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AÉNOR TO BE LAURELED
11 January 2003
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We are
pleased to announce that
Lady
Aénor d'Anjou was laureled at Kingdom
Twelfth Night in Charlotte on 11 January, 2003.
House Bayard assisted with the reception. We hope you'll join us in
honoring our friend on this great occasion! |
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NEW WEB HOST
23 November 2002
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House
Bayard's web site has relocated from Geocities to
VerseHost. With 100 MB of storage, and 4GB of
monthly transfer, we now have the ability to keep a lot
more photos and other resources on our site, and best of
all, the page will never be taken offline when we get a
lot of hits to the site in a short space of time.
And no banner ads (yay!). |
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HELL
FREEZES OVER
(a brief report from Celtic Cattle Raids)
20-22 September 2002 |
Due undoubtedly to some kind of wacky planetary
alignment, every member of House Bayard was present at
the same event - Celtic Cattle Raids in the Canton of
Nimenefeld in Apex, NC. At some later date I may get around to writing this up in more detail,
but for now....
Alaric and Martyn fought in the battles. Xav ran the thrown weapons
tourney, helped cook, and supervised cleanup after the
feast, and acted in the Commedia skit. Dunstan ran
the Bardic Circle, and Andela ran
her baked goods stand. Rohan was able to join us
for most of the day, and Valdemar was able to get back
to the event from a gig in Raleigh in time to enjoy
the amazing feast by Generys and Girard.
In court, Dunstan and
Derdriu were inducted into the Order of the Kittyhawk, and
Valdemar received a Baronial Award of Excellence. |
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WEB PAGE FINALLY UPDATED
28
September 2002
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After over six months, I've finally gotten around to
updating our web site and turning it into the resource
that I'd originally intended it to be - the Members Pages
in particular. Unless otherwise noted, the
chronicler is Ursula
von Bremen.
Every section has
been overhauled except the Journals page, so check
out the site and let me know what you think. Some
folks still owe me updates, by the way. (Poke,
poke.)...
By the end of Fall
2002, we'll be moving the site to a paid provider, meaning
more disk storage, no banners, and less downtime. |
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IN
REMEMBRANCE OF MASTER ALDWIN
13 September 2002
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On Friday, 13 September, seventeen people gathered at
Daryl's Restaurant in Raleigh to
raise a glass in honor of our friend Master
Aldwin Longwalker, who is sorely missed by us all. |
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HOUSE
BAYARD BADGE GOES TO LAUREL
August 2002
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We've been informed that
our
badge went to Laurel on the August letter, and we're
expecting it to be registered sometime in January 2003.
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ICELANDIC
HOUSE OF PENNSIC II
August 2002
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House Seawolf and House Bayard established a new Pennsic
legend when they launched the Icelandic House of Pennsic
(AKA the IHOP) last year at Pennsic XXX.
The IHOP returned
this year, and once again, between 12 and 2 AM for three
non-consecutive nights, while other camps were serving
booze, we were serving eggs, pancakes and hashbrowns.
Rohan
was the chief instigator of this fantastic idea. |
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ELENA
ROSE NEALSON
HAS ARRIVED
4 April 2002
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Barely a year after they tied the knot, Dunstan and
Tangwystl welcomed Eleyna Rose into the world. She
is doing her duty as a newborn to ensure that they are
virtually sleep free! And she's already picking up
some bad
habits! |
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ASHEVILLE
RENFAIRE 2002
4-5 May 2002
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I could write
a small book about our involvement in the 2002 Mountain
Renaissance Adventure Faire, I re-designed and
maintained their web page. Dunstan, Xav, Valdemar
and I came up with the storyline, and Dunstan and I wrote
the script.
Valdemar upgraded
the
castle wall from 12' wide x 12' high x 4' deep to
20'wide x 12' high x 8' deep (not counting the new
crenellations). He also designed and did much of the
building of the new ticket booths. We received lots
of assembly help from the renfaire folk.
Valdemar, Xav, Faelan
and I learned a bit of stage combat, choreographed our own
fights, and performed in the Chess Battle. Valdemar,
Martyn, and Alaric fought in the Champions Battle along
with Gaston, Sir Aelfred of Cres.
Xavier ran the
Groggy
Griffin Inn with Genrys, Girard, Britney, Andela, and
Faelan. Valdemar built and ran Castle Siege (a mini
crossbow and catapault game), and Ursula ran Days of Yore Fantasy Portraits with Lucy, Kateryn Rous, and
Nona Powers. Efenwealt, Aénor and Aiden were there
with Angevin Treasures, and Maeve and Thor-Thor were there with
Thor-Thor's Hammer.
Plus the faire
snagged us free hotel rooms for the entire crew.
Everyone assures us that they had a great time, and we're
already neck deep in the 2003 season. Kind of
explains what's been taking so long with our page updates,
doesn't it? |
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