Pennsic house

[cellio]

Somebody at Sunday dinner (can't remember who now) asked about the little house I use for Pennsic. Here is a link. The pictures are out of date; we added some decoration this year. I have the new pictures scanned now (yeah, actual film -- no digital camera yet), but I haven't updated the site yet.

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amazing!

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

That little house is amazing!! I was briefly involved w/ SCA my freshman year in college. I had only gone to a couple of events (won a begging contest at one of 'em too!) in the Tidewater area (I forgot the SCA name for it - something ending in '-ia'). I forget why I didn't continue with the group - maybe 'cause my plate got too filled w/ music stuff.... I never did get to check out a Pennsic, but always thought it would be fun to go. Anyway, I'd love to see how the little house gets disassembled and reassembled. What a great project! How many people stay in the little house? Does it have a name? What do you do w/ it when it's not Pennsic?

Re: amazing!

[cellio]

It doesn't get disassembled. It's built directly onto a trailer frame. At the end of Pennsic we close the shutters, pack the contents, and lock the door, and the nice folks at Cooper's Lake come by later with a tractor and tow it to their storage area, where it sits until the next Pennsic. (We can get access during the year to do maintenance. This year we'll be adding more decoration and giving the exterior another coat of paint.) It's good to live an hour away from the Pennsic site. :-)

My husband and I stay in the little house, and our camp (of about 15 people) stores lots of stuff in the house between Pennsics, like a lot of our kitchen gear that we only use at Pennsic. Hey, we're paying for the storage for the trailer anyway; they don't care if it's empty or full. :-)

Where is Tidewater? (What state?)

BTW, there are music opportunities in the SCA, you know. :-) (Yeah, I know, just what you wanted -- another time sink. :-) )

Re: amazing!

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

Where is Tidewater? (What state?)
Sorry - Tidewater is is Virginia. It's not a city as much as an area that includes Va. Beach, Norfolk and might extend as far North as Williamsburg, but I'm not sure about that. I know about the SCA music opportunities - in fact, I composed a song singing the praises of the cook who judged the begging contest that I won ;-) I think I even remember most of it - the tune wasn't bad - probably stolen from an existing folk song - the rhymes and meter were forced, but fun. I sing w/ a group called Zemer Chai and one of the composers who's works we sing is Rossi. That would definitely fit in w/ the SCA world. It's really gorgeous stuff. Sometimes, I wish there were more hours in the day. :-)

Re: amazing!

[cellio]

Virginia is part of the kingdom of Atlantia, so that's probably the "-ia" name you were thinking of. (Unless you meant the name of the local group, in which case I have no idea.)

Rossi's music is gorgeous! I've been hoping our choir would sing some of it (to offset all the Xtian stuff). Where did you find sheet music?

[mrpeck.livejournal.com]

That's quite a house.

Zemer Chai

[cellio]

Wow, that sounds like a great group! I hope I get to hear you some day. (So after 25 years, have you thought about recording?)

Re: amazing!

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

Atlantia! That's right. That's what I thought it might be, but I wasn't sure if I was just thinking of Atlantis or something. As for Rossi, you can get the music from Transcontinental Music. Do a catalog search on Rossi. :-)

Re: Zemer Chai

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

heh that's kind of a long story but the nutshell is this. Eleanor, our founder and leader is only NOW after 25 years willing to consider a Zemer Chai recording. It's a lot of work and energy and she's a perfectionist (I say that with love) who believes that groups can "get away with" a lot in a live performance that will never work as a recording since microphones are very unforgiving. She also thinks you can never get as good a performance in a studio as you get live in front of an audience. I hope she takes the plunge. I would SO LOVE to have a professional recording of us and there a lot of patrons out there who want a recording too. I'll be sure to let you know if we make any progress on that front. :-)

Re: Zemer Chai

[cellio]

There's always the live-recording approach to get away from the studio problem. If you record every show you do (or at least all the ones in good accoustic venues), eventually you'll have enough raw material to pick and choose the best rendition of each of the songs you want to include. (Hint: AFAIK this is how most groups do it; the "live from such-and-such location" style of live recording is the minority approach for really really polished groups.)

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

I love your house. As someone who has been in it, the pictures don't do it nearly justice. There is actual closet space (useful when you need a week to two weeks worth of clothes), and it is so wonderfully *cozy*.

As for the Rossi. I'm going to go to the link and refer it to the choir director, I know that he has been trying to find new music and more non-Christian-centric music. That will be a great help.

Fianna

Rossi

[cellio]

I'm going to order Shir HaShirim I and II. I have recordings and they're wonderful; I've been wanting the sheet music for a while. (If Ray wants to borrow some CDs to see what all the fuss is about, I can supply.)

Re: Rossi

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

I know that Ray would love it. Can't wait to hear this, myself!

[eub.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That's great. I love the stone trimwork and the tile roof.

(I wonder, is it required to meet the building codes for a house? For any state it's transported to?)

[cellio]

Building codes apply to structures that are attached to the ground. They don't apply to stuff like this -- just as well, as the problem of inspecting ren fairs, SCA events, boy scout gatherings, and whatnot would be cumbersome otherwise. (The Coopers, who own the land that Pennsic is held on, enforce *private* requirements on structures, but that's because of liability issues. I made sure that they approved the plans before anything got built.)

State governements (through, e.g. PennDOT) can enforce regulations about stuff you're transporting on the roads, but the regulations are mostly about size, weight, and keeping stuff attached to the vehicle. Since the plan here is for this to live at Cooper's Lake, I didn't worry all that much about those. (In fact, right now it exceeds the height limit for PA.)