Transcribed
by Stephen Bloch
Jan. 18, 2013
Chronicler:
Encourage your friends to subscribe to the E-Horse (it's
free!)
Musicians' Day:
moving right along, two teachers couldn't make this date
but they've been replaced.
Chatelain: new
Chatelain acknowledged by Kingdom
Northpass:
1)
Magdelena has formally been endourced as our new
Chatelaine. We have much confidence in her and she
has been given several projects to run with.
2)
Northpass has been welcomed back to do a Lunacon
demo again. (Dates for the event is March
15-17...the demo date is not yet set.) Details will
be shared soon but you heard it here first. We are
looking for as much help as possible from the
Province.
3)
Tavern still has space available! The event
usually sells out well before the event so
we strongly suggest those who wish to attend
that they get their preregistration in
soon.
4) Barleycorn planning is
starting...dates is September 6-8.
5) We are (again) planning to try to
do the oft described and plotted but never
executed Florentine event. Hope is for an
October date... Site is Blue Mtn lodge...
Vicereine: Jenna
Childslayer got a Troubadour at Twelfth Night
Historian: mouth
full
Exchequer: we
have money. Annual report due 2/15; on
track.
Chamberlain
(w/help from Alexandre): Feast gear is at Wilhelm's, and
he and Mael Eoin will get it to the site for Musicians'
Day.
WW: Held
quarterly Commons. Eularia is new Seneschal,
Philip is new Exchequer. Melanie will contact
Kingdom.
LE (Brekke):
Guy ran December meeting as incoming Seneschal.
Seneschal: Kingdom
has acknowledged new Seneschal; formal warrant to come
any week now. Reports are in. [E-mail
"alias" of
seneschal@ostgardr.org
now live]
A&S: Brekke
is doing a cooking workshop this weekend, and Musicians'
Day is next weekend. (Guy points out need for
baldric manufactory.)
Archery: had
arrow-making night. Too cold to shoot.
Viceroy: Still
discussing date of Og/An Dubh war.
Beau Geste tomorrow; there exists a pretty medallion.
Knight Marshal:
Beau Geste tomorrow at Grant's Tomb. Had two
practices at Grant's Tomb already; it works nicely.
Upcoming events &
demos:
Bear's Tavern: space still available; please send it to
Richard the Poor.
Northpass asked to do demo at Lunacon 3/15-17; will need
help.
Crown Tourney: [see below].
Viking Day 5/18 12:00-5:00; can set up starting at 10:00
Og/An Dubh War: still working on date, activities, etc.
Riverdale Riverfest: 6/30 (the day after Bhakail
Investiture)
Barleycorn 9/6-8
Florentine event in Oct?
Lions End event in fall?
Musicians' Day November?
Considering demo for Tartan Day (4/6); DKrevor suggests
not doing it ourselves just before Crown, but attending
the parade to scope things out.
Green & White
Purchase: We discussed replacing the
Provincial "big top" demo pavilion a year or two ago,
but it fell off the agenda. General consensus in
favor. Tormundr, Richard, & Ian will
investigate & confirm prices. Officers present
authorized Finance Committee to make final decision.
Katherine & Jacqueline doing costume help session on
2/9 at Jacki's. Bring your problems & we'll
try to solve them.
Tormundr putting in an order for rattan, to be picked up
at Birka.
Crown Tourney:
4/26-28. Philip in charge of gate. Valgard
needs permission to publish people's contact info
(particularly Philip's).
Tormundr is general deputy.
Ian is co-autocrat & drop-dead, esp. if Valgard
wants to fight
Guy will work w/new Earl Marshal.
Budget includes $ for list-ropes and stakes
Lilli in charge of PR
Food crew: Carl, (Alexandre,) Sherri, Sherre, … Need to
visit the kitchen & check facilities. Need
somebody in charge of day board.
Need chief server, various marshals, setup crews,
decorating committee, etc. Have lots of
thrown-weapons and archery marshals available; will pick
somebody as point person.
Rufina will assemble band of shawm players for fanfares,
etc.
Melanie volunteered to be Entertainment Coordinator.
Eularia is Royal Liaison.
Site tokens?
Lada asks about A&S display. It would need to
be indoors, a long walk from the tourney field, but
could do this. Tabled.
Hannah is doing event web site.
Brief discussion of ACCEPS; decided not to use it.
Lada needs to go see the site, as do several other
people (Carl, Guy, Gary, Suuder, Johanna, …). Site
visit and crew-chief meeting 2/9, 9 AM.
Valgard will make up event book, incl. map of site.
Anybody taking a job for the event, please give Tormundr
your preferred e-mail address.
Site is ABSOLUTELY dry. Valgard will check on
tobacco, dogs.
Feast limited to 100 due to hall size. DKrevor
suggests taking a very long waiting list, because people
at Crown often abandon their feast reservations.
Have somebody staffing the seating chart to avoid
duplication, check reservations, etc.
Ian suggests feast tickets, which must be surrendered to
the person at the seating chart. Tickets are
transferrable, on your own. Half an hour before
the feast, all unclaimed seats will be sold to the
waiting list. Discuss on Officers' list to see if
we can make things simpler.
6 people at High Table, 96 people in hall, plus feed
kitchen & serving staff; estimate 120. No
off-board in the hall; there are picnic tables outside
for off-boarders.
Comp Majesties and Highnesses, kitchen & serving
staff, nobody else. (If Highnesses have already
paid for feast, they can transfer their feast fix to
somebody else.)
Come up with a clear policy on who qualifies as "kitchen
& serving staff" for comp purposes.
Prereg & cancellation deadline two weeks in
advance. No late fee.
Next Commons
Feb. 15 at Bish's.
Sunday, February 17. A monthly
tournament designed to give fighters practice at tourney
fighting and to teach newer fighters about the formal
trappings of an SCA tournament. The winner of the
tournament is declared "Beau Geste" and gets to help run
the next month's tournament. We hope to draw fighters
from not only Ostgardr but the whole of the southern
region. The tourney will take place at noon at Grant's
Tomb, West 122nd Street and Riverside Drive in
Manhattan. There is ample parking. Vive le Beau Geste!
Sunday 2/17 in the basement common
room of 552 Riverside Drive, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. Please bring any scribal questions you may
have and/or your ongoing projects to discuss and work on
in a group of fellow scribes :-)
We will be
working on blanks for Provincial awards.
Also, see Computer program dates medieval
documents according to turns of phrase and catchwords of
the day.
National Gallery painting thought to
be Katharine Parr has been re-identified as Katharine of
Aragon, based on her clothing.
Baltimore woman is hairdresser by
day, "hairdo archaeologist" by night....
