Around the Shire…
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From the Seneschal’s Corner
Unto the residents of the shire of Rusted Woodlands do I, Sapphira the Navigator, send greetings. My tenure as Seneschal is coming to a close, due to term limits, and I will be stepping down at the end of the year. So far the only gentle who has expressed interest in taking up the office
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September 2025 Fencing Update
September was an excellent month for Rusted Woodlands Fencing! We had three fantastic weekends at the Sparta Renaissance Festival with a great display of martial skill and pageantry! We are all grateful to the constituents of Rusted Woodlands who came out in support, as well as the fencers who came from our neighbors to the
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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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Announcement!
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Sparta Renaissance Faire
While the Sparta Renaissance Faire is not an SCA event, members of Rusted Woodlands who are willing to help out can sign up using this form.
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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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