[Regia-NA] New England Living History?

[Sudden Service #5]

    Off & on for the past 3 years I have been looking into starting a Non
Profit Center for Medieval Studies in New Hampshire.  I have been talking
with some people in New Hampshire about the possibility of seeking federal
and state grants to buy the land to establish the center.   The plan is to
open it up to provide a place for schools to bring students & for classes to
be given
in the history & crafts of the period.  Additionally it would provide a
place to hold events for the SCA, Regia or other history oriented groups.
Pax,
Olaf

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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:35 AM
Subject: [Regia-NA] New England Living History?


> 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