Porcfest has begun. When Jerry and I arrived we found Kate, Alex, Christa, John, Tony and Tom. We needed some stuff, but nobody is home at Agorist Alley.
If we missed anyone, let us know you are here.
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have fun, don't drink all the Beer.
I'm in the Red Cabin with Osborne. See ya'll tomorrow.
I'll be there Wednesday afternoon/evening. I'll be selling Salsacado, hot dogs, sodas, candy bars. Brigitte will be selling massages. See you soon!
Quote from: jdtalley on June 20, 2010, 11:53 PM NHFT
I'm in the Red Cabin with Osborne. See ya'll tomorrow.
Hah! So now we know were the trouble makers are!
Whatever, dude. We wandered around the campground at 2230 and couldn't find anyone awake. If that's PorcFest, I wish I would have just gone to visit my local nursing home.
Well maybe it's just off to a slow start.
But if ya need to here ya go= http://www.genesishcc.com/index.cfm?facility_id=105&page_id=3 (http://www.genesishcc.com/index.cfm?facility_id=105&page_id=3)
cool
we saw tom and tony just before they left and jason too :)
i guess mengerfan and i are on different tracks
kat and i will visit on saturday only during daylight hours :)
Dang. Tried to get to this one this year, but it wouldn't work.
Wish I were there!
Quote from: MengerFan on June 21, 2010, 01:07 AM NHFT
Whatever, dude. We wandered around the campground at 2230 and couldn't find anyone awake. If that's PorcFest, I wish I would have just gone to visit my local nursing home.
Were in a trailer. Park Model 20
Agorist Alley Monday Morning. Jerry wanted to post this, but is having trouble with the Underground Forum.
Agorist Alley Tuesday morning.
Dale does pancakes.
Thanks Jerry.
Porcs continue to arrive at Rogers.
http://www.laconiadailysun.com/BerlinPDF/2010/6/22B.pdf (http://www.laconiadailysun.com/BerlinPDF/2010/6/22B.pdf)
Liberty comes to Lancaster
LANCASTER — The Porcupine Freedom Festival takes place from June 24-27, at Roger's Campground in Lancaster. Now in its seventh year and hosted by the Free State Project (FSP), "PorcFest" brings together more than seven hundred liberty oriented people for a weekend of camping, with speakers, panel discussions, outdoor activities, live music, and more. The opening speaker is freedom philosopher Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio, and the closing speaker is former governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson of the Our America Initiative.
Admission costs $25 online (www.porcfest2010.com (http://www.porcfest2010.com)) and $30 at the door.
The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire to shrink the size of government.
"We are looking for neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors, who agree to the political philosophy that government exists at most to protect people's rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else," said FSP President Varrin Swearingen.
On Thursday, June 24, Michael Badnarik, constitutional scholar and 2004 Libertarian presidential candidate will teach an eight hour immersion class on the U.S. Constitution. Tickets cost $100 and include a free copy of Mr. Badnarik's book Good to Be King. On Friday, June 25, Marc Stevens will teach "Adventures in Legal Land." Tickets are $70 and includes a criminal script and motion template. "We'll be working extensively with each and doing role-playing and mock trial proceedings," said Mr. Stevens.
Live radio interviews will be broadcast daily from Roger's Campground. In addition to nationally syndicated Free Talk Live with hosts Ian Freeman and Mark Edge, Ernest Hancock of Freedom Phoenix will broadcast two shows on Thursday and Friday for Republic Broadcasting Network and Liberty News Radio. Attendees are encouraged to be guests and to discuss issues important to them.
Outdoor activities include organized hikes, shooting with certified firearms instructors, Ultimate Frisbee, a horseshoe tournament, a climbing wall, and two afternoons of kids activities such as Porcupet Olympics and gymnastics. On Friday evening, Jordan Page will headline the live music extravaganza. Talks will be given on various subjects, including the NH Constitution, the role of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance, "Inside the Legislative Process with Joel Winters," "Effective Marketing on a Shoestring Budget," and the NH Liberty Alliance will speak about their role in holding local government accountable.
Theme camps are encouraged and a prize will be given for the best camp. On Saturday night, after the Ladies of Liberty One Pot Cook-Off, preregistered contestants will take to the stage for Soapbox Idol. Loosely based on American Idol, contestants have three minutes to rant and try to win over the crowd and panel of judges.
"Soapbox Idol was a runaway success last year," said PorcFest organizer, Carla Gericke. "The competition this year is going to be fierce! Our goal with this year's PorcFest was to highlight both nationally recognized liberty luminaries, and our in-state activists. Porcupines--activists who have already made the move to NH--will host various events, from activist training sessions, to Ladies' Night Karaoke." Asked why the Porcupine was the Free State Project's mascot, Ms. Gericke said: "Porcupines are peaceful creatures, but you don't want to tread on one."
For more information about the Porcupine Freedom Festival and to buy tickets, visit www.porcfest2010.com (http://www.porcfest2010.com).
Ice Cream Social to benefit Scholars Academy
Bagging information packets
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on June 21, 2010, 09:34 AM NHFT
Agorist Alley Monday Morning. Jerry wanted to post this, but is having trouble with the Underground Forum.
they are in hiding until you say the magic words
"I can pay in gold or silver"
cool pictures
i like the article furnished by the porcfest crew
my schedule for Saturday:
Dale's pancakes to start the day
bang on the the red cabin door to wake up jason and jason
i will be openly carrying a water pistol, so i can go to war with the assassin kids :)
some agorist alley time
Pimp my activism
olympics
pot debate
photo
state-free weddings
liberty ladies cookoff
soap box idol
jason and jason wake up for the party
Does Lloyd manage to get in every photo?
Quote from: KBCraig on June 22, 2010, 09:25 PM NHFT
Does Lloyd manage to get in every photo?
OK, you caught me. I confess, Lloyd and I are the only ones here. Everyone else is Photoshopped in. ;)
Thanks for the pictures - see you tomorrow ..
Can I please have a report on the status of the showers?
Thanks.
Quote from: Coconut on June 22, 2010, 09:56 PM NHFT
Can I please have a report on the status of the showers?
Thanks.
The one in my trailer works fine.
I can ask one of the tent campers tomorrow how their's are. :)
I have looked at the weather forecast, here versus there, and now I have to confess that I hate you all.
Quote from: Coconut on June 22, 2010, 09:56 PM NHFT
Can I please have a report on the status of the showers?
Thanks.
the showers near tent sites #76 are tiled, clean, hot, good size but clean water off a warm roof would be enough for me
It rained last night, intermittently this morning. Everything is looking green and perky. ;)
Kate's beading class.
Organizing Porcfest is driving Carla to drink.
Another arrival on Agorist alley.
He has didgeridoos.
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on?
Sorry, campers, that wasn't PatK falling off his cooler. It was just a 5.5 quake over by Ottawa.
The perfect accessory for Porcfest
Something for all ages at Rogers.
More arrivals Wednesday.
Agorist Alley newcomer
Shire silver available on Agorist Alley
Rare photo of Ridley NOT holding a camera.
Agorist Alley is starting to fill in.
More Agorist vendors
Very Cool.
I will be leaving for Porc Fest in a few hours. ;D
I miss read the caption for Kates photo, I thought it
said Beheading class. I thought wow that Kate is
really going wild.
Also I never, repeat never fall off my cooler.
cool stuph
Lots of folks. Hardly recognize anyone. Cool!
Bardo project folks did a pig roast.
we had fun for a few hours there yesterday :)
PorcFest was amazing.
Huge kudos to Ron and Shire Silver (http://shiresilver.com/). It was truly amazing to see the amount of metals being used, and the convenience of the small-denomination Shire Silver cards played a large role in that, in my estimation. Buying a piece of baklava with a ounce (or even half-ounce) coin is inconvenient. Buying it with a gram of silver is not. Folks who had only thought of metals as a theoretical good idea, whet their appetites with actual usage. I only spent $12 in FRN's on the site. All the other transactions within PorcFest were silver (largely ShireSilver) or direct barter.
Agora Alley was great. By the first day, we were already convinced that we wanted to be right there, again, in the same site. We may actually take the adjoining site, too, if some of our plans work out. So many sites outside those rows were also set up for sales, that I heard a rumor that "The Alley" will be four rows, next year. We may even take two sites, next year, if some plans come though. Hats off to Curtis.
Hats off to Roger's Campground, as well, for willingly telling the local cops not to patrol during the actual event. While "Lancaster's Finest" have seemed to be a cut above the typical cops, they are still cops, and it was great for Roger's to take the risk of getting hassled in the future in order to help protect their guests from getting hassled, right now.
Still tired and unpacking, so I'm going to skip thanking and congratulating a few dozen other folks who deserve it, but I expect others will fill in for me and thank many of the same ones.
My favorite quote, from this morning, was, "it's like we created our own world here, separate from the Statist world out there." And that's really what happened. It's been building for years, and we finally hit some sort of tipping point. Porcupines aren't a subculture, anymore... we have our own culture. There were folks there I love like family, folks who are my friends, faces I recognized and nodded at, total strangers, folks I dislike, and folks I really wish would choke and die. Just like there are, outside PorcFest.
A bit under five years ago was the first PorcFest I was able to attend. The group was still small, then. We all pretty much knew each other. Things were almost totally positive. Now, there are strangers and even folks who actively dislike each other. We still made it work. Like I said, it's now a real culture, not a subculture with carefully-selected membership. I don't (and didn't) doubt that liberty can work, because it's worked elsewhere. But now it's worked for the Porcupines. Now just because we carefully made it work, but because it took on a life of its own, and made itself work.
Joe
great observations. I saw Shire silver EVERYWHERE!
I also saw something else, or a lack of it rather. Fighting. I didn't see one fight. THere were LOTS of different styles of libertarian viewpoints. With all the drinking, drugging, etc. .. not even a real shouting match.
the only thing was someone bitching that people with cameras were following around the armed gang the one time they showed up. At first I thought this was a new person, but I was wrong. I wonder what was so surprising.
I was talking to some folks about this back at Rogers. I didn't hear about any fighting. This probably defies all of the statistics concerning large groups of people, many carrying guns and many who must be inexperienced drinkers.
Anyone know if Stefan Molyneux keynote address will be uploaded to youtube or some place I could watch it? I'm assuming there were people filming it so it's just a matter of time but was just wondering if anyone knew first hand.
I'm also trying to get video of the closing ceremonies.