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Fox and Geese and Alquerque - Travel Edition
These were my first attempts at making some game boards. They were done in a bit of a hurry in the couple of days before my first re-creation event. I had a stroke of luck a few days before the event in a charity shop called Crest. Whilst wandering around I discovered a bin of furniture remnants including a leather seat cushion cover. The outside surface of this was tanned to within an inch of it's life, however the inside was still a very nice dark chamois like leather. Lacking paper and…
Tablas Bar
Hello, again, perishinkers. Time for another game of yesteryear with yer auld Uncle Bilbo. And hasn't it been ages?! How're you? How's your old Dad? This time I'm turning my pyrography pen on a member of one of the oldest family of games which will be known here and ever after as tables. The member of this family that survives down to us is backgammon, a version that certainly already existed in the middle-ages and is listed in Alfonso X's book of games as Todas Tablas. Incidentally, I read…
9.) Ashville Viking Festival Review – April 30, 2011
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I returned to the Ashville Viking Festival in 2018. You can read that experience here: https://ohiofestivals.net/9-ashville-viking-festival-april-30-2011/ ******************** When I first heard that there was a Viking Festival in Ashville, Ohio, I didn’t really…
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Fox and Geese and Alquerque - Travel Edition
These were my first attempts at making some game boards. They were done in a bit of a hurry in the couple of days before my first re-creation event. I had a stroke of luck a few days before the event in a charity shop called Crest. Whilst wandering around I discovered a bin of furniture remnants including a leather seat cushion cover. The outside surface of this was tanned to within an inch of it's life, however the inside was still a very nice dark chamois like leather. Lacking paper and…
Tablas Bar
Hello, again, perishinkers. Time for another game of yesteryear with yer auld Uncle Bilbo. And hasn't it been ages?! How're you? How's your old Dad? This time I'm turning my pyrography pen on a member of one of the oldest family of games which will be known here and ever after as tables. The member of this family that survives down to us is backgammon, a version that certainly already existed in the middle-ages and is listed in Alfonso X's book of games as Todas Tablas. Incidentally, I read…
9.) Ashville Viking Festival Review – April 30, 2011
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I returned to the Ashville Viking Festival in 2018. You can read that experience here: https://ohiofestivals.net/9-ashville-viking-festival-april-30-2011/ ******************** When I first heard that there was a Viking Festival in Ashville, Ohio, I didn’t really…