[Artemisia] Every newsletter should have an event just like this one... (apologies to Spamalot)

[Freydis the Good]

Cute....

Ok, so now the question is... since you obviously have a GREAT
imagination, why are you not writing imaginative stories(instead of
events) and submitting them to the Sage???

-- 
SMILES!!!
THL Freydis
Kingdom Chronicler

~The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything they have.~




On 9/10/07, Cat Clark <cat at rocks4brains.com> wrote:
> Mistress Sister Wanda from Oleo just rang me up and asked me to post
> this as a last minute event reminder for the folks over there in the new
> shire in Meadow Vole.  Sister Wanda wants everyone to know that stories
> of the damage that the wildfire did are not anywhere near as bad as the
> news reports have led everyone to believe.
>
> ttfn
> Therasia's Evil Twin
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <irresponsible humorous incipient post warning>
>
>
> September 13-15, 2007
>
> The Shire of Grand Phenwykc presents:
>
> SEKIGAHARA-FU!
>
> A Grand Event to Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the Battle of
> Sekigahara
>
>
> Leave those shields at home! All proud followers of the Tokugawa Baikufu
> will gather on September 15 – 13 at the Emma Fielding Young Campground
> in the Curfew National Grassland to celebrate the triumph of Edo over
> Osaka at the Battle of Sekigahara 400 (and a few) years ago. Heavy
> fighting activities will include a Japanese style pas-de-armes
> (wakasashis at the barrier!) complete with Helmschau (Japanese helmets
> only please); single-sword and naginata resurrection melees to
> commemerate the Tokugawa vicitory at Sekigahara, and a broken field
> battle (single sword, naginata and combat archery) on the realistic
> battlefield on the firescar from this June's 60,000 acre Jackpot-East
> wildfire in adjacent Jarbidge-Oakley National Forest. This battle
> promises one of the most realistic settings for an SCA battle ever
> available, complete with still smoldering stands of blackened trees and
> charred desolate ground completely in keeping with the destruction of
> the Sekigahara Plain after part of the batttlefield was set ablaze by
> the Hojo Handgun Troops.
>
>
> For the rapier fighters out there, we plan a full day Saturday of melees
> and a tourney of the roses. Leave your weapons at home since all light
> fighting activities will be with shinais (provided at the site) to keep
> in keeping with our Nipponese theme.
>
>
> The Box Elder County West Bowman have graciously lent us the use of
> their field archery range a short mile and a half from the campground,
> where we will have a roaming field archery target archery tourney on a
> Japanese theme (44 inch or longer arrows only). We do need more archery
> marshals to escort archery parties through the field course – please
> call Master Master His Lordship Robert the Misplaced to volunteer (there
> is elk jerkie from Robert's 700 lbs elk he bowhunted last year and also
> 22 inch oxford cedar arrow blanks for all archery marshals who help
> out). We will award bonus points in the archery competition to everyone
> who brings their own silk bowstrings made on a kumihimo. The first place
> prize for archery is a kyudo-style bow, donated by Daimyo Sasaki
> Kojiro-sama of the neighboring incipient West Kingdom Province of
> Palisades Keep (Elko/Wells/Steptoe NV) which is attending in force along
> with the Province of Slivered Dessert (Pershing & Humboldt Co., NV) at
> our event (as the Osaka - aka western - side at the battle of
> Sekigahara)
>
>
> Bring your own kneeling mats, chop sticks and sake saucers for a
> fabulous feast fit for a Fujiwara at Hojo's! (sorry – we couldn't resist
> that one...) Prepaid reservations are highly encouraged, limited to 50
> feasters. The menu includes your own bento box full of elk jerkie
> sashimi, barbarkew-fu pulled buta (pork), uagi risotto, midori beans
> with dressing, Shaolin lemon rice, herb rice cakes, deviled tamagu
> nigiri (deviled eggs on rice), and fresh Bonneville Cutthroat Fugu Trout
> Shabu Shabu (buffet style only – we only have one big pot: see cooking
> restrictions, below). Drinks will include Mango Bopo and green ginsing
> ice tea. Feast is $8, send reservations to Hojo's Feast c/o Juan Valdez
> Ramirez (Sasaki Kajiro), 504 Cerro Vista Way, West Contact, NV 89825,
> 702-555-1212.  Checks should be made out to "Shire of Grand Phenwykc-
> SCA Inc."
>
>
> Curfew National Grassland as well as the rest of western-most Box Elder
> County and adjacent Cassia Co. (Idaho) and Elko Co. (Nevada) are still
> under strict fire restrictions. No fires or flame-powered lights or
> lanterns whatsoever are allowed in the campground or adjacent areas.
> Please bring flashlights or electric lights only for lighting.
> Generators and enclosed propane camping stoves are allowed on a case by
> case basis. The staff of Curfew National Grassland will be on site from
> 6 to 10 pm Friday and from 8 am to 8 pm Saturday to inspect and approve
> any generators and cookstoves you want to use on site – NO EXCEPTIONS.
> Violators of the fire restrictions will be evicted (no refund) after
> they are arrested by the federal rangers. The lake at the campground is
> open for swimming – at your own risk (separate waiver required) though
> complementary lifeguard services are being provided by the St. Jude High
> School Life Guard Scuba Club Swim Team on Saturday – donations
> greatfully accepted for the upcoming school year).
>
>
> There are 12 full hook-up RV spaces at the campground – call the Curfew
> National Grassland office in Meadow Vole, ID to make reservations (NOT
> available on a drive-in basis). There are no shade trees left in the
> area so please remember to bring a sunshade.  There is plenty of botable
> water onsite. Autocrat: Sister Wanda Marianni (Mistress Merriweather
> Schneesturm), St. Jude High School, Oleo, Idaho, 83399, email:
> sisterwanda at rocks4brains.com, phone: 208-767-2676 (Please no call
> between 8 am and 3 pm, 6 pm to 8 pm or after 10 pm).
>
>
>
>
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