Short takes from Pennsic:

• At the A&S display we casually walked past high-quality displays just because we couldn't see everything and there were other high-quality displays. Well, that and crowds. Nifty. No musicians in evidence, but I'm not surprised -- that kind of setup doesn't work well for performance arts.
• Our camp was visited by Duke ( Read more... )

We went up to Cooper's Lake on Sunday to help with Pennsic camp setup. It sure is weird to not have the house in camp. But we're only going to be there for a couple days (middle Sunday and Monday), because we have other plans for that vacation time later in the year ( Read more... )

The Debatable Choir performed at Pennsic last week; check us out (~26 minutes). We knew we were running tight on time so instead of talking about each of the pieces our director made up a program. The list of songs is in the video description, but I'll also list them here for posterity ( Read more... )

I got a nasty surprise this Pennsic: the person now in charge of trailers at the site refused to move my little house to our camp as usual.
When our land agent had waited most of the day for the delivery and seen ( Read more... )

Preparing for Pennsic used to be...different.


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I never got around to writing up a big Pennsic entry, so here are some highlights in bullet form:

- Seeing osewalrus and family again was very nice -- been a while. Had the beginnings of a thoughtful theological discussion; need to figure out venue for continuing intermittently over time ( Read more... )

I'm home from Pennsic. More about that later I hope, but in the meantime: I haven't seen much of anything on LJ or DW in the last two weeks or so and probably won't catch up, so if there's something I should see, please let me know.

This was my 32nd Pennsic. As best I can recall, we had the best weather ( Read more... )

Tonight I attended the first session of Curious Tales of the Talmud, a six-week class. I hope to write more about the class itself later (good stuff), but for now, something else ( Read more... )

Wednesday night as we were preparing dinner a mighty storm came roaring down on us. It started with high winds, during which we dropped the canopies and made sure tents were secure. As the rains started, most of us headed for the house and a few instead headed for the pantry and kitchen, the other buildings (rather than tents) in camp ( Read more... )