Howdy All!

Just wanted to let you know that we are opening the doors at 7:30 am. to get
things set up for the day. Site officially opens at 9:00 am.

If anyone is an earlier bird and would like to help - please come!

Thanks!
~philip

It's also now available on the Ayreton web-site (www.ayreton.org) thanks to
Sarafina.
So....share with your friends!
-Nadezda

MK Cooks' Collegium - Thank You All!

Greetings from Master Philip White,

As the event steward the Middle Kingdom Cooks' Collegium there are many people
that I would like to thank.

The Collegium's staff and volunteers did everything they could to help make the
event run as effortlessly as possible while providing an entertaining occasion
for all of our guests.

Please be patient with me for the length of this post. Please also forgive any
oversights or incorrect spellings.

Thank you to Their Excellencies Ayreton, Henry of Exeter and Nadezda ze
Zastrizl, for their patronage of this event as it was hosted within Their lands.

Acelina was our registration coordinator. She and her staffed helped about 100
attendees from at least four Kingdoms come through gate. Some of who were at
their very first SCA function. Thanks to her and her team including Marissa who
spent most of the day helping her.

Nicholaa coordinated the potluck for our evening meal. Considering how many
moving parts that job involved she did an excellent job. Thank you. And of
course thanks to everyone who made a tasty dish to share with all of us. There
were over 40 feet of food and another 8 feet of drinks.

  Our lunch and the coffee house were provided by Fox Vale under the direction of
Kara. Thanks to her and her team with helping feed the caffeine cravings of our
early birds and giving people an option on site for food without having to leave
site. Her staff was great!

Thanks of course to our many teachers. You are who made this event possible!
Thank you Aasa, Alys Katharine, Ann, Berengaria, Bojei, Caitriona, Edouard,
Elayne, Elizabeth, Eoghan, Felice, Gianetta, Gavin, Giles, Gwyneth, Hauviette,
Helewyse, Iago, Johann, Kara, Kateryn, Katherine, Kiritsubo, Nicholaa, Raphael,
Richard, Sarra, Suzanne, Tacit, and Verena. Just a few of them had real life
intervene so that they could not make it the day of the event but we were glad
to have them volunteer all the same. Special thanks to Guthar as our guest
instructor and key note speaker.

Thank you Alys for your help in proof reading the event promotional materials.
(She is probably cringing now wishing I had had her proof this email too! lol)

Thank you Sabine for your help on the floor plans. This really helped with our
questions about accessibility and event paring.

Many thanks to Elias for his excellent work as out webminister. He was very easy
to communicate with and did a great job of understanding what materials I was
asking be posted to our website. I believe a good part of our success was due to
having more information up early and with easy access. Thank you for making that
happen.

Thank you Felice for all your work on compiling our teachers' biographical
information. Your experience was a perfect fit for adding something special to
the event.

Thanks to Twm for organizing the walking tour Sunday after the event. It was a
great way to help people extend their weekend and find something else to get out
of their trip to Chicagoland.

Thank you Katherine as the site liaison. You were able to answer so many
questions that people normally don't have to deal with. Imagine a combination of
animal slaughtering, laptop projections, elevator access, and digging holes in
the ground. All of this and she is also the Canton's Seneschal. Her help we
truly invaluable and I feel honored to have worked alongside her.

Our crash space coordinator was Julienne. Thank you to all the people who were
willing to open up their homes. We had many people who came to the Canton for
the Collegium from all over the Known World. Your generosity
made their trips more possible. Thank you for being such great hosts.

Our event set up crew included Katherine, Elias, Elisot, Gunthar, Elizabeth,
Nicholaa, Adam and others. The morning of the event went so much more smoothly
because of this team of early birds

We had to reset the main hall for our evening meal. Thank you to everyone who
helped reset from day camps and merchants to place tables and chairs for our pot
luck so that the transition went smoothly and quickly.

  Our site clean up crew was extensive. Many hands make light work. We were able
to close out site even earlier than expected which was very much appreciated by
all. Thank you!

The Canton of Vanished Wood officers and populace played an important part in
making this event even happen. They adopted the Collegium after a last minute
scheduling conflict even though their annual event All Souls (please come to
that too!) was scheduled just two weeks later. They are an amazing group and a
pleasure to work with. I am not sure another set of people would have been able
to pull it off with such ease.

Now, I have most likely let one or two of you slip past my notice. Please do not
think that I appreciate your service any less. It is my lack for missing you –
or you are just exceptionally good at being modest. Hopefully I will catch you
later, recognize your face, and be able to thank you in person.

Many people made this event happen and I am thankful for the Canton, friends in
Ayreton, and the rest of the
Kingdom for making it such a wonderful time.

Your Servant to Command,
~ philip white

On 29 Oct 2010, at 9:26 AM, Jill Elaine Hughes wrote:

> Some of you may know that in my mundane life, I'm a novelist. I write under a
pen name, "Jamaica Layne." I wanted to alert everyone that today, my novel
TENDER IS THE KNIGHT, which is a contemporary romance novel set in the Society
for Creative Anachronism, releases from Decadent Publishing. 
www.decadentpublishing.com.  It's a fictional story with fictional characters,
but it depicts the SCA accurately and positively.  Hope you'll check it out, and
also spread the word!  The novel is currently out in ebook format and will be
out in trade paperback in a few months.
>
> Best,
> Marissa de Courette


This sounds like a fun read, and it'll be good to see the SCA depicted as a
society of those who admire courtesy, honor, and education, instead of just a
pack of costumed weirdos, like we usually get painted. Let us know again when
the book comes out in paperback, will you? It seems a nice thing to sit back and
read on a lazy Saturday afternoon, and I'd like to support one of our own.

Also, I hope I have your permission to forward this to other email lists, such
as other kingdoms and the Newcomers list, and so on.
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In 1885, Elizabeth Wardle--a friend of the noted medievalists William
Morris--saw the original Bayeux Embroidery and decided that Britain
did a copy. Enlisting the aid of someone who could dye the yarn to
proper tones and an army of embroiderers, she did just that, creating
an accurate embroidered copy of the Embroidery. It was widely shown,
but ran out of funds for the tour in Reading. Reading bought it for
300 pounds. In the late 1990s, it was cleaned and put on exhibition
at the Reading Museum. It is, quite frankly, astounding and even more
so when you realize how little known it is!

I knew of the copy but had thought it further inland, but pals in
Reading let me know it was here and asked if I wanted to see it. As
you might imagine, I jumped at the chance! They allow cameras in the
museum, so you can well imagine that I took advantage of it. My only
regret is that I didn't photograph every panel, but a pamphlet I
bought at the museum had a photo of the whole thing.

The yarns were dyed with the same pigments probably used in the
original, so the colors of the piece are probably close to what those
of the original had been. The method of embroidery was the same as
that used on the original, and Miss Julie spent a lot of time with
her head against the glass, gazing on the actual stitches. We have
uploaded some of the photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/folo/sets/72157625141252457/

Cheers, Folo

>I enjoyed the pictures of the embroidery. SO beautifully done and
>detailed.  And I oddly see to recall this from some where.... and
>the it hit me like and apple from a tree right in me noggin!!! I
>have a copy of it the whole thing in my Virtual Fighting Arena that
>I bought in a place called Second LIfe.  As I reacall its
>identical.  But I have to confess, your pictures tho limited, do
>itmore justice then my computers graphic card does in a virtual
>world. Thank you so much for kindly sharing this. Again I enjoyed
>its splendor thru your eyes.

Seeing it was such a pleasure that I had to share it!  And I was just
so happy that I spent the money for a new camera which did a better
job than any older one ever did!

Thanks for the thanks (Depart of Redundancy Department...)

Cheers, Folo

Greetings all!

Space is being made available to me for a baronial court at next weekends' All Souls event. As his excellency will be unavailable that day, I would request business that anyone would like to bring to court be addressed to me so that we can schedule accordingly.

Also, as I anticipate this being a brief court, I would like to invite any heralds who are perhaps a little on the new side, that would like to herald for me during that court, to contact me in advance.

Thank you,

Baroness Nadezda

----- Original Message -----

From: Amy Gibbons

To: Ayreton@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:04 PM

Subject: Re: [Ayreton] Servers for All Souls Event

 

Aaron and I would like to serve.  We have before.  Mundane names are Amy and Wayne and we are from Ravenslake.  This year we are official SCA members and have our blue card.  I am proud of that one.  Brigitte.

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From: Thomas Hughes <thomashughes06@...>
To: Ayreton@yahoogroups.com; vanished_wood@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, October 24, 2010 9:05:54 PM
Subject: [Ayreton] Servers for All Souls Event

 

Dame Nicholaa Halden asked me to post this for her.  She needs six servers to serve feast for All Souls.

 

Sean

 

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