The Sherwood CrierThe Sherwood CrierThe Sherwood Crier October 2010 Volume 1, Issue 4

S herwood Forest Faire is a vibrant, alive and dynamic organism. It is

changing, evolving, and in a constant state of becoming. George and I are transfixed at its development…and feel very humbled to be even a small part of what is happening in these enchanted woods. I received an email from Lady Songbird shortly after one of the last gatherings. Her thoughts are a testimony to the spirit of some-thing quite unique within our present social and community experiment:

Never in my life have I believed in MAJIC. I have seen many “rhymes and reasons” for people to donate time to charities, causes and beliefs. When it comes to business… most of us look for $$$. Not so, with these folks for SWFF! I would have NEV-ER thought to parade for Scarby, TRF, or Middlefaire, or any other business. Why Sherwood? Perhaps, partly, because it’s close to home… but mostly, because there is some-

thing here that I have not felt at any other faire. Scarby is a nice, well established place. TRF is just too big for me. Perhaps it’s the “beginnings”. Or, perhaps, just maybe, there’s something SPECIAL in the air here, and we are all drawn together by it. Whatever it is… we are our own special family here… LONG LIVE SHERWOOD FOREST! LONG LIVE ERIC & GEORGE ! (and all who make it special!) HUZZAH!!! –Lady Songbird aka Harriet

We asked folk to come out and volun-teer for four straight weekends re-cently. We didn’t expect many to show except for the one planned Gathering. Even up until the time we had posted for work to begin each Saturday morning, we talked among ourselves and said how it was likely few would make it. Yet, each Satur-day, you astounded us with your numbers, with your love, with your dedicated work ethic, with your com-

mitment to making Sherwood a better faire.

We finished the Mud Show Stage backdrop. We collected yaupon. We picked up sticks. We sowed (literally) a ton of rye grass seed. We ate pizza, drank soft drinks and beer; but more importantly, we talked and laughed and learned more about each other. I have referred to Sherwood as an ex-periment many times…and I meant it. Our society is in flux. I think about it all the time. We are so alien-ated from each other. Our social fab-ric is frayed. The extended family is all but destroyed. We don’t know our neighbors anymore. And we have a desperate need to belong.

So here we are, each with that prover-bial paint brush… and the canvas is Sherwood. We are all painting our desires, our wishes, our dreams upon this backdrop. Some are creating art.

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O ne of the first entertainment groups to throw their hat into

the ring, hoping to perform at Sher-wood Forest Faire, was The Bedlam Bards. This duo of 2 ½ members; Cedric, Hawke, and sometimes Lily, has become one of the Renaissance Festival circuit’s best loved acts. Sometime last month I spoke with Cedric, who formed the band along with Hawke over twelve years ago. With his wide variety of interests, insights, and careers, Cedric can be described most accurately as a Re-naissance Man. Not just a man who

is connected to Renaissance Festivals, but a multi-talented jack-of-all-trades who, like Da Vinci, is not content with a single calling in life. This describes many of us in the renaissance com-munity; in fact, now that we, as a so-ciety, are ready to recognize Renais-sance Women, Renaissance Kids, and whole Renaissance Families, I think the modern concept of the “Renaissance Man” should be re-named “Rennie”. We hold the torch for so many arts that would otherwise be dead that I think we Rennies have succeeded in keeping the spirit of the

Renaissance alive – not only from a showbiz perspective, or a historical perspective, but also in the way we live our lives.

As a premier bard in the S.C.A, Cedric first started attending Renaissance Festivals in 1986, roughly the same time and in the same social circle, as our own fearless pioneer Rengypsy. He started sitting in with bands at ren-faires, and went solo after being of-fered his own stage slots. It was not until about 1996 that Cedric met

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T h e I n s i d e r N e w s l e t t e r o f S h e r w o o d F o r e s t F a i r e

M a g i c i n t h e a i r

B y r e n g y p s y

C e d r i c o f t h e B e d l a m B a r d s : A R e n a i s s a n c e M a n

B y A u t o u l o u c o u s

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M a r k e t i n g u p d a t e

B y G e o r g e A p p l i n g

Sherwood’s 2011 Marketing Campaign has been in full swing with the efforts of our awesome guerrilla marketing troops. Our team leaders and volun-teers have won several prizes and have generally rocked the house. The picture to the right is yet another in a string of First Place parade finishes. Yes, that’ s a gigantic Blue Ribbon on the Sherwood banner!

If you’d like some marketing materials, or would like to help promote SWFF, please email marketing@sherwoodforestfaire.com.

Parade Team Leaders

Austin Robin Allen &

Jimmy “Monk” Peace

Bastrop County Lynn Fisk & Queen Bonnie

Bryan-College Station

Tammy Stubblefield

Dallas-Fort Worth Open

Fayette & Lee Counties

Harriett “Lady Songbird” Crockett

Houston George Appling

San Antonio

Indigo

San Marcos Open

Victoria

Open

Waco Open

Williamson County

Faerie Moss & Jeffrey Lord

To augment their efforts, we’ve launched a major billboard campaign targeting Texas Renaissance Festival patrons. In our 2010 Marketing Return on Investment Analysis, the two top-ranked sources of patrons were handing out postcards/brochures and the TRF billboards. So, we’re doubling down on both. This year, we’re hitting traffic from three directions.

One billboard is at the intersection of 1448 & 1774 (the final turn to TRF) facing West to catch incoming traffic from Austin (and everywhere West of TRF). It is a respectable 10’X24’:

The other two billboards are the design shown below, but in different sizes. One of them is on 1488, a couple miles East of 1774, facing West, to catch all those folks headed back to I-45 after Faire. This is the #1 TRF traffic route and this board is an impressive 10’X40’. The other board is on 1774/249, a couple miles South of 1488, facing North, targeting the Houstonians headed down the Tom-ball Parkway after Faire. This board is a whopping 14’X48’. Yes, that’s right, it is 48 feet across!

Sherwood is targeting 70,000 patrons in the 2011 season. You think we can do it? With amazing volunteers like you—hell yeah!

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O p e r a t i o n s u p d a t e

Improvements that are in progress or that have occurred since the last Crier:

Permanent showers—one bank for participants be-hind Admin (already completed) and the other for patrons in the campgrounds (just built, water lines almost ready to be hooked up)

New circle of eight vendor-built booths where Upper Gypsy Encampment used to be (in progress)

The Mud Pit Stage is about 85% done—needs lime-washing and some backstage improvements

The Jail is 90% done—needs limewashing and door

The slabs for the permanent toilets have been poured and are currently curing

20 additional acres of parking lot have been graveled. Special rows have been designated for RVs, cars with handicapped plates, and compact cars The Patron Campground has been enlarged by 25% (affects both Reserved and Open camping) Drainage has been improved by Fagan’s Froth and the horse paddock with the digging of culverts

Additional stables have been added in the paddock 2,000 lbs of rye grass seed has been scattered throughout the village

Our Round 3 Mud Stage volunteers really hit it out of the park! The stage is almost complete.

Photo: Vance Strickland

A B r i e f h i s t o r y o f t h e b a n t a m c h i c k e n

B y L a d y S o n g b i r d

The small bantam chicken has its roots in the Renaissance era. In those times, taxes were often paid in the form of produce from the peasant farm-ers. Only the largest, best, unblemished produce was taken for the king's table. This included eggs. If the eggs were small, as they are with younger birds, they were left behind. If all the birds were laying large eggs, then ALL eggs were taken, leaving none for the peasant family to eat. As a re-sult, the peasant farmers began selectively breeding smaller hens as a means of avoiding this tax.

Today, bantam chickens are bred primarily for show. Farms like to keep a few on hand because they are excellent setters.... in fact, they frequently become broody after laying just a few eggs themselves. Their smaller size keeps them from breaking eggs under them. Most larger breeds, bred for production have had the broodiness bred out of them. Bantams are not of these, so a farm can replenish their stock of good layers, and have a trust-worthy "nanny" setting while the others are laying.

Pictured (above): A white leghorn rooster (laying breed) with a group of bantams.

(Below): A group of 4 bantam hens hatching out a brood of chicks from full size layers.

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M e d i e v a l C u l t u r e C o r n e r

B y D e n i s e V i l l a r r e a l

H alloween. If you are anything like me, you have memories of

dressing up in a costume and going door-to-door trick-or-treating with a pillowcase or plastic pumpkin bucket in groups of your friends or siblings for a few hours and then coming home and checking out your loot. Halloween in the United States has largely be-come a very commercial holiday with much tradition that is passed on by rote motions and little depth. Many children can explain why we celebrate Easter and Christmas and even Memo-rial Day, but few can tell why we cele-brate Halloween.

The history of Halloween is shady, no pun intended, as it was not recorded until long after its inception. Much like any oral tradition, the facts have been lost amid legend and time. One theory connects Halloween directly with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, Catholic feast days which, when com-bined with Halloween, make up the three-day celebration known as Hal-lowmas. Another theory links the origin of Halloween to the British Isles and the Celtic celebration of Samhain, as many of the traditions we employ today can be traced back to traditions of the ancient Celts at Samhain.

ALL SAINTS’ DAY

All Saints’ Day is a holy day of obliga-tion in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church and had a confusing introduc-tion. Non-Catholics held onto their traditions in the face of Catholic mis-sionaries for years, until Pope Gregory I (also known as Pope Gregory the Great) devised a directive that ulti-mately changed the face of Catholicism globally without threatening the ten-ants of the faith. In 601 AD, Pope Gregory I announced that missionaries were to, where possible, incorporate beliefs, festivals, and sacred sites of pagans into the Catholic faith and cele-brations of the region. In 609 AD, the next pope, Pope Boniface IV, designat-ed May 13 as All Saints’ Day: a day to commemorate all saints known and unknown. At that time, All Saints’ Day coincided with the final celebration in the Ancient Roman three-day Feast of

the Lemures in which Romans exor-cised malevolent spirits from their homes with offerings of beans and salt-ed flour cakes. A later pope, Gregory III, moved All Saints’ Day to November 1, where it fell in with Samhain in the Celtic world. By the reign of Pope Gregory IV, All Saints’ Day was cele-brated all over the calendar. The Irish were celebrating on April 20, the Franks had been celebrating on No-vember 1 since the time of Charle-magne, and there were some Catholics who had never let go of the May date. Gregory IV decided to unequivocally confirm the official date of All Saints’ Day as November 1.

SAMHAIN

Samhain (pronounced “sow-en” and directly translated meaning “end of summer”) was a three-day festival that marked the final harvest and was also the ancient Celtic New Year when the weather began to get cold. Celts be-lieved that major transitions, like that from summer to winter, held magical properties. This particular transition was believed to create an opening to the dead. They believed that the peo-ple who died throughout the year made their journey to the ‘beyond’ at Samhain, which led to the conclusion that the worlds of the dead and living were closer during Samhain than any other time of the year. This portal was feared to work both ways allowing the dead in the otherworld to return and walk among the living. People felt the need to honor their ancestors because they were among them once more. Animals, fruit, and vegetables were gathered for sacrifices. Bonfires were lit to honor the dead, to guide them on their journey, and to keep them away from the living. Dead ancestors were not the only beings said to have crossed over at Samhain. Fairies, de-mons, and ghosts were feared to be present as well.

ALL SOULS’ DAY

All Souls’ Day is observed on Novem-ber 2 and celebrated with Catholic masses and festivities to honor the dead. To truly understand All Souls’ Day, a short explanation of the Catho-

lic belief in purgatory is necessary. There are three parts to the member-ship of the Church: those on earth, those in heaven, and those on their way to heaven being purified in purga-tory. Those on earth and in heaven can pray for those in purgatory, but those in purgatory cannot pray for themselves. Thus the obligation and desire to diminish the suffering of de-parted friends and family in purgatory is manifested in prayers and good works offered up for their souls. All Souls’ Day is focused on that particular idea. In medieval Europe, ‘Souling’, a tradition discussed in more detail lat-er, developed from the need for pray-ers and from the community spirit of towns in that period. The most excit-ing current variant of All Souls’ Day is Dia de los Muertos in Mexico. On “the Day of the Dead,” festivities take place to celebrate the lives of departed fami-ly and friends and to pray for their souls.

TRADITIONS

Jack-o’-Lanterns

Two stories place the origin of the Jack-o’-lantern firmly in Celtic history. The first indicates that as part of the Sam-hain celebration, Celts would extin-guish their ever-burning hearthfires and the Druids would light a bonfire and perform a ritual which culminated in the Druids bringing embers from the bonfire to the village to dole out among the villagers. The villagers

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Others, notes of beautifully orchestrat-ed music... still others, scenes from plays being written within their psyches.

Our children are running around the

grounds playing as children should with other kids. Few to no computer games. No TVs or radios. No Ninten-dos. Just conversations, imaginations, sticks seconding as swords or wands.

And what diversity!!! We are plumbers, carpenters, truck drivers, executives, school teachers, preachers, Christians, Wiccans, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Jains, Blacks, Whites, Native Ameri-cans, Hispanics, Gays, Straights, Transgenders, Artists, Athletes, crazies, sanes, and the list goes on and on.

I remember walking the streets of Am-sterdam years ago… having been raised in central Texas… and having this amazing realization of how diversity can co-exist and thrive. We don’t need to put people in boxes…but rather, for the greatest creativity to occur, we need everyone free to be themselves and bring their best to our tribe.

Not a day goes by that I am not appre-ciative of the fates or providence or happenstance that has caused me to be among you within this strange and reinforcing family of Sherwood. I am the luckiest soul who’s ever been given the chance to breathe and experience this gift called life. I am proud to walk among you as an equal and as a friend and a brother.

We will soon be gathering again during our faire to celebrate what Sherwood has become. And every year hence, we will open our gates wide to the patrons and be inviting every one of them to enjoy the magic… and if they so choose, to join the family/the tribe… and be a part of something quite spectacular for years to come.

See many of you at TRF!!!

Hugs,

Rengypsy

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M a g i c i n t h e a i r ( c o n t ’ d )

New booths offered contracts: (final agreement pending)

- House of Achill (leather journals)

- Jodi Bove Hot Glass* (glassblower) - Land of Merriment (children’s clothing) - Majestic Hair Flower (hair accessories)

- McGlaun Sculptor (bronze sculptor) - Mrs. McArthur’s Pepper Products (sauces, jellies, etc.)

- The Royal Pennant (make your own pennants) - Visker & Scrivener’s Magical Wares

(runes, scrolls, quills, & wands) - Weaving Demonstration*

- Tasting Wine with Madame Ghislaine*

New booths pending contract: 10 Previously approved booths (w/signed contract): 6

Not returning from 2010: 6 Net Gain: 10

*3 of the new booths are demos or shows! Exciting!

New booth construction The following vendors are constructing or intend to construct a permanent booth for 2011: 112 Abzu Designs 217 At The Top 218 The Tidepool 220 Fair Bagz & Things 308 Gerk’s Concessions 310 Corsets by Casta Diva 502 Ye Olde Piquant Apothecary 503 Cearweddwen’s Creations 505 Lady Mac’s Horns, Canes and Staffs 507 Two Spools R703 Life Tree Leather TBD Mythologicae TBD The Horn Shoppe TBD Son of Sandlar TBD Medieval Moccasins If you are not on this list but think you should be,

please email vendors@sherwoodforestfaire.com.

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would bring home an ember from this communal bonfire in hollowed-out turnips that, with the ember, glowed like a lantern.

The second story, Irish in origin, gives us the name “Jack”. Stingy Jack is a very popular character in Irish folktales. He was a famous cheapskate who apparently tricked the very Devil multiple times in order to retain his soul. One time Jack convinced Satan to climb a tree for some apples and trapped him there by carving crosses all around the trunk. Satan promised to leave Jack alone forever if he would only let him out of the tree. When Jack died, his sinful and unrepentant life kept him out of heaven, but, true to his word, the devil would not take him. Jack was doomed to walk the earth in limbo. The devil threw Jack an ember and as he would have done, Jack put the ember in a hollowed out turnip to light his way through the darkness.

Traditional jack-o’-lanterns, the turnip variety, were seen as common Hallow-een decorations across the traditional-ly Celtic regions of the British Isles a few hundred years ago. The folk tradi-tion held that they warded off Stingy Jack and represented the souls of the dead. Irish families that emigrated to

the United States brought the tradition but altered it slightly as pumpkins were more readily (and cheaply) avail-able than turnips. Carving faces and figures into the pumpkin was devel-oped here in the United States much later.

Trick-or-Treat

The Celtic faeries believed to be loose on Samhain were mischievous. They were believed to go door-to-door dis-guised as beggars and rewarded kind people who shared their food, but ter-rorized those that did not. In medieval times, an All Souls’ day practice called “souling” involved children going door to door begging for soul cakes (simple bread desserts), like modern trick-or-treaters. Each soul cake collected was a prayer the child had to say for dead relatives of the cake giver in an effort to help alleviate the dead relatives’ suffering in purgatory. There was even a song the children sang along the way.

Souling Song A soul, a soul, a soul cake

Please, good missus, a soul cake An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry Any good thing to make us all merry

One for Peter, two for Paul Three for Him who made us all

God Bless the master of this house, the

mistress also And all the little children who around

your table grow Likewise your men and maidens, your

cattle and your store And all that dwells within your gates

We wish you ten times more

The lanes are very dirty and my shoes are very thin

I've got a little pocket I can put a penny in

If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do

If you haven't got a ha' penny, then God bless you

Sung for All Souls (November 1). A soul cake was left for the spirits that left their graves on Samhain (Halloween)

Now you can bring a little bit of medie-val history and depth to your Hallow-een celebration. Hope you enjoy some soul cakes, carve some pumpkins or turnips, and sing along until next month,

~Blue Skies~

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M e d i e v a l c u l t u r e c o r n e r ( c o n t ’ d )

We haven’t been asked to share, nor have we heard whisperings of,

any Community News this month! Where is Lady Kravitz when we need her?

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Hawke, and the Bedlam Bards were born. Lily, the Bards’ ½ member joined them shortly thereafter.

Cedric says that, aside from Lily’s truly enchanting voice, the Bedlam Bards are not about melodious or “pretty” sound-ing music. Instead the Bards play mu-sic suited to “whiskey-drinking”, hard-working cultures who like to clap and stomp their feet, and escape from life’s hardships in a loud, sweaty, drunken togetherness (even if it’s just the music making you drunk). I asked Cedric if he considered hard-driven celtic music to be the original Rock-n-Roll. The musi-cal historian in him was quick to point out several other influences that lead to Rock, including African rhythms, but in essence – yes, they were enjoying music in the Rock-n-Roll spirit. Cedric dropped but one name as an influence of the Bedlam Bards; he considers “Baltimore Consort” to be the “perfect ren-faire band.” They are still together after 31 years, but he assures me I won’t be able to afford them anytime soon... sounds like a challenge (keep passing out those fliers, Sherwoodians).

Cedric and Hawke circa Robin Hood’s era (Lily was not born yet)

Cedric was formally trained in music at an early age, his mother being a musical scholar and teacher. This is no surprise if you have seen his show, because he is likely to play half a dozen instruments in the course of one set. Still, Cedric refers to The Bedlam Bards as “the band that never practices.” This must be the hallmark of real genius. I can imagine Cedric and Hawke tuning up their arsenal of instruments for 15

minutes, talking about the songs they are about to practice for 5 minutes, and then deciding that since they know them well enough, they might as well get to the bar since it’s well after 5:00. Like my High School Drama teacher was so fond of saying “We’ll just do it on the day.”

Of course, Cedric’s genius does stretch beyond the realm of music. To be a Renaissance Man, one needs to strive for universality. What better avenue for a polymath than to deal with the secrets of the human psyche and to help people learn to use them to their advantage? Cedric’s other chosen profession, be-sides Renaissance Rock Star, is Hypno-tist. His bread and butter as a hypnotist is in the practice of what he calls self-hypnosis. When Cedric works with you on self-hypnosis, he is not a performer; he is a Fear Buster! His methods have helped people overcome fears from stage fright to acrophobia to arachno-phobia, or anything that may cause you to clam up.

Cedric had a subject who had a fear of driving over bridges. This person would drive far out of their way to avoid them. After a short session, learning to hypnotize himself to feel differently about bridges, the person was able to drive all over town. Another case he told me about was handled on the bat-

tlefield of Renaissance Festival enter-tainment. Once at the Oklahoma Re-naissance Festival, a certain young vio-linist on the other side of the faire was so gripped with the fear of spiders that she could not bear to go on stage, though she was scheduled to play in 10 minutes. Cedric made some witty com-ment to the crowd as to why Hawke would have to harmonize the next song by himself, and he caught the next rick-shaw to the young lady’s show. After a few moments under her own spell, fol-lowing Cedric’s method, the bonny young fiddler not only made her show time, but she also played right next to the big banana spider that was causing her such distress – fear busted!

Being around a community of perform-ers, much of Cedric’s practice with Har-mony Hypnosis (www.harmonyhypnosis.net) is con-cerned with stage fright issues. I asked Cedric if he had stage fright before he learned of Hypnosis, and he said that, besides some shyness as a child, he has always felt comfortable on stage, and wishes to share his confidence with other performers. At Renaissance Faires, we are all performers, whether we are sales people, or on site crew; even a large percentage of the audience performs. And the performers have to be sales people to hawk their shows and sell CDs, and we all have to be light carpenters, decorators, and hack-electricians. And beyond all that, we choose to do things like make chain maile, brew mead, memorize runes, and on and on – keeping old ideas fresh, and finding ways to make new ideas look familiar. The Bedlam Bards are a familiar voice, singing the cadence of our unique Renaissance Society. And Cedric, whether he is harmonizing or hypnotizing, reminds you to be merry, and to challenge yourself to challenge those conventions that you don’t want to pass down to your successors. This is the same message you’ll get from Robin Hood and Maid Marian and so many other Renaissance Men, Women, and Beasts. Here’s to the Bedlam Bards and to all of Sherwood Forest Faire’s Re-naissance-Minded Folk! Seize the Day.

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31 Oct Vendor Application Deadline

1-4 & 6-7 Nov Jousting School—learn horsemanship, lance and shield control, and swordplay!

4 Dec Volunteer Work Day, Job Fair & Gathering

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19 Feb Opening Day

18 Mar Spring Break Friday (faire day)

3 Apr Closing Day

9 Apr Jousting Tournament (not a faire day)

U p c o m i n g e v e n t s

C o n t a c t I n f o r m a t i o n

Mailing address for general issues

PO Box 5470 Bryan TX 77805

Mailing address for vendors & marketing

PO Box 10816 Houston TX 77206

Mailing address for operations, entertainment,

and also physical address for your deliveries (please in-

clude your booth or act name)

3106 US Hwy 290 E Paige TX 78659

Accounting Bobby Hubley finance@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Campgrounds Mike Pullen camping@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Crafts, Food Brian O’Leary vendors@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Entertainment Zane “Autouloucous” Baker entertainment@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Jobs (seasonal) Matt “Pirous” Roberts jobs@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Marketing George Appling marketing@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Once Upon A Time... Tate “Revell” Green weefolk@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Operations Matt “Pirous” Roberts operations@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Volunteers David “Chameleon” Shaheen volunteers@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Website Brian O’Leary webmaster@sherwoodforestfaire.com

All other topics Eric “Rengypsy” Todd admin@sherwoodforestfaire.com

The Sherwood Crier Brian O’Leary sherwoodcrier@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Beverages Colette Castillo beverages@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Weddings Teri Van Horn weddings@sherwoodforestfaire.com

Mailing Addresses Email Addresses

Volunteer Work Days & Gatherings

Have you been to one of our Volunteer Work Day & Gathering events? Typically dozens of people come out to help weed, garden, remove dead trees, plant grass, etc. Clans are allowed to work on their own campsites on these days and many vendors work on their own booths. We all get together in the evening for a pot-luck dinner, with entertain-ment provided by our own entertainers or new acts who wish to audi-tion, and beverages are provided by the Faire.

We typically host a Volunteer Work Day & Gathering every six weeks or so. Join us when you’re able!

Next Gathering: 4 Dec 2010

Friday @ 4pm—Campgrounds open

Saturday 9am- 1pm—Volunteer Work Day 1pm –5pm—We will be interviewing candidates for seasonal jobs. 5pm onward— The Sherwood Games, Gathering w/Pot Luck

Sunday @ 1pm— Campgrounds close

The Sherwood Crier would have been just a bit worse this month without the efforts of:

Karen Campbell Vance Strickland Denise Villarreal