[MR] Sudentorre is Looking for Fighters for a Demo This weekend
SiegfriedMcClure at aol.com
SiegfriedMcClure at aol.com
Wed Sep 30 19:29:06 PDT 2009
Greetings to the list.
Sudentorre and Stierbach are doing a demo Saturday in Fredericksburg, VA
We already have marshals for Armored, Rapier and youth Armored, but some
of our fighters had to bow out due to personal "house" issues. This leaves
us with 2 Armored, 3 Rapier and 3 division one youth combatants. We would
love to have more.
_http://www.fredericksburgdogmart.com/dogmart/Welcome.html_
(http://www.fredericksburgdogmart.com/dogmart/Welcome.html)
They are charging for the event, but if you tell them you are with the SCA,
you can get in for free. If you show up around 8, you should be able
drive to where we are setting up. After 9, you will need to carry your
equipment in by hand. Our part of the demo will run until around 4:00.
Please let me know if you are interested, and able to help out.
Thank you, and in service,
Siegfried McClure
Seneschal for the Canton of Sudentorre
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From: garadh at verizon.net
Reply-to: moo at lists.stierbach.org
To: moo at lists.stierbach.org, watchtower at sudentorre.atlantia.sca.org,
moo at stierbach.org
Sent: 9/28/2009 2:34:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: [Moo] Dog Mart is this Weekend!!!!
If your not planning to attend University this weekend, then please come
be part of the demo Saturday and you do not have to have late period garb.
The late period garb is needed for the opening ceremonies only. And the
late period garb people, you have no speaking parts in the opening
ceremonies in case you might be wondering...grin.
After the opening ceremonies, we will start up the various fighting demos,
and talk with folks on the SCA, and life in the Middle Ages.
Cairistiona
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From: Barbara Miller <blithaofwolfhou at yahoo.com>
To: watchtower at sudentorre.atlantia.sca.org; moo at stierbach.org
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:30:27 PM
Subject: [Moo] Dog Mart is this Weekend!!!!
Greetings all,
I Have just talked to Chief Green of the Potomak indians. They will be
coming on Friday between 2-5 to set up thier lodge, bring dugout canoes,
indian corn grinding, and other activities. They are planning on having one
trader, one translater (Algonquin to English and back), several warriors around
the chief and translater, and several other tribesmen (and 1-2 women
maybe) in the background. We were talking of what we should have. Yes, we know
we do have a time disparigency (trading was about 1689ish... our garb is
1650s at the latest, and we do not have musket weaponry - but we do have
swords!). We should have one main tradesman trying to negotiate a high price for
the hounds. We will need a dog handler, and menfolks around to guard and
watch the trade against any bad dealings. Greg (of Issacc walton League) has
said to Chief Green that he will find some hounds for the trade. He may
also find some militia men to guard our back. I encourage all to go onto the
Dog Mart web site and read the history and the laws that first said there
were to be no trading with the indians, and then permisable to trade furs
for hunting dogs. Remember, the indian's hunting method was to burn the
forest to drive the game to a river, and then to shoot the fleeing game. That
was outlawed, and thus the indians needed to use other methods to get the
amount of game needed to survive the winter! That is why the hunting dogs were
nessesary....
The Opening Ceremony will be either at 9am, or at 10am. But, regardless of
the time, we need to have the folks who will be participating in the
ceremony on site, and ready to practice what we will do, by about 8am. We need a
main tradesman to barter a good price. We need a dog handler. We need 3-5
men folk around to oversee and guard. We may have a few others (men, women,
children) in the background. (Chief Green and I discussed that what woman
would pass up the oportunity to trade, even if the men folk were doing the
trading. And if there was trading for dogs, there probabley also were
trading of chickens, produce, other items for trade. But we are not picturing
other trade stuffs in the opening ceremonies... dogs are enough for the day,
and the focus) All of our participants on the stage with opening
Ceremonies will need to be dressed in late Elizabethan. Let me know if you need to
borrow garb from Sudentorre's loaner stash. Hopefully, we will have your
size....
For setup, I will be taking the trailer over to the Fredericksburg
fairgrounds site on Friday. Who may be availabe to help with setup on Friday? What
time would people like to meet? It would be good to set up during
daylight. We will have 2 tents and the list fences to set up.... If everything we
need for the demo is in our trailer, it can be locked up on site, ready for
final setup on saturday. Thought is to use Wolfhou's 18x18 tent (for
tables with displays), will need a smaller tent (Siegfried, is your round one
available, to be set up with wall for use of the fighters for gear and to
change or rest?)
Saturday morning, we will finish setting up tables and dispays. We can use
a bow, a crossbow, arrow/bolts (anyluck at having a display of arrows in
different stages of creation, or arrows with the different heads on them?).
We can use some knitting (Miriel?), embroidery work, weaving or spinning or
cardweaving, Heavy fighter gear, chain mail that folks can try on, A
framed (protected from the weather) example of calligraphy and illumination
(Rhonwen, do you have an example that we can put on display?). A food/table
setting would be good also (Geneff, are you available? I can have pictures of
the oven in progress and in use). How about any chain mail weavers? That
and much of what we actually are doing is good activity to get people
watching and asking questions. There will be some information on dogs in period (I
have one copy of Gaston Pheobus, and some research, and pictures... if
others have pictures, book, information, or any "dog stuff" for display, that
would be good to add. The painted floor cloth (with tiles of hunting and
dogs)I have been making will not be ready, but can be hung up as a work in
progress. While the opening ceremonies participants should be in late
Elizabethan garb, others may be wearing other time frame garb for the Dog Mart
Demo! There will be a changing area for fighters.
We have heard back from only a few people. If you are not on this list,
please contact Cairistiona or me.... Who is definitely coming in time for the
Opening Ceremony?:
Flairthri (heavy and rapier fighting and rapier marshal)
Ranulph (heavy fighting)
Miriel (knitting)
Sigfried (Youth combat marshal)
the young ones (youth combat)
Blitha
Eleanor
Allen (heavy fighting and fighting marshal)
Dante (rapier fighting and marshal)
Humphry (may have to work saturday morning)
Sig (Heavy fighting)
We are hoping to rotate some heavy fightiing, then some rapier, then some
youth combat... We only have 4 heavy fighters, 3 youth, and 2 rapier
fighters. So, if any other fighters are out there, please come! Cairistiona has
negotiated free admittance for those participating in the Demo.
I know many are getting tired and a little fried, but let's pull together
for this demo! It is important for spreading knowledge of the middle ages,
the Europe from which the early colonists came from, and good will with The
Defending the Gate site owners.
See ya'll friday or saturday!
--Blitha
Fredericksburg Dog Mart
The 311th Dog Mart Festival will take place in Fredericksburg , Virginia ,
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at the Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair Grounds.
website: _http://www.fredericksburgdogmart.com/dogmart/Welcome.html_
(http://www.fredericksburgdogmart.com/dogmart/Welcome.html)
Address: 2400 Airport Ave, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
(Cross Streets: Near the intersection of Airport Ave and Oldfield St)
The Canton of Sudentorre has been invited to showcase the SCA. We will
have a display on various Hunting Dogs throughout our early History.
The sponsors of the Dog Mart, is Izaak Walton League (IWL),
Fredericksburg Chapter. They have invited us because we held our “Defending the Gate”
event last year on their property, and they really like our group. They
wanted us to come out and show folks what we are all about.
Aside from all the “dog” activities, there will be all sorts of
entertainment to delight just about anyone.
We will set up the display area Friday night; Saturday morning finish
setting up starting around 7:30 am.
Around 9 am, we have been asked to open the festival with the local
Indian Tribe (late period garb for this).
There is no charge for us to participate. You must wear garb and be part
of the demo in one fashion or another. You will be able to get into the
festival for free.
Non-fighters: request you wear late period garb.
I need heavy fighters
I need rapier fighters.
I need youth fighters.
I need people who will talk to visitors who stop by.
I need marshals for this event (including youth).
I need several people who will to talk to the crowd about what the
fighters are doing, the fighting styles, the equipment they are wearing, the
swords, etc…
After each demo, field questions. Kids love to talk to the fighters.
We will provide shade, drinks, and snacks. We will have an area for you
to store your equipment out of sight. We have plenty of space for
fighting. Most of the days activities will end around 4 pm (maybe 3 pm for us).
I would love to see two dozen fighters each come out in your best armor
and garb. The more fighters we have, the more different types of fighting
can be demonstrated.
If you can come, please contact me as soon as possible.
Cairistiona
Demo Coordinator
_garadh at verizon.net_ (mailto:garadh at verizon.net)
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