[Moo] Massaponax demo this saturday!

[Barbara Miller]

Greeting all!

This saturday Dec 15 is the Massaponax High School Demo at 8201 Jefferson Davis Highway, Fredericksburg, 22407. Set up will be between 8:30-9:30. We need to be ready by 10am. The games should end by 3:30-4pm. Lunch will be provided (hotdogs, subs, pizzas, sodas).

I have some banners to be hung as backdrop for part of our area. And there will be many tables for display of armor, weapons, C&I, embroideries, game board playing, and your project you are working on or are willing to show.

The students will have their grand entrance about 10am-ish. I would like to have some trumpeters and/or drummers and heralds, but do not to date have any confirmed coming.

While the students are playing the Legends Game, we will be able to show off our pretties and interestings on the tables. This may include armor (folks do love to try on any helms or chain mail shirts in particular), weapons (folks will want to handle the rattan weapons, so the weapons need to be attended/supervised and questions answered. Note that while we may bring metal swords for educational purposes, they should not be handled by the youngsters), musical instruments (harps have been popular), games and toys (youth are getting to look forward to challenging others to board games), calligraphy & illumination (oohs and ahs), and other such items. Bring what you are working on. Wear your spiff garb, and be prepared to answer questions explaining what you are wearing and the times/era it would have been worn. 

Simultaneously to the games going on, in the adjacent cafeteria, the center portion is blocked off by tables. Heavy, rapier, and historical weapons can alternate using the space for bouts and practice. Dante has agreed to be my rapier marshal. and Colum is willing to be my archery marshal and there are other archery marshals coming also. Allen is not able to come, so I do not have a Heavy marshal specifically coming, though Duke Logan is pretty sure he is coming. I hope other marshals will step up and share the tasks of marshaling in the space and seeing all is safe. Some knowledgable folks are needed to prowl around the field answering questions and explaining what is going on. 

At lunch time (12:00-12:45), the games will break for lunch. We then can have a time of undivided attention, introducing ourselves, what the SCA is and what we do, and have an explained heavy and rapier demo. 

Mr Toth would like some mele combat and combat archer demo again this year, from 12:45-1:00. Folks that did the combat archery demo last year, think with me on how to make it more visable to the students and still maintain the safety. And if we do not have many heavy fighters (I know of 4 coming for certain), then would the rapier folks like to do a mele also? I have not heard from Mr Toth final aproval for an archery range set up and the approval to let students try shooting a little (tryouts for King Henry's army?). 

During the rest of the afternoon, we have the wandering parents and siblings and High Schoolers as they are eradicated from the Legends board games. By 3:30pm, crowds have thinned, but there are always a few folks hanging around asking questions, wanting to know if they try on chain mail shirt or helmet, or touch this or that, or get their pictures taken with the Baron & Baroness or with some Knight, Lord or Lady.

Some of the students' projects that they have done for this literature and culture unit will be on display. These can be interesting to look at. If you have small tokens and wish to gift them to projects you like, please do. Also, remember that some of the students will come up and boldly ask questions, but others may be too shy or fearful that their question may be dumb. Do not fear to ask some student who is just looking on if he or she is interested in whatever, or if they have any questions. Make a game of trying to get them talking about what they know or have learned, and it opens doors for us to enrich their interests or make some corrections to the incorrect myths that seem to go around about the Middle Ages... (inaccuracies I have heard like: everyone not is the Church was illiterate, that everyone who contacted the bubonic plague died, that Black Knights were all mean and lawless, & that people used spices to cover the taste of rotten meat...)

The address is 8201 Jefferson Davis Highway, Fredericksburg, 22407. If you are going south on I95, take exit 126, the Massaponax exit, and proceed south on Rt 1. The High School will be on the left. If you are coming north on I95, take exit 118 at Thornburg, go west and proceed north on Rt 1. The High School will be on the right. The best access to the parking lot is by turning off of Rt 1 (Jefferson Davis Hwy) to the east onto Guinea Station Rd, then right into the parking lot. If you are coming from the east or the west, consult your map for the best route or give me a hollar. 

YIS,
Blitha of Wolfhou
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