BABABABABABABABABABABABABABABPART EIGHT
A GENERAL
HISTORY OF
REFORMED
DRUIDISM IN
AMERICA
a.k.a
The Gregarious Epistle of
Michael
or
The Adventures of Prolix the
Druid
An unofficial and very controversial attempt by Michael
Scharding to provide his own personal overview of the main
historical events that he believes has affected the development
of the various Reformed Druid movements in North America
over the first 34 years of their organizational histories. Best
read with the primary materials that are found in the other
parts of “A Reformed Druid Anthology” (see next page).
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Blessing
May the blessings of the all-surrounding Earth-Mother be upon you,
gentle reader. May my words find a welcome home with you. Please
excuse the gregarious nature of my ramblings. It is over ten times
longer than any other epistle in Druidic history, but probably of less
value than their compact wisdom. Read it at a slow pace, ponder it,
and then tell me what you think of it. Please, do not consider it
dogma and try to forgive my errors and biases. If you do this, you
may receive the greatest blessing of all.
Dedication
I’d like to dedicate this paper in the memory of my grandparents,
Emmet Gerald Scharding and Billie Johnston Scharding, without
whose love and funding I would not have been able to attend Carleton
or to write this epistle.
Acknowledgements
Special Thanks goes to Eric Hilleman for helping me to gather,
organize and interpret the International Druid Archives. I’d also like
to thank all the people whom I have interviewed to write this paper,
especially the Frangquists, the Sheltons, Norman Nelson, Robert
Larson and Isaac Bonewits. Mark Heiman is to be thanked for the
final visual format.
It would be remiss not to thank Professor Phillip Niles for his
superhuman patience with my first 10 proposals and innumerable
redrafts. Without his help, I wouldn’t have ever come even close to
the dubious quality of this paper.
YO!
BIG, PROMINENT DISCLAIMER TO
OTHER DRUIDS
This work is not to be assumed to be THE