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In article <DOCONNOR.93Jan25182804@potato.sedona.intel.com> doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor) writes:
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>I still don't understand why people need SCA sanction to hold their
>events with "narrow recreative environments".

Well, I certainly haven't felt the absolute need.  For the last decade or
better I have more or less followed Bertram of Beringtons advice given
a few weeks ago, and worked outside of the SCA structure whenever my desires
and the SCA's desires were not in complete accord.

The result has been mixed.  I have gotten a lot accomplished...  we have
built a blast furnace and made bronze castings in the fashion of 1540,
I have made a Kent-ish long cottage, and am building a North England
style cottage now...  we have made trebuchet's, done woodworking, and
all sorts of things in our narrow focus group.   My wife has gone from
sheep to yarn to cloth to finished clothing, doing all the steps by hand
(except that we had a professional shear the sheep out of compassion 
for the poor beast).

And because I spent so much time without SCA sanctions, it took me 19
years to get an AoA, and I wouldn't be surprised if I never see any
other award.  My poor wife is still unnoticed.  Thats because almost 
all of these tasks, each of which is probably worth of a Laurel in 
and of itself, was done without SCA sanctions.

Thats the problem... it gets cold and lonely out there sometimes.