Possible Event Site in Alabama
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:49 am
[I copied this off the Atlantian mailing list. The gist of the story is interesting but far more important at this point is that it sounds like there's a ready-made event site with some neat stuff in it, if you guys get the attention of the locals in Selma. Here's hoping.]
regards
Jonathan Blackbow
I thought that this news story would be of interest to -- at least
some members of -- the SCA. It illustrates some of the tradeoffs we
need to make in pursuit of the Dream.
"The stitch counters had taken over," he said.
"If you didn't have what they considered to be
the sufficient authentic kit, they looked down
their noses at you."
The purist re-enactors - called "stitch counters"
because of their insistence that buttonholes be
hand-sewn and have a correct historical thread
count - have become more vocal in their quest
for strict authenticity.
Full text online at
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.selma09apr09,0,3901355.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines>.
An array of different takes on this story is available by Googling,
in "News", the words "Selma selma re-enactment".
-- YIS,
-- Britton
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regards
Jonathan Blackbow
I thought that this news story would be of interest to -- at least
some members of -- the SCA. It illustrates some of the tradeoffs we
need to make in pursuit of the Dream.
"The stitch counters had taken over," he said.
"If you didn't have what they considered to be
the sufficient authentic kit, they looked down
their noses at you."
The purist re-enactors - called "stitch counters"
because of their insistence that buttonholes be
hand-sewn and have a correct historical thread
count - have become more vocal in their quest
for strict authenticity.
Full text online at
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.selma09apr09,0,3901355.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines>.
An array of different takes on this story is available by Googling,
in "News", the words "Selma selma re-enactment".
-- YIS,
-- Britton
end