How It All Started

In early 2020 the COVID epidemic swept across the world.  By March most non essential places were closed down and many companies had sent their employees to work from home.  Most hobby / recreation groups had suspended their meetings and events / festivals were cancelled.

 

Our group had some members with health conditions that put them at risk if they had been infected with COVID so we were very careful about exposure.  FIRE continued to meet in our small group and found new and exciting on line classes to share and explore.

 

By 2023 the world was returning to the new normal and things were opening back up, groups were meeting again, and events / festivals were coming back.  As FIRE came back out and started to look around to get in touch with groups and people we had worked with before, we quickly found our world had greatly changed!  Some of the groups we had played with were no longer there.  For those groups that had made it through, our contacts were no longer there, and there had been so much staff turnover that those now involved had not heard of us.  We were going to have to build our connections again.

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New Friendships and Opportunities

As we looked around to see what groups were around, one of our members (Jennifer) found a group called CROFT (Celtic Reenactment Of Fellowship and Trade).  She spend several months researching them and attending meetings and found them to be great people, with tons of knowledge, and happy to share..... she knew she had found something special!  At one of the FIRE meetings she brought them up and we all decided to give them a try.......... and soon we had a new project....... Celtic!!!

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