[MR] SCA knowledge in real life

[Peters, Rise J.]

A few years ago one of my clients paid me to write a paper about medieval land-transfer ceremonies, and create a medieval-ish ceremony that could be used by the Mayor of his city in making a grant of land to a local university.  That was a pretty cool intersection of SCA interests and real life!  Plus I got to see the newspaper articles afterwards.

=Caitlin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle L. McDaniel [mailto:McDanielM at aaa.si.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:11 PM
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> Subject: [MR] SCA knowledge in real life
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> 
> Hey all!
> 
> I just had a really great thing happen at work! I got to talk about my
> favorite hobby, spinning at work! 
> 
> Someone working on a paper about Marsden Hartley (an American artist
> working in the early 20th cent. There's a retrospective on 
> him at one of the
> museums in DC) wanted to know if a particular image of what is usually
> interpreted as a star (and invoking Christian iconography) could be
> interpreted as a spinning wheel. I was able to talk to him 
> about the history
> of spinning wheels (and other fiber craft tools), their 
> travel from the Far
> East, and appearance in Persian miniatures and medieval 
> manuscripts. This is
> all stuff I wouldn't necessarily know if I wasn't working on 
> documenting
> spinning and when they appeared where and the types of wheels 
> used, etc. 
> 
> There really can be practical, real-life applicability for 
> all that stuff
> we research for fun!
> 
> **aelfwynn** who's currently masquerading as an archival 
> cataloguer ;-) 
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