Love is in the air!
August 15-17
Grafton Community Center, 202 6th Street, Grafton, IA
- https://www.graftoniowa.com/community-center/
- WARNING: some GPS are routing people from the east through St. Ansgar which is a little out of the way.
Fees:
- Adult Site Fee: $20
- Adult Member Discount: $10
- Children 6-17: $5 (younger children free)
- Merchants: no extra fee (we have tables for indoors)
- Tent Camping: free (Friday night toSunday morning)
- Electrical Camping: $15/night (six sites, contact the event steward to reserve)
- Inns: free-will donation
- Feast: $10
- Cash or checks, no credit cards
This is a DRY site (liquor license issues).
- Leashed pets welcome, but OUTSIDE only.
- Unfortunately, there are no showers on-site
- Above-ground fires permitted
Activities: Food! Arts & Sciences, Merchants, Archery, Thrown Weapons, Fighting (space for Bardic if desired)
Event Steward:
- Lord Gobbán Mac Roibeáird
Tentative Schedule (full schedule below):
- Friday afternoon – site opens for set-up and camping
- 5-8 pm – Troll/Gate
- Saturday 8:30 am – Breakfast Inn
- 9 am – Troll/Gate opens
- 10 am – most activities start
- 11:30 am – Lunch Inn opens
- 3:30 pm – A&S Competitions judged
- 4:30 pm – final bids for Silent Auction
- 5 pm – Court or at Their Majesties discretion
- 7 pm – Feast, depending on court
- Sunday morning – Brunch Inn, tear down/clean up
Food:
- Inns (Breakfast and Lunch, menu below) Ms Juliana Macnayre, assistant HL Anastasia da Carrara
- Feast (Saturday evening, menu below) Ms Brigida von München
- Off-site Food at the Gobbler’s Roost (open Fri/Sat evenings and Sunday brunch) – https://gobblersroost.com/
A&S:
- Weaving demo/class
- Heraldic Consult table
- Pre-Print Painting Table
- Games area/s – Goose, Shut-the-Box, Gluckshaus…
- Competitions –
- Largesse Derby – Every entrant makes at least 8 “identical” items of largesse. After judging, the winner gets one of every entry. Then every other entrant can pick a single entry to keep. And the Crown gets everything left over. Populace choice.
- Love Tokens in any medium.
- Classes so far:
- Romance in the Middle Ages
- In Charge: Lady Brighid Eilifrsdottir
Merchants:
- Brighid’s Basket Barter
- Chasing Squirrels – miscellaneous crafty things by Sheri of Coeur d’Ennui
- Thistlewood Manor – wonderful soaps and more. http://www.thistlewoodmanorsoap.com/
- Fundraiser/Silent Auction
- Merchant/Auction Coordinator: Lady Brighid Eilifrsdottir
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Archery & Thrown Weapons:
- Friday Night Shoot
- Archery MIC: Lord Gobban MacRoibeard
- Thrown Weapons: Lady Avelyn Carbery
Martialate:
- 9 am inspections
- 10 am melee
- 11 am pickups
- Rattan MIC:
Breakfast Inn Menu (subject to change)
- Bacon, sausage, egg , cheese runzas
- NG* breakfast muffrunz (muffins with runza filling)
- Instant oatmeal packets
- Clementines
- Mini-quiches
- Hard boiled eggs
- Juice
- *NG = No Gluten-containing ingredients, may have cross-contamination
Noon Inn Menu (subject to change)
- Runzas: Beef and sauerkraut. Pizza. BBQ chicken. Mushroom and onion.
- NG Muffrunz: chicken and apple
- NG Vegetable soup, vegan. With rice noodles, chicken, and beef available on the side to add.
- NG Squash soup (vegetarian)
- Cheeses, including homemade cheese by Gida
- Bread and crackers
- Animal crackers and frosting
- NG ‘Nilla crisps and NG frosting
Available all day
- Coffee. Lemonade. Water. Teas. Hot water will be available.
Feast Menu (tentative)
- At table – cheese bruschetta, foccia with olive oil, garlic cheese tartlests, olives of many kinds
- First Remove – cold sliced ham cooked in spiced wine, red/violet mustard, herbed tortellini, cucumber salad, enriched twisted bread, grapes
- Second Remove – chicken roasted in spices with garlic walnut sauce, millet in a pan, broccoli
- Third Remove – apple tarts, roasted almond with sugar/salt/pepper, pears and apples, provolone cheese, candied orange peel and other comfits
- Beverages – lemon-flavored sweet water, rose-flavored sweet water, etc.
- Ingredients