[Ponte Alto] There WILL be practice!!!!!

[agnes daunce]

Are they still referring to barional marshall/deputy as knight marshall? 
Agnes Daunce


--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Max Nelson <maxntropy at att.net> wrote:

> From: Max Nelson <maxntropy at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ponte Alto] There WILL be practice!!!!!
> To: "The Barony of Ponte Alto" <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 1:05 AM
> Cosimo:
> 
> Connor is the Knight Marshal of the Barony.  I, like
> Duncan, am a  
> Deputy Knight Marshal of the Barony.
> 
> To my knowledge, I do not believe we have an official
> policy for who  
> has the "right" in their office for canceling
> practice and thus I do  
> not believe there is an official policy for un-canceling
> practice --  
> other than at the discretion of the Knight Marshal (I'm
> assuming).  I  
> do not think we need any such policy.  We had discussed a
> few times  
> (notably after the last time practice was cancelled early
> on threat of  
> rain) that it would *not* be policy to cancel practice last
> minute  
> because of rain (particularly the chance of rain).  In
> fact, Duncan  
> and I just had a discussion about not canceling practices
> last minute  
> on Sunday at the Baronial meeting.  I am certain that the
> discussion  
> was simply forgotten and with the announcement of the
> cancellation of  
> the Rapier practice, Duncan reacted with a perhaps more
> traditional or  
> historic response.  Communications are often imperfect
> (quite often  
> when I'm involved), and everyone forgets things
> (again... me most of  
> all).  I think we've been balancing duties,
> responsibilities, and  
> authorities pretty well, all things considered, and I
> consider it a  
> personal boon and blessing to have Duncan doing such
> Yeoman's work for  
> us all as a Deputy.
> 
> Our practice is currently in a public park where we are
> authorized to  
> engage in our activities on our practice dates.  We need to
> have a  
> Marshal present.  With me there, we have a Marshal there. 
> With Baron  
> Jurgen there, we had two Marshals there.  To hold our
> practice, we  
> just need to ensure that conditions were not dangerous,
> that those  
> present have waivers signed, and that there is a warranted
> Marshal.   
> These conditions were all easily met.  Conditions are not
> inherently  
> dangerous because of the chance of rain or even because of
> rain.  They  
> are dangerous when rain becomes electrified by the presence
> of  
> lightning.  The Northern Army of Atlantia's policy is
> to fight in the  
> rain unless and until there is lightning -- wherein the
> rain becomes  
> dangerous.  We have discussed the same policy here (as
> above).   
> Naturally those who choose not to come out in the rain are
> always free  
> to do so.  But as long as we have a Marshal willing to be
> at practice  
> regardless of the rain, than we should not deny fighters
> the chance to  
> fight and learn simply because they might get a little wet.
>  I don't  
> mind Marshaling, training and/or fighting in the rain if it
> helps at  
> least one other person... and I believe today (as
> previously), it did.
> 
> Baron Jurgen, Demian, Sophia, Kat, and Semja (who was
> driving down  
> from Philadelphia for the practice and was significantly
> looking  
> forward to fighting and interacting with our folks) all
> showed-up and  
> got good tutoring and exercise work in today and Kat passed
> her  
> Scholum final examination -- there wasn't a drop to be
> seen, and it  
> was quite lovely (particularly after Ledo's).  We know
> that at the  
> very least Ru and Lauren who would've shown up for
> training failed to  
> do so because of the cancellation -- and their presence was
> sorely  
> missed.  I wish we could've shown Semja a better time
> for all his  
> driving with some fighting, but we did the best we could,
> given the  
> circumstances.
> 
> I'm pretty sure you'll find that those who managed
> to attend found the  
> practice rewarding (particularly Kat who is now a
> Legionnaire with  
> successful completion of the 101 Curriculum along with Dem,
> Jurgen,  
> Sophia, Sian, Corey, etc...) -- though I'm sure they
> can speak for  
> themselves if they so choose.
> 
> In service,
> 
> Max Von Halstern
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