2020 Camporama
FCF Village Resident Application
The 2020 National Camporama is just around the corner and the FCF is making plans
to celebrate this grand event. The FCF will
participate in Camporama with the idea that we will be conducting a Rendezvous
within the Camporama. The FCF Village will take on the feel and functionality of
a frontier camp with all the color and excitement of a Rendezvous. The theme for
the Rendezvous and the FCF Village will be ‘Heroes of Faith’, with all
the residents, shelters, events, and demonstrations giving the feel of a pre-1840 rendezvous.
Residents
Each territory will have an opportunity to invite 65 FCF members from their respective
territories to camp in the FCF Village with the goal of having a FCF Village with at
least 500 campers. If you have an FCF member in your territory that will want to camp in
the FCF Village, they will need to complete the FCF Village Resident application (as well
as go through the normal Camporama registration process). Each village resident application
will need to be submitted online to the National FCF Staff by June 15, 2020. By filling out
the FCF Village Resident application, Camporama officials will know to assign an FCF Village
resident to the closest food pavilion. FCF Village residents will be required to be in an
FCF outfit or attire while in the FCF Village during daily operating hours (9:15am – 11:30am
and 1:30pm – 4:30 pm). FCF Village residents will be encouraged to volunteer some of their
time in helping with their respective territorial events and demonstrations. You are allowed
to have a trade blanket in front of your lodge as long as it is truly trading. There is to
be no exchange of money for items.
Shelters / Campsite
The theme of the Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship is to model the pre-1840 Rendezvous
era. Recreating the aura of the pre-1840 Rendezvous is often difficult as we rely
on modern camping conveniences when we set up the rendezvous camp. It will take some
time and money to accurately portray the ‘living history’ of the Rendezvous camp.
Tents in the primitive camp must have started life as white or tan canvas. No army
green, blue, or any other color of the rainbow in the primitive area. Lodge poles must
be wood, and stakes should be wood or iron. No plastic or aluminum. No nylon ropes or
plastic/metal line tighteners. If you have modern camping or personal items inside
your lodge and someone can see it, keep the door closed, no matter how hot it might
be. Use wooden boxes, burlap or canvas bags, and blankets to cover modern items such
as food coolers, water containers, and propane stoves.
Modern camp lighting proves to be one large eyesore during rendezvous gatherings.
Candle lanterns and oil lamps are appropriate. Propane and electric lights are not
authentic to the rendezvous era. You can tell at a glance when they are in use inside
a lodge. Remember, if someone else can see it, hear it, or smell it, and it is modern,
it has to go or must be hidden.