Baron and Baroness Cheryl of Castlewhyte announced that they were resigning as Baron and Baroness due to outside demands on their time.
Annotations:
“What this is short-hand for is that the stagflationary economy made
their business as an independent plumbing and heating contracting company
incompatible with having as demanding a hobby as being SCA Territorial
Baron(ess).
"Since the story is going to come
up about now, here is my version of what happened.
“The Baronial Mucky-Mucks (to use
Stone's term) were already concerned. When King Douglas received
David and Cheryl's resignation, he called Patti and I for our
input ... who among the Golden Rivers gentry would be the best
new Baron/ess. We told him, more or less, that - while there
was oodles of talent in the barony, there were no native(s)
of Sacramento who could both fill David and Cheryl's shoes as
figureheads/focuses and work smoothly with the two of us as
expert resources/kingdom insiders. He took it under advisement
and called back a day or two later and asked if we would be
willing to take on the job. We asked if we could think on
it and get back to him.
“Two years before, we had deliberately
decided when we found Golden Rivers, that we were going to be
a resource, NOT a power, in the fragile new group that we had
will'e-nill'e joined by moving. (And we had done so for
almost two years). But our assessment for the King was
accurate - the barony was on its way to being something big, but
there was nobody who could be both baron and power behind the
throne effectively except the PattiPhil and we weren't willing to
let all of the good work and progress die for lack of an
experienced guiding pair of hands. (Even though we damn' well
knew that we would wind up with some folks hating us and probably
work ourselves to death before it was over.) When we called
Doug back we accepted the 'honor'.
“When you adopt a child you are
morally bound to do the best you can.” – Kevin Peregrynne
Description of this event,
© Copyright 1980 by William R. Keyes (Wilhelm von Schlüssel)
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