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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

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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
Nothing says loving like a bun in the oven.
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In article <1993Jan25.233807.5913@nwnexus.WA.COM>, pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter
D. Hampe) wrote:
> 
I have been playing around with this idea for some time. E-mail me will
talk


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