Category: meetings
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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:…
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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 (05/20/2025)
Greetings to the Shire, Ethereal tag had been played in the days leading up to the last A&S gathering on 05/12/2025. So I wish to extend both apologies and thanks to the noble lady Lillian Hutchinson for braving the highways between Settmour Swamp and this Shire last Monday 05/12 to come speak on the Evolution…
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Missives from Maestra (5/04/2025)
Greetings to the Shire, It had been a while since my last post. I offer apologies because at about the time we were wrapping up the last Arts & Sciences gathering, I was in the process of interviewing for, and eventually accepting an offer of, gainful mundane employment. The April gathering, during the week when…
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Missives from Maestra (03/12/2025)
Greetings to the Shire, The noble Valentine Ambrose of our Shire displayed the paper on the proper feeding of mushrooms to pigs, along with the wood-burned image of the proper care of said pigs, first seen at 100 Minutes’ War last November, at the East Kingdom Arts & Sciences Champions event. Midland Vale’s own Ana…