From lionsgater at yahoo.com Mon Jan 11 14:59:44 2016 From: lionsgater at yahoo.com (John Mail) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:59:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Hartwood] Fealty: word of the day References: <712715620.2840503.1452553184263.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <712715620.2840503.1452553184263.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Word of the day: fealty \FEE-ul-tee\ Definition noun 1a :the fidelity of a vassal or feudal tenant to his lord b :the obligation of such fidelity 2 :intense fidelity Examples "The fealty of country music fans to their favorite stars is as strong as old-time religion." ? Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Republic, 18 July 1994 Did You Know? In The Use of Law, published posthumously in 1629, Francis Bacon wrote, "Fealty is to take an oath upon a book, that he will be a faithful Tenant to the King." That's a pretty accurate summary of the early meaning of fealty. Early forms of the term were used in Middle English around 1300, when they specifically designated the loyalty of a vassal to a lord. Eventually, the meaning of the word broadened. Fealty can be paid to a country, a principle, or a leader of any kind?though the synonyms fidelity and loyalty are more commonly used. Fealty comes from the Anglo-French word feelt?, or fealt?, which comes from the Latin fidelitas, meaning "fidelity." These words are ultimately derived from fides, the Latin word for "faith." From dbevan at topfloor.ca Sun Jan 31 21:48:49 2016 From: dbevan at topfloor.ca (D Bevan) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:48:49 -0800 Subject: [Hartwood] 2016 Council & Event Schedule Message-ID: <651A6035-E3C8-43F7-8563-E311D0F97C73@topfloor.ca> Greetings! We?ve set the dates for events & councils in 2016. Mark your calendars! Event copy and further reminders will be posted closer to the dates. Online councils were chosen twice because dates for quorum were unavailable. July and December will have no council, as they?re months that are far too busy for us all. Feb 20, Sat: Cumberland Heritage Faire - Cumberland Recreation Centre, Cumberland. - Contact Linda for details. Feb 27, Sat: Newcomers - Royston Community Club, Royston. - Contact Leslie for details. Feb Council will be held in online chat. Mar 26, Sat: Council & Garb Workshop - Lighthouse Community Hall, Qualicum Beach. - Contact Danielle for details on council, Wendy for details on the Garb Workshop. - Potluck Snacks! Easter egg hunt! Bring fabric for help with Garb! Bring swords if you want to hit each other! Apr 23, Sat: Council - Lighthouse Community Hall, Qualicum Beach. - Contact Danielle for details. - Potluck Snacks! Bring swords if you want to hit each other! Apr 30-Mar 1, Weekend: Hartwood University of Tir Righ Session - RSCC 136 Amphion Sea Cadets Hall, Nanaimo. - Contact Danielle for details, or Taleah to volunteer to instruct. - Classes! Craftsman Championship! Potluck revel! Dancing! Bardic! Sleep-over party! May Council will be held in online chat. Jun 24 - 26th, Weekend: Council and EVENT TO BE NAMED BECAUSE THE FIGHTERS DON?T LIKE ?Retreat?. - Location TBA. - Council will be held 7pm Friday Night. Contact Danielle for details. - Learn all about the fighting arts! Enjoy a nice mud-bath and facial! ? wait, thats why they didn?t like ?retreat?. - Non-fighting classes will be available. - Contact Dave & Wendy for details. Jul: No council. Aug 20, Sat: Council & Wooly things - Location TBA. - Contact Danielle for details on council, Leslie for details on Wooly things. - Potluck Snacks! Bring wool, or come to learn how to/help process a fleece! Bring swords if you want to hit each other! Sep 16-18, Weekend: Council and Hartwood Championship - Location TBA. - Council will be held 7pm Friday Night. Contact Danielle for details. - Compete for Armoured or Archery championships! Or participate in a for-fun Rapier tourney! Oct 29, Sat: Council - Lighthouse Community Hall, Qualicum Beach. - Contact Danielle for details. - Potluck snacks! Halloween Themed, come in costume! Bring swords if you want to hit each other! Nov 19, Sat: Council - Lighthouse Community Hall, Qualicum Beach. - Contact Danielle for details. - Potluck snacks! Bring swords if you want to hit each other (and are completely insane, it?s NOVEMBER)! Nov 26, Sat: Yule - Errington War Memorial Hall, Arrington - Contact Taleah for details. - Potluck dinner! Bardic Champion! Dec: No Council. Happy whatever-it-is-you-celebrate. Other dates that may be of interest (check out the Kingdom Calendar for details): Feb 2-7, Winters End, False Isle Feb 19-21, Investiture, Thornwood (formerly Shittemwoode) Mar 19, Daffodil, Seagirt Apr 1-3, Tir Righ Heraldic & Scribal Symposium, Seagirt Apr 16, Spring Ball, Seagirt May 7-8, Fiordland Rising, Fiordland May 14, Champions Tourney, Lions Gate May 27, Sealion War, Lions Gate Jun 10-12, Coronet, Coill Mhor Jun 18, Lionsdale Champs, Lionsdale Jul 1-3, Seagirt Summer Tourney, Seagirt*** Jul 8-10, Stranded Mermaid Tourney, False Isle Jul 18-25, AT War/Nakusp Medieval days, Nakusp Jul 29-01, Tournament of Armies, Lions Gate Aug 5-7, SYG, Seagirt Aug 12-14, SYG, Lionsgate Aug 26-28, Investiture, Danescombe Sep 9-11, Odins Playground, Lionsdale Sep 23-25, Tir Righ A&S & Bardic, ?? Oct 1, Baronial Banquet, Lions Gate Oct 8, Fall Ball, Seagirt Nov 4-6, Coronet, Lions Gate Nov 19, Baroness? Tournament, Lions Gate Dec 3, Yule, Seagirt *** Rumour has it SST may be held on our very own Denman Island! Woo! I hope to see everyone out and about this year. Lets make it a good one! Cunegonda Seneschal of Hartwood From dbevan at topfloor.ca Sun Jan 31 22:00:43 2016 From: dbevan at topfloor.ca (D Bevan) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:00:43 -0800 Subject: [Hartwood] 2016 Council & Event Schedule In-Reply-To: <651A6035-E3C8-43F7-8563-E311D0F97C73@topfloor.ca> References: <651A6035-E3C8-43F7-8563-E311D0F97C73@topfloor.ca> Message-ID: I need a personal editor. This should read April 30 - MAY 1. Also, this is currently different than what?s listed on the Kingdom Calendar; we?ve moved the date, and are waiting for that to process. :) > > Apr 30-Mar 1, Weekend: Hartwood University of Tir Righ Session > - RSCC 136 Amphion Sea Cadets Hall, Nanaimo. > - Contact Danielle for details, or Taleah to volunteer to instruct. > - Classes! Craftsman Championship! Potluck revel! Dancing! Bardic! Sleep-over party! > Cunegonda the Typo Queen Seneschal of Hartwood From dbevan at topfloor.ca Sun Jan 31 23:07:13 2016 From: dbevan at topfloor.ca (D Bevan) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:07:13 -0800 Subject: [Hartwood] Projects Message-ID: We have a lot of projects on the Shire's to-do board. At the AGM people stepped up to help make these things happen, and I am hugely grateful. For those who weren't at the AGM, but may be interested in participating, here's some of what's up: Website re-write: We're going to be redesigning the website using very easy to use design tools to make it both more aesthetically pleasing, and easy to use. Hopefully it will be newcomer friendly and a place members can go to get official news and notices of practices and the like. -- Chaired by Aniko. Newsletter: Aniko needs articles, artwork, or photos for the newsletter. Feel free to email her any time. Tokens: The shire hasn't given out tokens of appreciation in a very long time. It's time to resurrect the practice. We'll be using some ideas from our history, and some completely new ones. -- Chaired by I've-completely-forgotten. Kjartan? Demo Kit: We did a LOT of demos last year. The Demo kit is a tub of items to fill up a demo table, so we aren't completely reliant on the same people showing up every time -- we know we'll have stuff to show off. -- Chaired by Halima. Map: Harold is going to look at creating a local, updated map for us. Newcomers Tabards: Hawa is going to look at creating tabards for newcomers out of the fabric that's already been purchased. War Tabards: Fabric to be purchased and tabards to be sewn for tabards large enough to fit over armour for the war field, so Hartwood fighters can go into battle looking like... Hartwood fighters! -- Chaired by Aniko Herald's Tabard: Sigrun has offered to create a fancy Heraldic tabard for the Shire Herald to out-shine every other shire's Herald. Because we are awesome. Painted Walls: The shire covets the fancy stone-effect painted sheets that certain other branches have. We will create our own, and they will be beautiful, and our events will be more awesome because of them. -- Chaired by Aline It's time for a Chamberlain Audit. If anyone that currently stores any of Hartwood's goods could photograph and itemize them, and send that list to Ulf, that would be terrific. Event Sites: We need to know what sites are available, at what costs, and what facilities they have. A sheet of questions to ask, as well as a brief informational packet to offer private land-owners on the SCA will be created so that members can get information for halls/sites in their local area. -- Chaired by Cunegonda Databases: We need resources for Event Stewards. They need to know what sites are available for events, and they need to know where the darned tablecloths are. An Event Sites, and Stores database will be created to make it easier on them. -- Written by Harold The shed needs moving. It's my understanding that Ulf and Sextus did this over the weekend, because they work fast! Youth Combat: We're interested in having it available. Sextus is going to work with Azemar and look into what needs to be in place for that to happen. Steward Handbook: A written guideline to Hartwood's events. When do our championships happen? What are the historical number of attendees? How do you put in a bid? How do you report afterwards? Lets make it as simple as possible. -- Written by Cunegonda & Symonne Contact Cards and Newcomer Vouchers: We're ordering more business cards to hand out to friends and those interested in what we do. We're also creating a voucher for a free first -Hartwood- event. These will be passed out to the populace. -- Designed by Aniko Some finished projects we wanted to recognize -- the beautiful Hartwood Banner for use at events, created by Aniko, and the concrete steps taken to getting thrown weapons happening in Hartwood by John, who's arranged for the purchase of iron key and is getting instructors for us. Also, the Championship belts, crafted by Attius, which will make their debut at the TUTR event in April! Other ideas: A guestbook at demos/newcomer events, a shire motto, and some open discussion about baronial interest vs a healthy shire. Look for some of these to be broken out into other conversations over the next month. Thank you to all the volunteer coordinators, and those working with them. You make this shire function. You make us awesome. For those who weren't at the meeting, I'm SURE that many of these project leads would welcome more helpers. Don't think because you didn't make a single meeting that there's no place for your input or creativity! Reach out to the coordinators, or if you don't have their contact info, to me. And finally, I know that there are some people who aren?t even on email lists (through no fault of their own *cough*Shaw*cough*). If you know someone who?s not traditionally ?in the loop?, please, PLEASE, print off the event dates email, and maybe this one, and help them connect with us. Thank you. Cunegonda the Spammy Seneschal of Hartwood -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: