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In article <1993Jan25.112235.1@acad2.alaska.edu> asgds@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
>	In his post Cariadoc has basically asked about the feasability of
>setting up a Midieval village along the lines of Willamsburg.
>
>	If such an SCA Village were to be created could the SCA Inc. help with
>the seed money?  

The SCA, Inc. doesn't have that kind of capital to invest.  The
Society actually runs a pretty lean budget--due in part, I suspect, to
the membership howling every time membership rates go up.  (What was
that discussion about how onerous $25 per year is...?)

>I would think that establishing such a village would go a 
>long way towards the aim of the SCA (...non-profit EDUCATIONAL...).  

Certainly would.

>Any 
>profit the village made could be spent on Village up-keep and on sepparate
>annexes; a Viking settlement, an Elizabethan village, (place persona 
>environment hear)....

This assumes that one could raise enough over costs to *have* a
profit.

>	On a related track I have heard rumors of a Ren Faire in California
>that takes place in a permanent village....?

I haven't been over there is a number of years.  Part of the problem
has been that the Ren Faire *hasn't* been run very well as a business.
Plus, while $16 or $17 for a day's entertainment (plus food...) isn't
all that bad, when you take a family of 4 it makes a real dent in the
budget.

Probably the *real* way to build such a village is with corporate
sponsorship or grant moeny from some foundation or other.  Such
organizations will *not* put up the money to buy land, though.  (The
land fund checked into that...)

	--Hal

        Hal Ravn, West Kingdom
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