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Winter Feast at Dragon's Gate

==Event Staff==
Steward: [[Uta Blackthorne]]

==Highlights==
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==From the Kingdom Calendar== 

Once upon a long time ago there was only ice, solid and white, cold and 
unchanging. Deep from under the ice came Dragon. First cracking, then breaking though and melting most of the ice, creating an ocean. Slowly Dragon built a home for herself, a lava stone cauldron of fire. Dragon lived there for a long time and so here home grew large. Trees and birds lived in harmony between the fire and the ice. 

One day dogs came running and hunting. They were very hungry and vicious. They 
saw Dragon and went after her, biting her tail. Dragon became angry, thrashing 
her tail and throwing fire all over the land, scorching the trees, blackening 
the earth and overwhelming the ice with fire, melting it. 

Now the dogs were scorched and blackened as well. Realizing what they had done they let go of Dragon and ran howling to the ocean to cool off. This caused steam to billow into the sky creating a great dark cloud. With a clap of 
thunder and lightening, snow and rain fell, cooling the land and making the 
first winter, bringing back the balance between fire and ice. 

Dragon, in her wisdom, saw that it was natural for the dogs to hunt and forgave them, bidding them to hunt creatures of a more reasonable size. The dogs, with singed fur, agreed. To celebrate this balance between fire and ice and of the Dragon and the dogs of Caldaria do we have Winters Feast. In a traditional manner starting Friday night thru Sunday morning; feasting, dancing and sleeping in the great hall of Dragon's Gate. 

Saturday January 8th is feast day. Activities include; 
Potluck breaking of fast 
Lighting of the Dragon 
Games 
Bread making 
Stone soup and it's story 
All manner of "period as possible" cooking and baking 
Sunset Procession 
Evening feasting with gift exchange 
Dancing 

Sunday January 9th; Breakfast, Clean up and site closes at noon 

Other Notes: Please bring your groceries (there will be a sign up on the Big 
Island SCA Yahoo group) feast gear, table, chairs, decorations and sleeping 
gear. Garden house and Barn are also available for crash space. Available for 
use with prior arrangement with event steward is the indoor kitchen with two 
ovens, out door kitchen with three – six gas burners and the Roman Oven for wood fired baking. You will need to bring any extra cooking supplies and groceries. 

Please contact the event steward to make arrangements for your cooking or baking needs. The gift exchange is optional and can be as simple as small useful items like candles, trim or cookies or be elaborate presentations. 

All meals are potluck, please plan on signing up for meals and clean up as there is no site fee!

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