[MR] Renaissance Horse Faire Nottinghill Coill Baronial Fighter Practice

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Renaissance Horse Faire   Nottinghill Coill Baronial  Fighter Practice
Arts and Sciences  Information Packet
September  25th, 2004 Union County Fairgrounds    9 am to 4  pm

The Barony of Nottinghill Coill will be participating with the Union County  
Horsemen’s
Association at their Renaissance Horse Faire as a demo for the  Barony. The 
Faire is a tack/flea market/yard sale and will also include horses  that are 
for sale. The site is 
a small fairgrounds with lots of trailer  parking, a large arena for us to 
play the mounted SCA games in, plenty of room  for pavilions and erics plus 
areas for Arts and Sciences stuff. The Faire will  run from 9 am to 4 pm, rain or 
shine. Heavy and Rapier fighting will run all  day, in various senarios. The 
Nottinghill Coill Cavalry will do two shows during  the day.
 
 Arts and Sciences are VERY  important to highlight during the  demo so that 
the Faire goers can get a good overview of  all of the fun  activities that 
the SCA has to offer. The Arts and Sciences displays can be of  just about any 
nature because we are being allowed whatever amount of space we  would like. 
There will be some cover available for Arts and Sciences or people  can bring 
their own pavilions.

Of course we want to promote our “realm” and so will have a  Hospitality 
table set up in the
Arts and Sciences area for the Chatelains of  our local groups to pass out 
flyers and explain about how much fun the SCA  is.

Breakfast and lunch are available on the Fairgrounds from the  consession 
merchants
(funnel cakes, corn dogs...the usual)  You can also  bring items for sale, so 
clean out the attic, garage and back room! We will have  an SCA merchant 
available that will sell our flea stuff so that you don’t have  to sit at a table 
all day. For information about our sale table, please find  Lady Ursala de 
Nunez before 9 am. (864-306-9206) We will be setting up the  
equipment at the site Friday afternoon. If you would like to set up a  
pavilion, please let Lady 
Victoria (864-244-3478) _victoriapringle at bellsouth.net_ 
(mailto:victoriapringle at bellsouth.net)   know in advance. We have to have everything set up and 
ready to go by 9 am  Saturday morning. Breakdown of equipment, pavilions, etc. 
will happen right  after the Faire closes at 4 pm.

Please make sure to keep mundanities to a minimum, bring  banners, etc. to 
decorate and
make sure that you and your party look  appropriatly period. This is an 
official Baronial Fighter
Practice, however,  since it is also a chance for us to recruit more people 
into our Faire  Barony,everyone should be mindful of hiding modern things. 
There will be a  cookout 
at Elaine’s Friday evening after the equipment is set up at the  Fairground. 
Please give a 
headcount of people that will be coming to the  cookout to Lady Victoria if 
you would like to come.

Camping is also available at Elaine’s. Primitive camping is free  and camping 
with a hook up
to water/electric is $5.00 per night per site (no  limit on people per site) 
There is a full 
bathroom in the tack room with a  shower that has hot water that everyone is 
welcome to use. Elaine’s  farm  is a wet site. If you would like to camp at 
Elaine’s, please let Lady Victoria  know of your plans (864-244-3478) 
_victoriapringle at bellsouth.net_ (mailto:victoriapringle at bellsouth.net) .

After the Faire is over, anyone who is interested in eating  supper before 
heading home is
welcome to join us all at a local restaurant  (location to be announced later 
by Elaine). There are a couple of hotels in  Union:
Days Inn 864-427-0308
Best Value Inn and Suites 864- 427-5060

Address of Union County Fairgrounds: 120 Kirby St., Union, SC

Directions from Charlotte, NC
>From I-85 in  Charlotte, take I-77 south about 12 miles, then take the 
CAROWINDS BLVD exit to  cut over to Hwy 49 > NOTE > (((YOU WILL SEE AN EXIT for Hwy 
49 BEFORE  YOU
GET TO THE CAROWINDS EXIT. DO NOT TAKE IT, EVEN THOUGH Hwy 49 IS  WHERE
YOU ULTIMATELY WANT TO BE. BY GOING DOWN FURTHER AND  TAKING
CAROWINDS OVER TO IT, YOU CUT OFF A LOT OF CONGESTED TRAVEL.)))  Take
Carowinds West to a major intersection with traffic light where you will  
turn left onto Tryon
Blvd (or street). That is also Hwy 49. This will become  a back-country rural 
road and will take
you thru a few small towns - York,  Sharon, Lockhart and on into Union. In 
Union, carefully
follow the Hwy#49  signs thru town to the intersection with Hwy#176 (4-lane) 
Turn right, watch for  Fairgrounds on right. At next intersection traffic 
light, turn right onto Old  Buffalo Road. Entrance to Fairgrounds is second right.

Physical Address for camping: Elaine Hobbs, 167 Austin Rd, Union, SC  29379 
(864-426-3638)

Directions to Elaine’s from Columbia:
Take I-26  west from Columbia. When you get to the west side of Newberry, 
take  the
Union/Whitmire exit toward Union (Right at top of ramp). Go about 30  miles. 
It becomes Hwy
176 after you have been on it about 7 miles. GO THE  SPEED LIMIT IN WHITMIRE, 
NOT
ONE MPH OVER! TO COME DIRECTLY TO OUR FARM: As  you approach Union, you will
see a big church on the left with a lighted type  sign on its lawn, and just 
past that, the highway makes a big sweeping turn to  the left. See TWO, WHITE, 
1-story houses on the 
right, PREPARE TO TURN  RIGHT, between those houses onto "Hawkins Road". Go 
about 1.5 mile, see "Austin  Road" to the right, turn and go up the hill. 
Elaine owns the field on the  
left with the mesh fence, and the house is a 2 story brick at the top of the  
hill. You'll see the barn on the left before you get to the house - there is 
a  wide grassy area across from the barn where cars can pull.

TO GO DIRECTLY TO FAIRGROUNDS:
Ignore above and  stay on #176. At the traffic light make a left turn, which 
will keep you on 176.  Follow it for about 2 miles. See McDonalds and Walmart 
on left, watch for  
stadium and Fairgrounds on right. At traffic light, turn right on Old  
Buffalo Road. 
Second right is entrance to Fairgrounds. Elaine’s numbers:  home 
(864-429-0816), cell (864-426-3638) in case you get lost.




EIRIKR INN DANSKI
Deputy  Seneschal
CANTON OF RITTERWALD
BARONY OF NOTTINGHILL  COILL
KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA