Pennsic in pictures: our camp

[cellio]

Here are a few pictures of our encampment, Polyhymnia:



Viewed from the road:



The entry (the plywood bridge is due to a drainage ditch):


The kitchen structure (foreground), pantry, and (in the back) shower with stained-glass window:


Inside the kitchen (the chandelier is powered by a marine battery):


Inside the pantry:


Why yes, it does include the kitchen sink:


Our common area; the red and green benches are storage boxes:

(The above picture was taken before the final pavillion went up behind the table; the dome tent belongs to the camp next door.)

A view from the back of the camp out to the road (standing in a spot that would later be occupied by a tent):


A closer view of the carving on the house (quarter-inch plywood and a jig saw, in case you're wondering):


Pennsic doesn't allow pets, so we have to improvise:

Comments

[sethg]

What aspects of the camp are "period" and what are compromises? (The marine battery, obviously, would be one of the latter....)

[cellio]

Some of it is attempted re-creation; some is an attempt to not be obviously modern.

The house is based on mid-10th-century Cordova. It uses moden materials (that "tile" roof is made out of ABS pipe, for instance), but the goal is to look right for the period within the constraints of practicality.

The kitchen and pantry are based on Tudor half-timber buildings. The goal is to look right from the outside so as to conceal the essential mundanities within, such as coolers, packaged food, and propane stoves. (We have neither the land allotment nor inclination to do all our cooking over a fire.)

The shower is, well, a cute hack. :-) The cloth walls conceal the propane-fueled water tank, chlorination system, and plumbing. The (plexiglass) stained-glass window in the door is whimsy.

The pavillions and A-frame tent are all based on period sources, though not all the same period.

The large table and benches in the common area are "generic medieval-oid". The box benches are based on Viking chests. You can't see it in these pictures, but some of them are painted on the sides with gripping beasts (based on art from that period).

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I love that you have to mention that the non-period tent isn't yours! :P

I'm sad I missed Pennsic, but I had a quiet couple of weeks, and that was good.

[cellio]

We did have a nylon tent in camp this year, and would have had two had someone not had to stay home at the last minute. We don't insist on period-style structures, but we've been tending in that direction over the years we've been camping together.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

We don't insist on them in Strawberry Fields, but we do put them in the back corner, hidden by all the other period tents.

[cellio]

We do our best to make the period-style stuff most visible, but we're a small group (16 people this year) so we don't always have a choice. We've been consistently able to put the house, kitchen, and pantry along the road; everything else depends on that year's structures and land allocation (shape of plot).