[Wyewood] FW: Wyewood Census...

[robert Trinitie TCh. via Wyewood]

still digging in musty files. BWA HA HA HA

robert

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> From: carved-wood at msn.com
> To: wyewood at wyewood.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:05:46 +0000
> Subject: [wyewood] Wyewood Census...
> 
> 
> Thank you Mir for providing a Wyewood Census!  A large counting of those 
> gentles all who are part of our group!
> 
> Back in the dark mists of time, back in the late AS 20's when Eastern 
> Wyewood was in Port de l'eau and Western Wyewood was in Madrone proper A 
> lady named Sybilla Penrose of the Netherhase was seneschal of Port de l'eau, 
> and it was she, along with to find gentles Henry and Edith, the dance master 
> of said Canton, and his lady who started what is called the "South End Dance 
> Practice"
> 
> It was as we say, mostly attended by people from up north, and I who lived 
> in Ballard at the time was one of the "Up North" people.
> 
> in 1994 we held a social for intrested people from the Kent Faire, and an 
> assortment of classes as well as dance.  Then at the end of the year I 
> bought a house in Des Moines, at that time in Madrone, and decided to start 
> a group.
> 
> I met with a certain amount of resistance.  One peer told me the south end 
> was too blue collar to have an SCA group, another pointed out that several 
> times people tried to organize in the South end and failed, and a 3rd who 
> was a royal peer informed me in no uncertain terms that I was trying to 
> destroy the SCA through factionalism and going about organizing the group in 
> the wrongest possible way.  - aka.  I was not following the path that lead 
> to the failure of several other south end groups -.
> 
> I shrugged my shoulders and continued.  Soon Rauthuflr and Tamsin of the new 
> name joined my efforts, as well as a rotation of people, some who stayed and 
> many more who did not.
> 
> It was several years later when I went to an event saw the Wyewood flag, 
> entered the camp and recognised "no one" indeed they challenged me asking 
> who I was and what was I doing in the Wyewood camp?
> 
> so indeed our tree has solid roots, a mighty trunk, and with Mir's list it's 
> obvious that are branches are now filled with a bunch of fruit.   from 1to 
> 90 in 10 years.
> 
> Gordon.
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> Gordon Ellis
> SCA: Gordon Redthorn