TURNOVER FESTIVITIES AT GREEN RIDGE HOLD
During the morning, Lady Jianna will see petitioners bringing judgments for her
to make, settle disputes, or expand current holdings. Also during this time she
may officiate at handfastings or weddings for those wishing formal Hold sanction. Both at nooning and perhaps more elaborate for evening meal, all
manner of foods will be served. Dancing will be held in the Great Hall after evening meal, with music provided mostly by local
holdfolk. Directly after the meal, a chorus of Hold children will present a series of songs in
celebration of the Hold's first full turn.
The monthly market day will be held, perhaps this month larger than those of other months, with booths set up along paths between the Manor and
barn. The Hold itself will not offer goods for sale other than necessary supplies
always available. In addition, there will be a trading ship at dock bringing traders
to bargain for crafts produced by holdfolk and to offer special goods not normally available during market days.
During the afternoon, contests will be held for weavercrafts and will take place
in the weaver complex. Competition will be held in such things as spinning (spinning the most yarn in an hour, for example), crocheting (a crocheting
race in which the winner is the person who can most quickly complete two rows of
a scarf...), weaving (various categories here, as your persona might choose), and
knitting. Master Narba will judge the weaving. Prizes for each contest will be a packet of paper newly made at the paper mill.
A light meal of breaking fast will be available to those whose Turn's End celebrations were restrained enough to allow them a morning appetite, and
then the festivities move to the gather grounds north of the manor. Craftspeople
and vendors may move their booths as they chose. Runner races will be held throughout the day at the race loop, although the Hold will not enter since
their racers are at this point only turnlings. Various distances will be run; feel free to have your personas win--just don't have them win all *grin*. A
small sack of marks will be presented to each winner.
At nooning, herdbeast will be roasted in open pits at the gather grounds and the
noon meal will be taken there.
Foot races of various distances will be held after nooning, for children and also adults, east and across the road from the gather grounds. Longer
distances stretch southward, the longest going southward past the watchrider's weyr
and into the hills. Winners of children's races earn a mark; adults win a packet of
paper and a voucher for a pair of boots made by the tannery.
Betting will no doubt be lively on foot as well as runner races.
During the afternoon Master Aenggis will judge livestock in the paddocks near the barn, with judging for
ovines, herdbeasts and runnerbeasts. Winners of various classes take home sacks of feed appropriate for the species of
beast.
Evening meal will be the most elaborate of the feasts, again in both dining hall
and Great Hall. Again there will be singing by Hold children and then dancing late into the night.
Coordinator: Lady Holder Jianna
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