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University Daily Kansan, September 4, 1981
Spare time
Pardon, m'ladies, is this 1981?
By DIANE MAKOVSKY
Staff Reporter
As the mandolin and lute music faded, Var of the Ivory Dungeon explained that she had grown up as a chatter and had run away to become a highgroan. The year was approximately 1800.
Var is really Cassandra Neff, a member of the Student Creative Anachronists,.
The Anachronists is a local subsidiary of the 18-year-old national Society for Creative Anachronism. The society's essential purpose, and one of its main goals, is to educate people about the period from A.D. 600-1650.
"The basic reason for the whole society is to re-create the best part of the medieval and Renaissance periods," member Karen O'Quin said.
BECAUSE THE SOCIETY does not impose a time period on its members, many, like Neff, develop persona to aid them in the study and understanding of a particular period.
The town of Lawrence is known as the Shire of Ystad Straddele, or Golden Valley, and is situated in the Middle Kingdom. There is a map that shows where the designates the location of all known SCA grounds.
A list published last spring in the national
A list published last spring in the national
quarterly magazine listed 317
magazine listed 317.
Copyright 1978 by K. E. Nelson
The society travels to events sponsored by other groups in the area. An event is usually a public engagement that includes a tournament, an association, a feast, a revel and sometimes a post-event.
United States. It did not list member groups in England and Germany.
*Tournaments*, *O'Quain*, 'are organized fishing events, sometimes judged on chivalry and
"On martial prowess," concluded Christopher Blodgett. the grun's Knights Marshall
BLODGETT, WHO HAS BEEN fighting for three years, teaches the group's other fighters. Martial arts fighting is similar to fencing, he said, and it involves the use of eight weapons.
Fighting in the tournaments follows the rules of courtly love, whereby a man fighters for his ladys or a woman fighters for her man, and also follows the general chivalry, described by Bloedgast as "gracious men".
Fighters "Learn how to judge a killing blow," Blodgett said. If a fighter is hit in such a way that a real weapon would have killed him, he acts out the death.
Weapons are made of wood, not metal, and the "bruises are just routine." Ridleytell said.
He compared the danger involved to that of playing football and said that he thought the game was dangerous.
There are strict safety rules and no one has been permanently injured since the inception of the national organization. Blogdett said.
HE DESCRIBED FIGHTING as "poetry. A ballet of fighting."
Besides tournaments, the group also is interested in the arts. Members are working on their skills in calligraphy and recorder playing. Ballet is most interested in Renaissance dancing.
The group is now seeking a place to practice. It has been informed that it may not use Robinson Gymnasium because not all group members are KU students or staff.
THE GROUP IS also trying to make up for the loss of a member with known medieval cooks from France to Texas.
David Cashin said, "One of the big things in medieval food is to make it look like something
The group discussed a dish that was served at its feast last year—tongue dishewed as fish.
Renaissance day activities ennun a revel. A revel consists of people, still in their medieval times.
"A cocktail hour without the cocktails," O'Quinn said.
A IN POST-REVEAL more than half the people change out of their costumes to become a mannequin.
Mundane, she explained, has become a noun for the group instead of an adjective. "The dreaded mundanes" may refer to people in everyday dress or just to everyday clothing.
Bldgott said that the group did not mean the word to be separationist and admitted that group members themselves became mundanes once they changed out of their costumes.
"Except for demonstrations, we don't do anything public." Cashin said, meaning that most tournaments are not attended by anyone but SCA members.
HOWEVER, from 1-5 p.m. on Sept. 13, the group will hold a demonstration and recruitment drive on the lawn outside Fraser Hall and Watson Library.
The demonstration will include hands-on instruction in calligraphy and Bloedget will "mit" the students.
There will also be dancing and some medieval-style refreshments.
For those interested, there will be a potluck dinner that evening. Blodgett said the group would be willing to loan some people costumes for the dinner.
The Lawrence group will not be involved with the Renaissance Festival to be held in Bonner Springs later this month. Members said that they had been informed that if they wanted to perform they would still be charged the admission fee.
SCA is a non-profit organization, but the Renaissance Festival is a profit-earning event run by a corporation.
The local anachronists try to be as authentic as their budgets allow. Blodgett said.
Prints tell small-town story
Arts calendar
Art
A collection of oil paintings by Andron Brookhart will be on display through Sept. 26 in the Main Room of the Kellas Gallery, 7 E. 7th St. No admission charge.
A collection of drawings by Jane Luckey will be on display through Sept. 26 in the East Room of the Kellas Gallery. No admission charge.
A collection of paintings by Miriam Schapro will be on display through Sept. 30 in the Kress Gallery of the Spencer Museum. No admission charge.
Joseph Pennell's collection of photographs depicting life in Junction City from 1894 to 1922 will be on display through Sept. 20 in the Museum through the Spencer Museum. No admission charge.
Music
Carlie, a reggae and calypso band, will perform at 9 tonight in the Lawrence Opera House. Admission is $2.50 for students and members and $3 general admission.
Andris Reuzakula, organist, will perform a recital at 8 p.m. Sunday in Swartwout Hall. (Credit: Katie McKee)
Paul Gray and the Gaslift Gang will perform Dixieland music at 9 toromorrow night in the Lawrence Opera House. Admission is $2 for students and members and $2.50 general admission.
Charles Hoag, professor of bass and music theory, will perform a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall. No admission charge.
Pet Tosh, reggae singer, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hook Auditorium. The Blue Riddim Band will open the concert. Reserved seatings can be $10 or $9 with a KUID.
Greek Sing begins at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ballroom of the Union. No admission charge.
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Reporter
A wedding couple stand together smiling nervously. Proud owners of the local drugstore display the shiny chrome of their soda fountain. These are only two of more than 40,000 negatives taken by Joseph Judd Pennell. Seventy prints are now on display at the Spencer Art Museum.
"It forms an excellent documentary of the years the man worked," said Gary Mason, head of the photojournalism sequence for the School of Journalism.
"It's a piece of history we would not have had except for Pennell."
Pennell was the local photographer for Junction City from 1984 until his death in 1922. From his shop located on the main street of town, he took out to record the everyday life of his neighbors.
He worked during the early days of glass plates and negative, his work was not easy.
The collection now at the Spencer Art Museum was made possible through the efforts of Thomas Southhail, curator of photography at the museum, and the Mid-America Art Alliance.
"I wanted to put together a show, I wanted to
make good use of the negatives and show their range, "said Southall.
He worked with the Art Alliance in Kansas City to put together the collection.
After showing at the Art Museum, the 'career' can go all over the Midwest and probably begin soon.
The negatives have a long history at the University of Kansas. They were donated to the school by Pennell's son, novelist Joseph Stanley in 1950, and originally were stored in the stadium.
"They were stored absolutely terrily," said Orland Wagner, a Kansas City Times photographer who helped with the restoration of the glass plates.
"They were on five grocery flats in boxes. The negatives were wrapped in newspaper, which was kept in the pantry."
A process called archival, which extends the glass plates and the glass plates and enables prints to be made.
The negatives are now in permanent storage in the Kansas Collections at Spencer Library.
They have been used by Time-Life Books, historical journals and several documentaries.
Rock Chalk Revue theme announced; eleven groups begin work on skits
The spotlight theme, announced last week, was chosen by Marthe Dreher, producer of the show.
Although the show is not until the end of February, several living groups have already begun working on their skirts for 1982 Rock Chalk Revue, "In the Spotlight."
"It's broad enough to allow lots of possibilities for story lines," Dreher said. "I also liked the sound of it." It sounded showy."
Dreher said that directors from 11 living groups attended last week's director meeting.
The other ten groups were fraternity and sorority combinations...
Each group must write an original 20-minute musical skit. Notebooks, containing the scripts, music, and costume and set designs are due by the 15th of each skill will be chosen for the February show.
Halver Hall, possibly working with Haskinger
Hall, was the only residence hall represented
the next year.
Dreher said she told the directors to try to stay away from the traditional lol lines.
"I'd like to see some new formats in the stories," she said.
"I want to stay away from the 'boy-meets-girl' the kiss-finale skirts."
The show is a fund-raiser for KU-Y.
This photograph by Joseph Pennell is one of 70 on display in the Spencer Art Museum. The photographs were taken between 1894 and 1922 in Junction City and Fort Riley,
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