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A 'working model village' will run into many of the problems that
colinal williamsburg or Sturbridge village (Mass) does:
the temporal disruption of a continual stream of moderns;
not to mention the resources problem (was reading of an
attempt to build with 'period' methods a house at
williamsburg, and the problem they had in getting
the really big timbers: currently 6 inch dia is considered
big, then it was 'tad on the small side')

As to the SCA/Moderns interface problem, well that
takes on a number of complications.  Being part of
MacFlandry's Household Troop slash Regiment (one
'purely' society, the other the Civic events parade
unit) the usual split was that as a member of the Troop
one was 'Nikolai Petrovich in service to his adopted
clan a long ways from home, but that's another story ..."
in the regiment I was 'playing '365, a member of a
regiment of foot.  In the first instance I would go on
at length about how a mad russian monk wound up in
Scotland, blah blah blah.  In the second I would
explain that "this is pretty much what the American
Revolution was fought with, blah blah blah.'

Not saying it can't be done, but it causes some
mental side swipes.  How many of us wore our
garb to a mundane costume party and realized that
in garb you are 'person A' but the rest of them
are playing dress up?

hey, its role playing w/ one to one scale figures.
It's mostly harmless.

chus
pyotr

p.s.  When does he figure to start and what's the
chances for an apprentice woodwright finding a
master in the area??????

 

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Pyotr aka Peter D. Hampe : eka pyotr@halcyon.com
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