[Artemisia] Event anouncement: Challenge of Sherwood

[Godwin fitzGilbert de Striguil]

Archers, and other good gentles as well
gather your families or just yourselves, but come all to the Challenge 
of Sherwood!
Saturday July 10th, 2004.

Held in the Barony of ArnHold, we once again strive to teach, learn and 
perform the art of archery.

As the temperature heats up once again in the high desert of Artemisia, 
we shall take advantage of the cooler mornings, and shade during midday 
as we unite once again in fellowship of the bow. Activities for this 
year are various novelty shoots, competitive shoot and of course, 
classes - most on archery related subjects, but not all. We shall try to 
plan for an armored and rapier tourney, so stay tuned. We also want to 
try and get a siege engine tourney started in this event. Full, ½ or  ¼ 
  scale in 3 categories: Trebuchet, Onager-style, Ballista-style. 
Distance being 50-100 yards or so.

This will be firmed up soon, and will be updated in the next month's 
publication, and of course on-line at:

http://www.barony-of-arnhold.org/sherwood.htm


Site fee will be $8.00, with a 3.00 instant discount for proof of 
membership. Children ages 10 to 15 will be 3.00 each, and  age 9 and 
under for free. As last year, lunch is provided in the site fee.


The site is Crossroads Middle School in Meridian, Idaho.  Since summer 
is quite warm in Meridian, the site will open at 9:00 AM with opening 
court at their Excellencies desire.  Shooting will start at 10:00 AM, 
and will run until Noon, when lunch will be served.  Classes will 
commence at 1:00 PM and run until 4:00 PM.  Those competitions that were 
not completed before Noon will start at 4:00 PM.  Site will close after 
final court, which will take place following the conclusion of the 
competitions, and other activities that may be had.


Directions to the site:

Take I-84 to the Eagle Road exit. The Eagle Road exit is West of Boise, 
but still East of Meridian.  Go North (towards the foothills) on Eagle 
Road approximately ½ mile and turn LEFT onto Franklin Road.  Stay on 
Franklin Road approximately ½ mile and turn RIGHT onto N. Nola Road. 
The school is located at 650 N. Nola Road.  As usual, look for the SCA 
signs.


Archery Competitions:

"Short" Clout, Timed Quintain, Bow Slinger, Grouping Shoot, Wands, 
...and more.

Event Schedule

8:00-9:00	Arrive and begin setup
9:00		Site opens
               	Sign-up Begins
                 Range is open for competitors to warm-up
10:00-10:30	Morning “Welcome” court
10:30-12:00	Archery competitions held
                 Rapier / Armored Tourney?
12:00-1:00	Lunch Break
1:00-4:00	Classes held indoors
4:00-7:00	Archery competitions held until completion
		Rapier / Armored Tourney?
7:00-9:00	Evening Court
9:00-???	Clean-up

Autocrat
Lord Godwin
Rich Melton
(208)-724-4375
archergodwin at cableone.net

Co-Autocrat
Sir Sagan
Joe Hopkins
(208)-331-2089
longbowman_us at yahoo.com