ADLOCVTIO
NEWSLETTER OF THE TWENTIETH LEGION
Vol. XX, no. v, May 2010
ROMAN DAYS!!
Roman Days 2010 will be held on June 5-6 at Riversdale Mansion in
Riverdale, MD. They are listing RD as "Rome at Riversdale" on
their calendar but it will still be centered around the same RD that we
all have come to know and love. The street address is 4811
Riverdale Rd, Riverdale, MD 20737, http://www.riversdale.org/
Public hours will be 10-4 on Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday, and admission
for the public is, uh, I think it's $5 for adults and 3 or 4 bucks for
students, something like that...
We can arrive and set up is on Friday. The gates will be closed
in the evening but not locked, so you can still bring your cars in
during the night. You can drive on the grass (carefully!) to
unload at your campsite, and park in the lot overnight. Since
parking is somewhat limited, however, participants and vendors should
park in the streets around the site during public hours, leaving the
lot open for visitors.
The Riversdale staff is very enthusiastic, and they are planning a
number of excellent children's activities. They are also hoping
to tie Roman history in the Neoclassical theme of the Federal period in
which the mansion was built (c. 1800 AD). So we might have some
people in other period funny clothes wandering around.
There should be plenty of space. Our various legion tents will be
under the trees at the west side of the front lawn, with their backs to
the visitor center. The vendors will be at the left (northwest)
corner of the tent line, and the Celts and other worth barbarians under
the pair of trees at the north side of the lawn (directly across from
the mansion). The caupona will be near the kitchen, a separate
building just east of the house, and the artillery range will be behind
the house. There is a water faucet on the back wall of the
visitor center, plus real bathrooms! (And a porta-potty or two at
night.) Ground fires are not permitted, but raised braziers or
stoves are allowed (probably a good idea to bring your own wood or
charcoal).
Come one, come all! Remember, you do NOT have to be a reenactor
to participate in some way! And you don't have to be a Roman,
either--we'd love to see Greeks, Egyptians, Britons, Carthaginians, or
anything else like that. More information is *supposed* to be on
the Roman Days page of the Legio XX site, and on the Roman Days Wiki,
but I think we're a tad behind on all that…
http://www.larp.com/legioxx/rdays.html
http://romandays.wikispaces.com/
There is also the Roman Days planning Yahoo email group,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romandays/
Hope to see you at Roman Days!!
CELTIC FESTIVALS
June 12-13, the weekend after Roman Days, we are
invited to encamp at the Potomac Celtic Festival in Leesburg,
Virginia. We've done this one a couple times, and the unit
actually gets PAID to attend! Perfect gig if you happen to be
unable to come to Roman Days for some reason, eh? http://www.potomaccelticfest.org/
We also have an invitation to the Virginia Scottish
Games, September 4-5 at Great Meadows, The Plains, Virginia. http://www.vascottishgames.org/
We had a pretty good time at that one, last year, so keep it in mind.
Alec Cunningham has information on a number of other
Celtic/Scottish festivals, so contact him if you are up for any of
these:
Williamsburg Highland Festival, October 2
Richmond Highland Games and Celtic Festival, October 23-24
REENACTOR YARD SALE
Got a basement full of kit you're not using? Need a few extra
bucks for that new musket, uniform, suit of Armor? Looking for a
new uniform, or suit of Armor?
Come to the Reenactors' Yard Sale (Multi-period)
June 19, 2010 (Rain date June 20, 2010), 10 AM - 4 PM
The Yard Sale will be at:
9611 Baltimore National Pike
Myersville, MD 21773
$10 Vendor Registration Fee (non-refundable)
Fees due by May 8; all proceeds will benefit a local historic site (TBD)
Mail checks to: Mea Clift
9502 Harmony Road
Myersville MD 21773
or feel free to send via paypal to domi143 AT yahoo DOT com--please put
"Reenactors' Yard Sale" in the payment notes
Please also RSVP to: meapet AT gmail DOT com so we know that 1- your
Money is coming and 2- we have a space for you!
Site per vendor: 8' x 8'
Bring your own blanket (the place we're having it on is a bit of a
hill, so we're asking more for blankets than tables.)
[Quintus notes: Not a Legio XX event, but should be worth seeing,
especially for us multi-era types!]
CALENDAR
June 5-6-- ROMAN DAYS
June 12-13 --Potomac Celtic Festival, Morven Park
Equestrian Center, Leesburg, VA
September 4-5 --Virginia Scottish Games
September 11 --Hartwood Days Fair, Fredericksburg, VA
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ADLOCVTIO is the Official Newsletter of the Twentieth Legion,
supposedly published on the Ides of each month. I am Quintus, aka
Matthew Amt, the Legion's Commander and Editor of the Newsletter,
matthew_amt AT yahoo DOT com, http://www.larp.com/legioxx/