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On 6/20/2025 2:54 AM, Jeff Berry wrote:
>> [Hal Heydt]
>> I'm old enough that many of those dying of old age are poeple
>> I've met or known for decades.  Siegfried was one of those.  When
>> my wife died 3 years ago, we'd been married for over 50 years.
>> Her first event was the second event ever held.
> 
> You're making me feel like a youngster and a newbie - I've only been in
> for 40 years or so ...
> 
> But, yes.  Two of the people who were formative in my early SCA career
> have passed away in the last decade, and several more that I've known
> for not quite as long.
> 
>>> On the other hand, we've also been around long enough that second
>>> and third generation people are making their presence felt.  Not
>>> just those whose parents joined when they were already sort of
>>> grown, but those who were literally born into the SCA.
>> That applies to my daughter--who turns 50 this year.
> 
> Excellent! At least I'm a few years older than she is ...
> 
> Alexandre
> ------------
> Jeff Berry - http://www.aspiringluddite.com - food, musings, etc.
> "I don't need TV when I got T-Rex" - Mott the Hoople
> 
> 
Yeah.  I remember my first SCA event.  It was October 1980, and the demo 
was at the UMass College Center complex.

They were playing Croquet on flagstones.


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--Sfi Mordehai ben Yosef Yitzhak, Aka Matthew G. Saroff

This is not the Dream.  This is what I do on weekends to have
some fun.

The Dream involves 4 sets of identical twins, 2 gallons of Cool
Whip, 5 quarts of chocolate syrup, 2-1/4 pounds of strawberries,
satin sheets, a magnum of champagne, a trapeze, and a python.
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est.

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Is the Rialto Still a Thing "Matthew G. Saroff" <msaroff@pobox.com> - 2025-05-22 00:18 -0400
  Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2025-05-22 04:38 +0000
    Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing Todd Rich <torin@panix.com> - 2025-05-23 14:44 +0000
      Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2025-05-23 19:07 +0000
        Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing nexus@panix.com (Jeff Berry) - 2025-06-03 04:28 -0400
  Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing Nikolai Petrovich <phamp@mindspring.com> - 2025-06-18 15:59 -0700
    Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2025-06-19 00:21 +0000
      Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing nexus@panix.com (Jeff Berry) - 2025-06-19 03:33 -0400
        Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2025-06-19 19:30 +0000
          Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing nexus@panix.com (Jeff Berry) - 2025-06-20 02:54 -0400
            Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing "Matthew G. Saroff" <msaroff@pobox.com> - 2025-06-26 14:21 -0400
              Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2025-06-26 19:53 +0000

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