[Regia-NA] raising his head again

[rmhowe]

mik lawson wrote:
>  
>  From another list,appologies if you spray your breakfast over your pc 
> while picking up your morning mail.
>  
> http://www.rencentral.com/sept_vol1/Sept2000.shtml
>  
> I believe that this chap has been brought up before but for those of you 
> who haven't seen this,,,,,,,,,
> Regards,
> Mik

When I first saw it my immediate reaction was the Texas Renaissance 
Faire, where things get progressively stranger the farther south
and west you seem to go. However, I see from the bottom he lives
in Arizona (where your brains bake about 120 degrees F.).

Our Rennies here in NC don't get anywhere near as strange as Texas
in the collections of photos I've seen of them on the internet.
I don't think I've seen anything remotely medieval in what I've seen.

However, we NC SCA took special care to put up banners proclaiming
that we were local, not itinerant rennies, and that people could
do medieval and renaissance all year, at our tenth year being in
the Faire here, which largely began with us and a church.
118 signed up for contacts and maybe several hundred took our
business cards and fliers this year.
Who made the banners?  Little old me.
Prior to that many people didn't know we were local.
So I suppose there is a lesson Regia-NA could learn from
that - put something up when you show up in public.
Ours was as simple as I could make it saying who we were,
stating that we were a local branch, that we did it all year,
and gave a website address. Regia could use regia.org and
whatever NA website is local to them.

Why didn't I put up a Regia sign?  Well, so far in this
large barony of roughly 500 and it is now only a quarter
or less of the state, down from half, I am the only person
actually in Regia, and I'm disabled now. When enough others
finally develop interest we can do that. Meanwhile...
We have a good thousand+ SCA in NC, a great many of whom are
close or old friends of ours. Move us, Move our shop (3
times no less), fix your home after the hurricanes folks.

It's notable he says he teaches history to children.
I wonder if that is a squishable helmet.
It is fur after all. Which I suppose is good if he demonstrates
fighting. :) Darwinism and all.

Love the sorta 1600 AD or later axe in the first photo.
Would have been chiseled steel then. Eisenhower/Iron Hewer.
Appropriate for the time. >:)

Still, the one renstore article I've always really liked was
the one about making al Barran's Bell.
http://www.rencentral.com/archives/archives.shtml

I know that some Scandinavians did a replica of a bell they
found in a viking harbour. But it's been a long time since
I visited that page. As I recall it was winter and they
had a yurt/ger up in the background. The Mongols survive in
temperatures down to -50 degrees fahrenheit in those. The
general temperature difference is only about 15 degrees as
the air in a yurt changes about twenty times per hour.
In the winter the felts on them may get up to two inches thick,
or roughly eight layers.

Will Wychurst have a bell? I know of bellfounders in England.
Kim no doubt wants an auroch horn.

Magnus