, on the
ride home my lady was reading the Pennsic Independents to me.  I'm a
pig, I only read MY articles while at Pennsic, I confess.  However, she,
as a thrown weapons marshal and the originator and head marshal for the
Pennsic Night Throw each Friday of the first week, read the Estrogen and
Axes article to me.  Thus my feeble mind began it's grinding.  How about
next year Atlantia do/sponsor a Lady's only shoot? One station, one day
could do the job and initiate the idea/concept.   Just
saying.................
 
cog

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[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Jay
Nardone
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:10 PM
To: loreleielkins at aol.com; atlantia at atlantia.sca.org;
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Subject: [Archers] Saint Sebastian's Shoot at Pennsic 40 (Thank you)



I wanted to send a thank you to everyone that participated in the Saint
Sebastian shoot at Pennsic this year. We received nothing but praise and
compliments from the plethora of archers that passed through the course.
The only negative I heard were the archers we turned away around 3pm
when we needed to start tallying the scores and re-establish the range
for the champions practice.

 

I have heard many "you did a great job, you you you.." This shoot was
not about me or I, it was about the collective us and Atlantia. I want
to personally thank once again Countess Rowan with fear I will get a
kick in the shins for it, but without her involvement and contacts this
would have never happened! I also want to thank Lorelei and Cog for all
of the support. It is and will be easy for anyone within our Kingdom to
pull things like this off with such a great support team along side of
you. I also want to thank each and every marshal and contributor to the
shoot. For those of you that did not get a chance to come by, some of
our marshal's constructed targets, got them to Pennsic and set them up
the night before, stood guard at the line of their targets all day in
the blazing sun and then some had to shoot that evening on the Champions
team. If that is not fortitude for archery in Atlantia , I don't know
what is? We even had a marshal from the east stand at the pendulum
running it so I could walk the range for safety and take care of our
marshal's. 

 

The bar has been set, we showed all of Pennsic what could be done and
seriously think about helping in any way we can going forward. Our
agreement with the Mid and East is that this should be a rotating event
hosted by a different kingdom each time to showcase their talents. Im
not sure either kingdom thinks of Archery the way we do and they might
not be thinking of such a grand event in the future, in any event we
need to support them without alienating them and causing negativity with
future shoots. 

 

Thank you all again for the opportunity and support to assure we were
successful!

 

YIS,

 

THL Janyn Fletcher... 

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