[MR] [Fwd: Re: Site damage]

[Glynis Gwynedd]

The words of Baroness Gwynwilf and Mistress Rhiannon are well written,
well spoken, well meant, and well taken.  I took the liberty to
forward the missive to my local group, and one of the suggestions made
(by Lady Margaret Sayher) was to ask the site owner to write you a
letter of recommendation after an event about how your group left it
"crystal clean".

My next statement is not meant as anything other than an observation,
but it seems to me that part of the responsibility for the site being
trashed falls upon the autocrat of the event to make sure that there
are cleanup crews available, and to double check the work of those
crews.  I know that one of the last things the autocrats in our group
do is to do a walk-through with a trash bag in hand and pick up every
little piece of trash that might have gotten missed.  We also keep
trash "cans" (recycled boxes that the park gives us) all over the
site, which makes it obvious where trash should co.

On the same note, however, it does fall to the people who attend the
event to pick up after themselves and follow the rules.  Finding
liquor bottles all over a dry site would certainly make a site
owner/manager unwilling to let a group use their site again.

As to the other offenses, I've never had to encounter those and have
no input on them.

I second what was said about $20-$30 a person to use sites... there is
an event up north that we cannot attend any more because the cost got
so prohibitive at $15 a person for daytripping.

We're all adults, and those that aren't adults have adults with them.
Let's all police ourselves and each other, and if you see trash, pick
it up.  The SCA used to have a reputation for leaving a site better
than it was when we arrived - let's rebuild that reputation.

-- 
~Lady Glynis Gwynedd
Barony of Highland Foorde
"Have you hugged a harp today?"