OK Well I'm back. Had downed email for while, a long while, with the WORST provider on the planet--Wildblue--. This provider, satelite service, is worst than AOL on dial-up in the 90's.
Now for some good news and bad--well not so bad, news. I have picked Sept 11 thru Sept 14th as the days for the knap-in and Primitive Skills get together here in the Mebane NC area. I had to pick a date and this is it. I can change it but it suits our people closest here the best.
Now for some background info. The land is owned by a man well respected in this comunity. He is currently in a health care facility, put there by his wife. Wait it gets better. She was murdered sometime around Nov 28 or the 29th. The fellow working with me on this is her step son. The estate lawyers, gotta love these guys, have a lien on the property now for debts etc. So it makes our usage of it up in the air. I am being told it will not be resolved by then, so go ahead and have "our thing". I am trying to nail down the liability rider cost of a policy for one week to hold us harmless as well as the land owner. I will also incur a cost for the porta-johns. I am planing on charging a very small fee to the public to park, lets say one dollar per car, this to be used to offset the costs. I will gather ice, at cost, each day for us and there will be sufficient firewood for a week. I am cutting it now and will cut some "on site". I will publish a list of the "stuff" we could do and the shifts I hope to utilize during the day and evening. If you are off that week you can camp there (and help) all week and then some. I will have maps and a proposed flier that I will distribute over a 50 mile radius. As some of you have seen there is parking for hundreds if not a thousand or more cars. Will we get them? probably not but we are prepared. I will take under advisement all your suggestions and criticisms. I would like you to remember that this is starting out, this year, as being run by a "Benevolent Dictator". In other words the buck has to stop here and my decisions will be based on a lot of input from you and all the volunteers.
The next posting will list the events and the demonstrations. I have some volunteers to head some of these up already and will put their names alongside the proper category.
Wel,l here we go.
Dick Bernier
6319 NC Hwy 49
Mebane NC 27302
1 336 562 3700 H est (Call first and leave a message)
1 336 263 8880 Cel
