[MR] Event Bids and Driving Distances

[Siegfried]

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Your Grace, you certainly have much more insight, given your unique
position at that time.

However, I will actually second Gorm's statements, from what the
'Northern Populace' saw.  Everyone (at least, a serious majority) of the
folks that I talked to back then in the North (Highland Foorde, Roxbury,
Lochmere, Bright Hills, at the very least), where highly for the
Principality idea, and were very excited by it.

There were special "Pep rallies" for it, we had people visiting local
Baronial Meetings to chat about it, etc.

And it went so far, as I'm sure you remember, to have had a polling done
to pick the name, heraldry, and much more.

Then, to the general populace's POV.  It suddenly, and abruptly died off.

And the only concrete public statements that were made, were that
various border groups were in disagreement as to where the line should
be drawn, and therefore who was in, or out, of the Principality.

In any case ... I will stand up and say:

Yes, I do think that discussions on this concept should start up again.
~ As others have said, over the last 3 years or so, I have heard MUCH
mumbling about how having a Northern Principality would certainly help
with many issues (travel for people, travel for royalty, required events
(Unevent), etc)

Yet noone has stood up and said "Let's seriously chat about this again"

BTW, the discussions definitely took a bigger swing after the Unevent in
South Carolina, when many Northern Groups complained that it had lost
it's 'central location'.  Yes, including Highland Foorde, and yes,
including myself.

Interestingly enough.  We were told that if Highland Foorde wanted to
see Kingdom Events be a short drive to us, that we should complain, but
simply submit event bids ourselves.

~From that day, we started working hard to get setup to do just that.
And we submitted the bid.   To be told that it's being denied because
it's too far North.

:(

Siegfried


logan wrote:
| as one of the crowns during that time who was involved in the discussions
| there was a lot more than some simple dispute over zip codes and identity.
| it wasn't beneficial in many ways and those issues were hardly the meat of
| it.
|
| regards
| logan
|
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it was
| hell."
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
| [mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Alan MacNeill
| Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:35 PM
| To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
| Subject: Re: [MR] Event Bids and Driving Distances
|
| Yes.
|
| Most recently about 10 years ago.  It fell apart over questions of
| just where the boundries should be and regional identity.  At the
| time, folks said "You should look at this again in 10 years or so and
| see how things have developed".
|
|
| On 6/5/08, Joshua Thomas <foreachdev at gmail.com> wrote:
|> Hasn't the DC and Maryland groups pushed for a principality several times
|> now?
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