Category: events
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Missives from Maestra: Novice Day Pennon-Making Thursday (05/28/2026)
Novice Day comes apace. Our shire’s pennons need refurbishing/replacing. The honorable and esteemed Master Antonio Patrasso will come to us from our fair neighbor to the south on Thursday May 28, 2026 to show us how to make said pennons. He will be bringing the supplies. That said, he would like to know how many…
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Missives from Maestra: Monday Meeting 05/11/2026 and Novice Day Form Notice
Greetings, Shirefolk, The Sixty-first year of the Society has been celebrated. Now that the weather is (mostly) milder, thoughts turn to preparations for those going to Pennsic, or the respective regional warcamps, and other such events martial and otherwise. Where “otherwise” is concerned, East Kingdom Novice Day comes apace on July 18, 2026. Having learned…
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Fencing October & November Update
First and foremost, we would like to recognize Lord Sunshine for his elevation to Order of the Silver Rapier and Sir Tanaka who received the Award of Benzaiten at this last 100 Minutes War. We also formally recognize Serilda die Stollen as the cadet of Ellynor Redpath, which was announced on the fencing fields of…
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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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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…