[MR] Long term Pennsic Merchant thrown out without warning

[Sharon Gordon]

Forwarded from Midrealm List:

From: Drew Nicholson [drewski at techsanctuary.org]
Read below.  Then please join me in signing the petition that I either
hope will be already going on site, or will create when I get there.
Don Iolo deserves an apology and a refund of his money, at the very
least.

Purple
(please cross-post)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hertzberg [mailto:s_hertzberg at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:00 AM
> To: livre_de_combat at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [livre_de_combat] Not sure what to say
> 
> 
> Please feel free to forward this email as you see fit.
> 
> And you thought rapier rules could be annoying...sigh.
> 
> Gwenneth and I are leaving tomorrow morning for Pennsic.  As 
> I am winding down for the night, ready to head to bed to 
> prepare for the long drive, I received a phone call.  HL 
> Eleanor informs me that Master Don Iolo Fitzowen, newest Lion 
> of Ansteorra, and my master...
> 
> has been kicked out of Pennsic.  Apparently he was approached 
> today by one of the owners of Coopers Lake, accompanied by a 
> Marshall.  She informed him that because he was having 
> customers shoot boffer quarrels at the side of the pavillion 
> to demonstrate the crossbows, he was being kicked off site.  
> When Iolo offered to stop the practice, as he did not know it 
> was illegal, she produced the paperwork to kick him out, 
> already filled out.  Iolo has been going to Pennsic, selling 
> crossbows, and having people shoot the side of the pavillion 
> for 17 years.  He has been in the same spot in the market for 
> at least the last 9 that I know of.  He is currently on his 
> way home.  
> 
> As those who know me are aware of, I am not one to be short 
> of words...but this...I am speechless.  This is insane.  I 
> have no idea what to do, or who to complain to, but this 
> is...rediculous.  No warning, no appeal.  Simply get out.  
> Iolo apparently says he will no longer go to Pennsic, and I 
> can hardly blame him.
> 
> Gwenneth and I leave tomorrow morning.  I will not be able to 
> answer email til our return.  But I thought that people 
> should know about this...injustice.
> 
> In service to Crown and Kingdom, I remain,
> Lord Avery Shaw
> Apprentice to Master Don Iolo Fitzowen
> Cadet to Baron Don Aubrey de Baudricourt