[MR] Reminder: Feste d'Autumne

[L Shuskey]

Some updated information about the Feste d'Autumne was left off the flier in this month's Acorn.  Please note the following:

Heavy and rapier fighters - please look at your respective sections carefully.  You need to bare the favor of a consort.  Don't have a consort?  Come on up...I suspect we can hook you up!  Heavies: if you have visible heraldry, please bring/use it.

We *will* have a thrown weapons competition!

Children are 12 and under.  The price for early registration ("before 9/14") means *postmarked no later than the 14th.*

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you!

Elize

And here, for the last time, is the flier:

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September 21-23:  Feste d’Autumne (Autumn Party III)

Shire of Crannog Mor, Boone, NC

Autumn in its splendor comes to the mountains as the cool breezes of September blown in.  The good gentles of Crannog Mor invite you to glory in the season with us at our Feste d’Autumne, or Autumn Party.  We have traveled from Scotland to Spain, and now our journey brings us to France and un week-end extraordinaire filled with fighting, feasting and frolicking.

Heavy Fighting: A true knight (or knight-to-be) is as courteous with the populace as he is proficient with his weapon.  To test the merit of the fighter, he will be judged on both accounts by the fighters and the ladies in attendance with a bauble tourney/Pas d’Arms (so visible heraldry is strongly suggested).  He who wins the most baubles wins the prize.  Fighters are requested to have a consort, as the fighting will be preceded by a heralded processional, and the consort of the winning fighter will also receive a prize.  If time and attendance allow, we plan to follow the tourney with a themed melee, French vs. English.

Rapier:  Musketeers, Cardinal's Guards and Bandits. All teams will have a quest set before them and will participate in a town scenario. Wits, as well as prowess, will determine the victor of the day’s events.   Melees will surely ensue throughout the day.  Fighters are requested to have a consort, as the fighting will be preceded by a heralded processional, and the consort of the winning fighter will also receive a prize.   

Archery: We will shoot IKAC and IKCAC on Sunday.  If opportunity arises for a heavy melee on Saturday, we may shoot the fighters.

A&S: During the day we will hold A&S classes.  Topics currently include dance, dying and massage.  (Note: the massage class is planned for after the fighting…)  After feast we will hold a dance & bardic circle for any who wish to participate.

A&S Competitions: 1) Brewing and Vinting – Popular-vote competition divided into wines, meads and liqueurs.  [We WILL check ID, and you must be 21 to even enter the judging area.  Our constable says, “If I can’t, you can’t!”]  2) Bardic competition – You may prepare your material ahead, but it must be your own creation.  Any typical bardic format (story, song, music, etc.) is welcome.  Non-original performance pieces are welcome, but will not be judged.  3) Open-media competition – If you can document it as having existed in France in period, and it portrays France in a positive way, it is welcome.

Feast: Baroness Brighid will delight you with a feast entirely à la française.  Please bring extra feast gear, white flags optional, to this 10-remove feast.  While the exact menu is not yet available, here are a few of the items we are currently planning: elk, moose, venison, wild trout (or salmon), subtleties, and two dessert removes.  Please contact the feastocrat with any dietary concerns.  Seating is limited, so the earlier you reserve, the more likely we’ll still have space.  We hear stories have gotten around about last year’s feast…

Merchants:  We have a large covered porch overlooking the listfield reserved for your use!  There is no additional charge for merchanting.  Please contact the autocrat by September 14th with the amount of space you need.

Costs/Reservations: 

Important:  Bring a cloak, even if you are only coming for the day!  The temperature can drop unexpectedly.

There are several cabins on site, with beds for 130 gentles.  The cabins are not heated and it can get nippy at night, so you are encouraged to bring electric space heaters, electric blankets and the like.  Open flames, however, are not allowed.  If you have a question about your heater, please contact the autocrat.  There are heated showers, and each cabin has restroom facilities.

 

 

 

By September 14

At Troll

Cabins * & Tenting *   **

Weekend with feast

adult or child

$ 24.00

$ 28.00

 

Weekend without feast

adult or child

$ 18.00

$ 22.00

Day Trip

With feast

adult

$ 14.00

$ 18.00

 

 

child

$ 7.00

$ 9.00

 

Without feast

adult

$6.00

$10.00

 

 

child

$ 3.00

$ 5.00

* Due to site costs, we are not able to offer a reduced rate for children staying on-site.  If your group wishes to stay in a cabin together, please send the reservations together.  The earlier you reserve, the more likely we will be able to honor your request.

** Site regulations allow for period pavilions only.  No modern tents will be allowed, but we have cabins!

Make checks payable to:  Shire of Crannog Mor, SCA, Inc.  

Please send reservations to: Lisa Shuskey, 280 Queen Street, Boone, NC 28607.  Please include modern and SCA names for each person, whether you would like to be on or off board, and whether you plan to stay in cabins or tents, or daytrip.  An email address or phone number would be nice also, but is optional.  Checks must be postmarked by September 14 for the reservations to be accepted.

Site and Site Restrictions:  Camp Sky Ranch, 634 Sky Ranch Road, Boone, NC 28607  Site opens Friday, September 21st, at 4 p.m. and closes Sunday, September 23rd, at noon.  Site is handicapped accessible.  There is a camp dog, so please, no pets.  Site is wet, but no original containers are allowed.  Period pavilions only, no modern tents.  Parking is very limited, so please carpool.

Contacts: 

Autocrat/Reservations: Lady Elize de Nizza (Lisa Shuskey), elizedenizza at yahoo.com, 280 Queen Street, Boone, NC 28607, (828) 268-0077

Feastocrat: Baroness Brighid ni Siridean (Kim Browning), Pyrplace at cs.com, (828) 265-4889

Marshal: Sir Godfried of Frisia (David Rizzico), SirGodfried at cs.com, (828) 265-4889

Seneschal: Lord Valen Ravenwood (Jack Richmond), spectre00 at boone.net, (828) 264-2301

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