Dante's Pics

[maevebran]

So right now I'm dealing with a bout of Con Crud and so not thinking clearly but I wanted to share a couple pictures of the show Sunday night.

Steve Carlson:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45594972@N06/4463985085/

Christian Kane:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45594972@N06/4463986347/in/photostream/

Anyone in town on April 17 and want to go to the Kane concert with me? I'll go by myself but would love some company.

Comments

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

Great pics! :)

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Just over a month ago I posted a notice in the SCA live journal that I was looking for sister shires for my shire.
You mentioned that your shire is working on it and that you are the head of the baronial committee. I would love to talk about baronial advancements with you if you have the time for it.

Best regards,
Felicitas

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I remember. What information are you looking for? Right now we are working on a draft of our customary. Kingdom is asking for us to get our package together and submitt it sooner rather than latter.

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

Oh just about anything. :)
I would find it very interesting to find out how you are organizing everything. Here in Sweden we have a very strong tradition for various societies to get a lot of work done at the annual meetings. So for us most of the "action" tend to be around them. :) It would be interesting to compare.

Also it is interesting to hear that your kingdom is demanding things from you. :) I think it's so long ago a barony was formed here in Drachenwald that most people seem uncertain how to go about it.

I found a barony that had their petition available online so I'm basing ours a lot on the way theirs was structured. Right now we are trying to assemble the history of Gotvik from old memories, anecdotes, newsletters, protocols and such like.

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

We are in a bit of a strange situation in that we have been large enough to be a barony and in some ways acting like one without being a barony for over a decade. Kingdom and the surrounding branches have been puzzled why we haven't become one before now. We had a few older members who were (and are) adament about staying a shire. So now that the move has come from us Kingdom is anxicous to move things along.

I can email you a PDF of our petition if you think that will help.

The hardest part is getting letters of support from our Peers. A couple who live in the zip codes aren't as active so they claim to have no opinion. Some of the more active Peers don't live in our zip codes. We are apart of the greater Portland, Oregon/ Vancouver, Washington metro area so there are already 2 baronies in the area and another nieghboring shire that exchange people who play in the branch they don't live in.

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

Ah, we've been large enough to form a barony for well over a decade too, but almost a decade ago a lot of the old folks moved so nearly all active members were very new. I don't think anyone of us have even thought the idea that we could form a barony until two of our members brought up the issue about 2 years ago.

We have only two relatively new members who are against this, unfortunately they've caused a lot of chaos mostly since they have jumped to conclusions and haven't communicated with us. But since 73% of our members support this and a lot of people out in Nordmark also support this they've seem to have reconciliated with the fact that shires evolve. ;)

I would love to have a copy of your petition. My email is the same as my username here bippimalin at gmail dot com.

One of our problems is that we don't have any peers, since so many of the old members moved once they finished their schooling and became inactive we sort of had to start over. One old member that became a Pelican is moving back right now, but has stated that he remains neutral.