Author: Ana de Guzman
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Missives from Maestra: The Last Arts & Sciences Gathering of the Mundane Year (Or Tempting the Weather Yet Again) on 12/08/2025
Greetings, everyone, I wish to take this time to thank Magistra Alys Mackyntoich for coming to 100 Minutes War to provider heraldry consultation. We had to improvise with the space available, but several gentles were able to make use of the services provided. We then decided to tempt fate, rolling the weather dice for a…
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Missives from Maestra: The 100 Minutes War Word-Fame Post
Greetings to the Shire, I am astonished and grateful for the attendance and participation of the six gentles who brought their artwork to display at this year’s 100 Minutes War. In recent years the displays averaged between three and five, so six was a pleasant surprise, and made for a bit of a challenge as…
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Missives from Maestra: Open Project Day on 11/10/2025
Greetings to the Shire, Great storms have come and gone to our south, and the winds of the coming winter begin to blow from the north. We’ll only be meeting once at the Lakeland Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Wayne this month, on 11/10/2025, because the fourth Thursday will be Thanksgiving. This will be an open…
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Missives from Maestra: The Last 4th Thursday of the Year, and a New Deputy (10/22/2025)
Greetings, Shirefolk, The 2nd Monday had been cancelled because of a Nor’Easter that brought rain to the area and a wicked migraine to Magistra Alys Mackyntoich. The cancelled heraldry class will be taught some time in the coming year. The last 4th Thursday for this year will be tomorrow, since next month’s will be Thanksgiving,…
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Twice is Definitely a Coincidence: Basic Heraldry Class is Cancelled due to Weather (10/13/2025)
The inclement weather brought by the Nor’easter gave Magistra Alys Mackyntoich a migraine. Also, because the Wayne area is prone to ponding and flooding when there is more than average rainfall, the Basic Heraldry class is postponed to a later date to be determined, and the gathering is not to be had this evening, but…
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Missives from Maestra: Twice is a Coincidence (watch this page for weather updates) (10/12/2025)
The second Monday in July, a flash flood warning was issued and so the gathering that was to host Magistra Alys Mackyntoich to talk about Basic Heraldry was postponed, and was supposed to be for tomorrow 10/13/2025. Now we have a Nor’easter bearing down on our Shire. We have gotten some rain already, and it…
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Missives from Maestra (09/21/2025)
Greetings to the Shire — The brief talk about the chronological first Thanksgiving on these shores was attended by Ceara MacKiernan, Eileen Flynn, and Sapphira the Navigator. If you’re interested in reading the short paper about it, check out this link here. These gentles also brought their respective projects that they’re working on. This coming…
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Missives from Maestra: Welcome Back from Pennsic, and Happy 460th First Thanksgiving Anniversary (09/06/2025)
To the gentles of the Shire, greetings, Now that some of us have recovered from Pennsic (and some of us have recovered from going to a wedding and coming back with an uninvited wedding guest, a watered-down version of our modern plague), we are once again holding Arts & Sciences gatherings: Monday 09/08/2025 from 7:00…
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Missives from Maestra (08/20/2025)
I am hoping that those who went to Pennsic LII had a lovely time, and did not bring back the current sneezing and coughing plague that has been dogging good gentles for the last five years and change, or if it was inevitable, that it was an easy course swiftly run. Because people need time…
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Missives from Maestra: The Novice Day Acknowledgements (07/27/2025)
Many will be at Pennsic in the Debatable Lands of AEthelmearc during Peace Week at this posting, but I hope those whom I mention will be told that they are being acknowledged. There were five entries in the third Magistra Isabeau d’Orleans Novice Day Arts & Sciences Memorial Prize display. Each of these deserve mention:…