Message-Id: <9401181836.AA11422@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 13:38:08
From: kgandek@MIT.EDU (Kathryn Gandek-Tighe)
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
Subject: Principality

Much to my surprise, I'll stop to put in my two cents (since opinions 
seem to be popping out).  I think a Northern principality is a fine 
thing, but I don't think we should be a part of it.  It's not really 
fair to the northernmost groups to have the bulk of the population 
located so far south of them.  

How many of us currently toddle off to Montreal or Nova Scotia with any 
regularity if at all?  Even if you cut off the area below Massachusetts, 
it's still a geographic hike from one end to the other.  What are the 
odds of Bostonians journeying up to Newfoundland instead of going to an 
event in New Jersey?  

For me personally (and it is a personal opinion for each of us), the 
best part of the SCA is the ability to participate in activities - not 
awards or paperwork.  I can't conscience making it harder for people in 
the northernmost reaches to play in order to up our chances for getting 
awards, being on the throne or having offices with less paperwork.  
That's not the point for me...personally as I said.  We're located close 
enough to the center of the kingdom.  Our options are already so much 
greater that theirs.  Let's let the outskirts have more of a chance to 
play the pomp and circumstance parts themselves.

Catrin o'r Rhyd For