[Ponte Alto] No advertisement for Blood Bath?

[Katharine Devereaux]

Ruth,

Part of the gate receipts from last years event were paid to the park - as 
is their policy. I do not remember any ugliness except from what I heard 
about people trying to find parking spaces.

Katharine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R B" <catch_the_dragon at yahoo.com>
To: "The Barony of Ponte Alto" <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] No advertisement for Blood Bath?


> Greetings,
>
> I remember people commenting about it being written up
> in the Washington Post.  Wasn't there some ugliness
> about the park saying that because of the mention in
> the paper that it was a "for profit" advertised event
> and wanting more money for it?
>
> Past specifics aside, if there were a flier for the
> event, I'd happily print some out to hand out to
> friends.
>
>  Ruth.
>
> --- Marsaili Johnston <ladymarsaili at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings --
>>
>>   Actually, we didn't advertise it last year.  It
>> got a brief write up in the weekend events section
>> of the Washington Post and the rest was history!
>>
>>   Marsaili
>>
>> Katharine Devereaux <katdevereaux at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>           Greetings Sir Guy,
>>
>>   It is not about the money, it was decided because
>> of the time/energy involved in the event.
>>
>>   This was discussed at both the November Business
>> meeting and the January Business meeting. The
>> consensus at both of these meeting (and those I
>> spoke with outside of the meetings) was that with
>> our other large event 2 weeks before (Tournament of
>> Love & Beauty), it was felt that we would be wearing
>> thin as a group.
>>
>>   If you (or anyone else) is interested in attending
>> this Sunday's Business meeting with a new point of
>> view/ideas, I would love to open this topic of
>> conversation again.
>>
>>   I will have to say that I was not at the event
>> last year and didn't experience the event at all -
>> only had the pleasure of hearing about it on Sunday
>> following the event.
>>
>>   Thank you!
>>
>>   Katharine
>>
>>   Lady Katharine Devereaux
>>   Baronial Seneschal
>>
>>
>>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>>   From: guylestran at aol.com
>>   To: ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org
>>   Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:49 PM
>>   Subject: [Ponte Alto] No advertisement for Blood
>> Bath?
>>
>>
>>     I just heard we are not going to advertise like
>> we did last year for Blood Bath.
>>
>>   Even though we might not have gotten very many new
>> members, I think we are missing an opportunity here
>> (even if it was by accident that we did it last
>> year).
>>
>>   At the very least the Barony made some unexpected
>> money off of the event.
>>
>>   I would be happy to pay for any flyers or anything
>> we needed during the day.
>>
>>   The event seems perfect for this and I know the
>> fighters had fun with everyone watching and all the
>> small children (and adults) asking questions.
>>
>>   I think we need to rethink this before it is to
>> late.
>>
>>   Sir Guy
>>
>>
>>   "Knighthood Is Only The Beginning."
>>
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