[Moo] Demo at Massaponax High School this saturday

[Smith CTR Jeffrey C]

Hi there,

Unfortuntely I'm not sure yet...and may not know until late Friday night.  I fly to California on business early on Sunday and may need to use Saturday to prepare for the trip, if I don't get the things done that I need to do during the week -- and that is uncertain, given that I am in class all day all week and my evenings are jammed with other things...it's just a bad combination of events.

However, if I do come, I plan to bring my CA bow (which was a hit last year), my shield, and a collection of heraldry books.

Barcsi Janos

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Subject: [Moo] Demo at Massaponax High School this saturday

Greetings all,
 
We have talked about it, and now the day is nearly here. I am asking for whom is planning on coming to Dante's school, Massaponax High School this Saturday, Dec 13, from 10 am to 4 pm, and what are you planning on bringing/doing? 
 
We will have tables for static displays and hands on activities. I plan on bringing my set of 3 man morris, 9 man morris, and 12 man morris game boards to have out and challenge players to learn and play. I will also have lucets and string available to "play with". 
 
We will have space for a heavy fighting and rapier demo (tables can serve as a safety barrier, and as you know, we will need marshals). Last year it worked well to have the fighting demos and explanation of what we the SCA is doing during the students' lunch break.
 
The students are playing a (warcraft style?) game that culminated their medieval unit. There are tables, and teams have characters to game with depending on the projects and such they completed in this unit. It is interesting to watch. There are also tables with some of their projects and reports on display. Last year I enjoyed reading many of them. I plan on bringing little tokens (with an attached paper explaining that in the SCA we leave tokens to show that we were interested in what you did and liked seeing your work) for the better projects. Lunch (pizza, sandwiches...) and sodas were also available for consumption by students and us. The parents and siblings get interested in looking at what we do, and in doing something while the students are playing. During lunch or toward the end of the afternoon when some teams are out  is when we get the most attention by the students.
 
The High School is located off of Rt 1 in Spotsylvannia Co. Coming from the north or south along the I 95 corridor, get off the interstate at the Massaponax exit (south of Fredericksburg-north of Thornburg), and proceed south on Rt 1 through all the shopping. Massaponax High School in on the left. Go in the front door. There are usually students to help carry and set up. Coming from Rt 3 or Rt 17, go to I 95, and proceed south from there as directed above.
 
YIS
--Blitha of Wolfhou



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