[Moo] Massaponax demo this saturday!

[JL Badgley]

I am more than willing to help announce people.  I will see what I have for
heavy and bring what I have got (I still need a set of arms and a better
cuirass), as well as rapier gear.  I'll also bring my montante and can go
through some of the plays of the montante for folks if desired.

-Ii


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Barbara Miller
<blithaofwolfhou at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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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