Cookies and cool hand-made items

OK, as many of you have already figured out, part of today's to-do list was to send out reminders about two Travel Fund fund-raisers going on this month.

If you have seen this before, I apologize.

You may feel free to forward these judiciously, knowing that anyone on EK List, Concordia, Glenn Linn or the SCA LJ has seen it already. It's going to Royal Household lists, too.

1. There will be a second edition of the Princess’ Cookie Caper at 12th Night, Saturday, Jan. 16, in Barre, Vt.

 We need people to bake cookies and people to buy cookies.

 The cookies will be $10 a pound and all proceeds will go to the  Royal Travel Fund.

 This sale is being coordinated by me and Lady Frigga from Glenn Linn. We could certainly use a couple of people to take shifts at the table.

 The sale is planned to run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 Please send me a note privately if you would like to help or if you are going to make cookies.

 All donations should include recipe cards.Your cookie choice is limited only by your imagination.

 2. The  “By Our Own Hands” exhibition and silent auction, which will be held at the Marketplace at Birka, Jan. 30, in Manchester, NH.

All residents of the kingdom are invited to use their arts & sciences skills to create something to be raffled off to benefit the Royal Travel Fund. These can be items you have already made, something you might make between now and then or promissory notes for items such as scrolls or clothing you will make at a future date. (If you are offering a promissory, it would be great if you could include a picture or examples of something similar you have done. Bards are welcome to donate promissories for songs, poems or similar pieces.

In all cases, we would like the item to have an information sheet, with some documentation about it and its creator.

I think we can really have some fun with this.

Please contact me privately if you would like to donate, and let me know the logistics as well.

My e-mail is liamstliam@gmail.com

 

A couple of really interesting pieces from the NY Times

1. There's more to publishing than meets the screen," an op-ed piece by Jonathan Galassi.

Fascinating articles that asks the question, "Is a published work, which has been edited and promoted by a publishing company, really the property of the author's estate and can it be sold -- whole -- an to a company to make it an e-book?"

The only thing that botherd me was the failure of the paper to identify Galassi as the president of a publishing company.

2. "Dennis Brutus Dies at 85; Fought Apartheid With Sports"

It's strange when a hero dies and that's the first you heard about him.

Brutus, who for a time was in a cell next to Nelson Mandela at the Robben Island penal colony, pushed for -- and got -- bans on South African teams in various international competition because Blacks were passed over in favor of less-talented Whites and because of apartheid itself.