[Regia-NA] New England Living History?

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Quabbin?  Central Mass, are you?

Perhaps a phone call to the Sturbridge Village folks to see where they tap
for funding might help?  We had several (CT) school fieldtrips to that and
Mystic Seaport (as well as a few family day trips to both places).

I'd say the main difference is that Sturbridge and Mystic count for American
History, while it's probably a harder sell for an English History site to
American school systems.  (Then again, you are in *New* England.)  Since I
know of no other medieval living history sites in this country, and most
schools do study the medieval period, there might be potential from that
angle.

Perhaps you'd be allowed to thin enough timber to make a spot for a hall in
a forest?  If you opened it up to the public for specific demonstrations on
specific weekends/weeks of the year, perhaps that would work?

I suspect there are other folks on this list who have much more experience
with such things.  I'm just speculating!  But if you've got the land you're
way ahead of a lot of us.

--charlotte mayhew



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Oh so true. It's that horse and cart thing again. Like a business, a
group needs critical mass to really make progress but you have to make
progress to get that mass. Brings back to mind a comment by Mr. Siddorn
about funding from the crown for Wychurst. I wonder what monies are
available in this great nation of ours for living history and Cultural
Heritage. Kind of a stretch but I wonder what might happen....
Perhaps I shall start a quest. To look for Federal and perhaps State
funding for living history/arts and check out the application process.
Heck, if I could get a timber grant from state forest thinning in
Quabbin, we could have a great hall in no time. The biggest stick, once
again will be public access. If you get public money, it has to be a
place that the public can go to. That get's into permanent location and
tourism and insurance and all sorts of "stuff". I have plenty of space
but it's all heavily forested and under the MA Forestry Act(Ch.61).
Similar concept. One get's public money (or at least doesn't have to
pay it in taxes) to keep acreage forested. However; can't be posted,
public must be allowed. Creates a very real conflict when the ATV's
tear it up, start soil erosion and kick up fires with exhaust sparks,
not to mention the noise.

Re: Mr. Tate;

   As the Rebels seem to be rising again, the North must prepare to meet
them. A call to New Regia Anglorum to pull together and raise a
fighting force. I'll have to go back to members and see what we have
North of Dixon County and plan an assembly.  All those large military
bases in the south! I knew it was just a long patient plan for the
south to "Do it again!!"



On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 12:45 PM, J Hill wrote:

> SNIP;  The Regia NA roles appear to show a very spread out group that
> will always have trouble getting together enough people for a good
> raiding party without incurring air line travel.
>
> What we need is a good raiding party to gather & maraud, getting
> sufficient
> booty to enable the rest of us to join them.. subsidised air travel!  &
> where is Robin Hood when you need him???  [totally out of period, I
> know]
> Jennifer
>
> Jennifer Hill
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