[MR] Renaissance Horse Faire Nottinghill Coill Baronial Fighter Practice

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Renaissance Horse Faire Nottinghill Coill Baronial Fighter  Practice

Rapier Fighter 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. Rapier  fighting will 
run all day, in various senarios. The planned tourney styles will  be a one on 
one tourney, dice tourney round, wounding only tourney, bear pit  tourney, 
three on three tourney round, and the final round will be the Never  Ending 
Melee. Of  course we also 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 Saturday. 
(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 Lord Nichola Buscelli 
know in advance  (864-306-3502   kattratt at charter.net). 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 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 Lord Nichola  know by September 23rd (864-306-3502)   
_kattratt at charter.net_ (mailto:kattratt at charter.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 CAROW
INDS 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