Category: events
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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: 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:…
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Missives from Maestra: The Novice Day Edition (07/18/2025)
I do no regret canceling the Heraldry class of this past Monday, especially after hearing that two women had died on the road that night when their vehicle was borne away by the flash flooding that had been predicted. That said, following is a list of classes on offer for tomorrow’s Novice Day, with times…
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Missives from Maestra (07/11/2025) UPDATE (07/14/2025)
TONIGHT’S GATHERING HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE THUNDERSTORM AND FLOOD ADVISORY IN THE AREA! Greetings to the Shirefolk, At our previous gathering on Thursday 06/26, our Webminister Fenneke Jans came by to assist in tracing out patterns onto the cut fabric for the making of Her Majesty Indrakshi II’s favors for the upcoming Pennsic…
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Missives from Maestra (06/25/2025)
Greetings to the Shire, The last gathering on 06/09/2025 at the Lakeland Unitarian Universalist Fellowship hall saw our intrepid Seneschale Sapphira the Navigator help trace out patterns for the Queen’s favors and take some home with her. I have plenty more blank cuttings of fabric if anyone wishes to show up on Thursday 06/26 from…
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Missives from Maestra (06/04/2025)
Greetings to the Shire, Spring is giving way to summer, and plans for the Pennsic War grow apace. At the Arts & Sciences gathering on Thursday 05/22/2025, two yards of black fabric were cut into 40 pieces (though five may be discarded for edges that may be too rough and uneven) that would eventually become…
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Missives from Maestra 11/25/2024
Greetings, Shirefolk, We are all catching our collective breath now that the 100 Minutes War has come and gone. First I wish to thank those who participated in the Arts and Sciences display for their patience. I had deliberately made this a display and not a competition to take the pressure off the participants during…
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Missives from Maestra 9/15/2024
Greetings, Shirefolk, I hope those who went to Pennsic LI had a lovely time despite the rain and the humidity. Now that there has been time to recover from that annual pilgrimage, we can focus on new projects and arrange for new locations to have classes. Known World Cooks & Bards X over Labor Day Weekend…
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Fifth Monday Potluck: September 30th
There are 5 Mondays in September, so we will celebrate the occasion in our traditional pot-luck. Yeah, we (some of us) just spent 3 weekends doing a Demo at the Sparta Ren Faire, so now it’s time to kick back and enjoy each other’s company. Lakeland Unitarian society in Wayne. It’s at the corner of…