Quarter Peal Fortnight

[Amy L Moore <amymoore MIT EDU>]

Don roped me into organizing Boston's part in the North American Guild 
Quarter
Peal Fortnight. The premise behind this event is that every tower and 
handbell
group in North America rings a quarter peal (or more) during a fortnight, 
and
hopefully achieve some goals that the band sets for itself. The event is 
being
organized by Sara Miller, assisted by Mike Schulte and our very own Don.

For our part, Don suggests that we ring at both towers and try to include 
as
many people as possible. As you've probably guessed, this event will 
entail us
ringing (hopefully) lots of quarters.

So. The North American Guild Quarter Peal Fortnight will take place from 
October
1st to the 16th. Here's what I need from you lot:

1. Availability. Any quarters that take place at Old North will be during
regular service ringing (2nd, 9th, 16th October). At Advent, it will be a
Saturday and/or Sunday afternoon. So let me know what day(s) you can make 
it
and the maximum number of quarters you are willing to ring.

2. I realize this may be an extremely ignorant question, but please give 
me a
rough idea of what you are capable of ringing, for purposes of band 
placement.

3. What would you like to ring? Here's your chance to request to do any 
method
you want!

4. Any other reasonable goals you can think of that we should try to 
accomplish?

And I think that's it for now, unless someone tells me there's something 
I've
forgotten.

~Amy

PS: If the handbell group wishes to participate, by all means! Though I 
think
it's best if somebody other than me organizes it. Do be sure to let me 
know of
any plans that get made so I can drop a line to Ms. Miller.