[Mistyhighlandslist] advice for your castellan?

[Joseph Vandevander]

When would be a good time for that demo, do you think?  I'm leaning toward
right after Pennsic in September or later in the Autumn.  I'd still like to
do a WVU demo sometime if only for sentimental reasons (I met My Lady at
one).

Oh, and what about recruitment other than demos?

On 3/14/07, Samuel Cale IV <scale at ma.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Joseph Vandevander wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I humbly request that anyone having suggestions regarding shire
> > recruitment share them with me.  Feel free to either respond on this
> > list and get a discussion going or to just shoot me a personal email.
> > Any suggestions about areas of focus or ideas for demos (where to have
> > it, what time of year, suggestions for activities at demos) are most
> > welcome.  At the last meeting, it was suggested that we hold a King's
> > Crossing style demo at one of the semi-deserted malls in the Fairmont
> > region.
> >
> > As far as focus, my current inclination is to focus on the area
> > surrounding I-79 running through the heart of our shire.  My logic
> > being that starting small colonies too far away from the center of
> > things would probably be unproductive.  Far-flung cantons would
> > probably whither without external support.  Agree?  Disagree?  How
> > much or how little effort should be put into recruiting WVU students?
> > Your castellan wants to know!
> >
> > Stefan von Baden
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> One of the things that worked well for recruiting with Karate Schools
> when I used to teach were demo's at the mall.  I think that one similar
> to KC is a good idea.  One of the failings of many SCA demo's that I
> have been to in the past is that the scadians pretty much stick with the
> scadians....so if we took the time to designate some people who
> deliberately wander the crowd, pass out information and just be friendly
> that might help us too.  It hard for newcomers to a group with customs
> and often strange activities to indoctrinate themselves without a lot of
> help.
>
> I think we of course need to be open to students but really I think the
> target group should be permanent local people. Especially those who are
> gainfully employed and have their act together.
>
>
> just my 2 cents
>
> Gareth
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