A new Ren court dress for dancing. I have the earrings I'm basing the dress on. Now all I have to do is find the fabrics, trim, beads, make a corset and hoops, get shoes, figure out a hat and make the thing! I already have a bumroll, so that makes the job so much easier. :-) Sharon
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cin Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:24 AM To: h-cost Subject: Re: [h-cost] Making history hip (OT) Tangier Is has an airport & has had one for 40+ years. I've flown in there. Small planes, mind you. It's also accessible by anyone with a motorboat. You didnt need a satellite TV to pick up "foreign" or "polluting" accents. There was radio available and broadcast TV, too. None of these places are so isolated as these stories like to pretend. When I was a kid, we used to spend the morning fishing in the Chesapeake, then go to the Tangier inn & restaurant and get the world's best grits & gravy. They do have a distinctive accent, often attributed to massive inbreeding. That was probably just our Accomac county snobbery talking. I remember reading a Thomas Hardy novel, maybe Jude the Obscure, and thinking that the provincial Sussex accent mocked by another character sounded remarkably like someone from Rappahannock VA. Can we get back to our regularly scheduled topic? Here's a question for you: If you had sufficient resources to make your dream costume, what would it be? --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Most versions I have heard of this refer to Tangiers Island, which is > off of Virginia not the Carolinas, I have heard references to the Carolinas and even the Ozarks! Tangiers is still accessible only by ferry. Of course none of the various places in America I have heard touted as having a surviving 16th century accent were in fact settled in that period! > Ron Carnegie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
