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Howdy, unto the net, from Thomas etceterus...

Some of the recent discussions on the net have given me an idea.  Once the
1992 Arizona Rennaisence Festival is over, I am going to explore the idea
of a series of narrow focus events with a moving time frame.  The idea
is to re-enact history "as it happens".   A series of events would be held,
and each one would be a snapshot of a series of events in one "era" of
history.   For example, we might have 10 feasts over a year, and the events
would span the War of the Roses, Henry VIII's 6 wives, the 1'st crusade,
the Great Plague, the little clash between John and his Barons, a few
weeks in 1066, etc..

Each person would be asked to adopt a good persona. The person should be
ina  position where they would be knowledgable of the events, but we wouldn't
want anybody to be Richard III, for example.   But one of the gentleman
servents of Richard would work...  as would merchants, mercenaries, etc..

Each revel would have an announced historical date; May 12, 1565 (for example).
Each person would bone up on the "news", decide how their persona would see it
with regards to themselves.  Obviously Lancastrians and Yorkists would see
certain events in the War of the Roses quite differently.   We could study
1066 with people from Denmark, Normandy, and England all in attendance.

During the revel we would be constrained to discuss only the recent events
from our personas point of view.  No computer talk, no "sca" talk, no filking.
Normans would dispute the validity of Williams claim to the throne
from thier POV, while the Daneish and English would uphold thier point of
view.  Towards the end we might break period to discuss what we have learned,
but for a while it would be "persona-only".

I think this idea mightr work out to be a lot of fun.  Any suggestions, 
comments, etc???