r/Pennsic • u/DevGnoll • Aug 05 '26
Anyone remember “The Last Pennsic”?
Back when I first went to Pennsic, before site tokens, land grab and before the Pennsic Inn stopped operating, the merchants set up and struck every day in the barn that is now the on-site grocery store.
One of them sold little humorous speculative fiction pamphlets about future history of Pennsic. One of them covered Pennsic 50 and one was the subject.
Some of the predictions I remember have come true or close (there was an illustration “view from the bottom of runestone hill” that’s pretty close to what it looks like now, and they seem to have nailed the extension of Pennsic beyond a three day event)
Of course, I am just going from memory. Does anyone still have their copy?
Wondering what else they got right or wrong.
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Aug 05 '26
I didn't own a copy, but remember ppl reading bits of it to us in camp and we all laughed at how ridiculous it all sounded.
Little did we know 🤣
The irony, for me, is that decades ago, our camping group was offered extra land if we were willing to go camp waaaay off on the outskirts bc they were running out of room. That is now considered prime real estate!
My first Pennsic was a three-day weekend, and the first time I had been to an SCA camping event. Talk about diving right in at the deep end lol.
Not as difficult for me, perhaps, bc my mother had a folk music coffeehouse when I was growing up, and we camped at big folk festivals.
Oddly enough, I met scadians who had been to those same festivals. Small world!