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Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Is the Rialto Still a Thing
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Date 2025-06-26 19:53 +0000
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In article <103k32p$qoj$1@reader2.panix.com>,
Matthew G. Saroff <msaroff@pobox.com> wrote:
>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.

[Hal Heydt]
Not bad.  My first event was West Kingdom Crown Tourney on 21
March 1970.  I met Dorothea that day.  Dorothea of Caer-Myrrdin's
first event was...the second event ever.  That means, in the
West, that she was NOT a "dinosaur", though as I understand it,
she would have been one in any other kingdom.

--Hal Ravn aka Hal Heydt

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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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