[MR] New A&S Links Site

[Irmgart]

What a lovely, lovely story! 

Thank you very much for both the story and all the hard work that
everyone has put into the garden! I am certain that it will be visited
very often by Atlantians and others in the Knowne World as well as
those from outside our borders!

-Irmgart


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:19:30 -0800 (PST), Karen
<karen_larsdatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Once upon a time, there was a Garden of Links-Pages, and its name was
> http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/topics.htm.
> 
> The garden grew and grew.  But no matter how much it grew, it always
> seemed to sprout weeds of Broken Links and Outdated Information.
> 
> One day, some ladies from the far-off land of the Middle Kingdom
> visited the Garden.  They were impressed with the breadth of
> information it offered, but were woefully vexed by the thorny weeds
> they encountered.
> 
> So they sent a messenger to the Atlantian Minister of Arts and
> Sciences, for that is the office on whose land the Garden grew.  "We
> are building a garden to enhance a grove of Laurels growing here," they
> said.  "May we copy your Garden, but redo it to eliminate the weeds?
> We will gladly provide you with a copy once it's ready."
> 
> So the Minister agreed to this endeavor, and the ladies, led by a fairy
> godmother named Elspeth Grizel of Dunfort, set about to building their
> copy of the Garden for the Laurels.  It was a beautiful garden, but
> more than that, a functional garden; it was Searchable, and one could
> easily report Broken Links, or comment on Links, or even suggest new
> Links to add to the Garden.
> 
> But all, sadly, was not well in the Middle Kingdom, for soon there was
> strife amongst the Laurels.  "This Garden does not belong here,"
> declared some of the Laurels (for there, as here, such shrubs have been
> magically granted the power of speech).  "These flowers do not please
> us!"
> 
> And it made all of the gardeners very upset, indeed.  It was so much
> work, and such a lovely garden; whatever would happen to it?
> 
> It was about that time, in this very kingdom, that a bird became the
> Minister of Arts and Sciences here in Atlantia.  But not just any bird;
> but a Pelican -- such creatures, also, are known to be verbal (even
> verbose) from time to time.  And the Pelican happened to be the bride
> of the Atlantian Web-Minister, a lord with magical powers in the
> construction of sturdy webs and nets and other such things.
> 
> The Pelican was not always a Pelican, though; and many years ago, when
> she was a lady (before she was transformed into a Pelican), she had
> once been the gardener of http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/topics.htm
> herself.  So she talked to Lady Elspeth about transplanting the Garden,
> and begged her husband the Web-Minister to use his mystical powers to
> aid in the endeavor.
> 
> Lady Elspeth worked ever so hard to transport the Garden to Atlantia,
> so that no leaf or blossom would be even the slightest bit bruised in
> its transfer, and even helped make it more properly-oriented so that it
> could grow beautifully in its new Atlantian soil.  And the Web-Minister
> constructed a sturdy foundation for the Garden, so that its every
> parterre and pathway would rest on solid support.  And a new gardener,
> Victoria Pringle by name, was brought forward to maintain the garden as
> it continues to grow.
> 
> And already, the transplanted Garden has taken so well that it has
> nearly doubled in size in the few weeks since setting its roots back on
> Atlantian soil.
> 
> And that Garden's new name is http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/ --
> though, like a proper fairy godmother, Lady Elspeth gave it a gift:
> another (and easier-to-remember) name, http://www.scalinks.com.
> 
> The End
> 
>