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- From: Suze.Hammond@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Suze Hammond)
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- Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. fantasy (long)
- Message-ID: <722249540.AA00000@therose.pdx.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 07:06:00 GMT
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- TP> Greetings, Unto William de Corbey, and to the entire Rialto, from Tom
- TP> Perigrin
- TP> (16'th C mode OFF).
- TP>
- TP> Recently our Barony hosted the Atenveldt Crown Tourney. Since the
- TP> College
- TP> of St Felix was playing a significant role in the tournament, and
- TP> since
- TP> we are supposedly dedicated to Arts and Sciences, I decided to put on
- TP> an unannounced quiet A&S woodworking demonstration.
-
- ......Much deleted frustration follows....
-
- The problem lies with both the event and the size of the crowd, methinks.
-
- We have had both a medieval forge and a spring-pole lathe set up at Egil's
- Tourney in years past, and they drew a constant stream of interested
- onlookers. But Egil's, although not much larger, is a multi-tourney, in
- which there are competitions (and nice prizes) for arts and sciences, as
- well as non-standard and standard fighting. Thus it draws a crowd of more
- eclectic tastes, who will undoubted be composed of joiners and cordwainers
- and artists, as well as fighters and fight-mavens.
-
- You, milord, were playing to the wrong audience!
-
- People who come expecting to see fighting, and to shop, will be interested
- in fighting and shopping! If the populace had known well in advance that
- your shop would be set up, it might have attracted the sort of person whose
- interest was in medieval woodworking. Don't give up. Try a different sort of
- event, though.
-
- (And, it is a good idea to have pre-made a few small examples of things to
- either sell for a pittance, or give away. People like souvenirs. Spindles,
- buttons, that sort of thing...surely you have a 'prentice? :-)
-
- Moreach (who with her boyfriend would have loved it!)
-
- email to ONLY: trifid@agora.rain.com
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