[MR] Renaissance Horse Faire : Heavy Fighter Information Packet

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Renaissance Horse Faire     Nottinghill Coill Baronial  Fighter Practice

Heavy 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. Heavy fighting will run all day, in 
various  senarios.  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 Lord Dietric von Hessen know in advance (803-593-6512) 
_dvonhessen at hotmail.com_ (mailto:dvonhessen at hotmail.com)  . 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 
Lord  Dietric 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 
Dietric know by  September 23rd (803-593-6512) _dvonhessen at hotmail.com_ 
(mailto:dvonhessen at hotmail.com) 

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.
 
 
In service,
 





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