Archive : Minutes : 6-13-01 Minutes

EVENTS:

Battle of Brian's Brew in Indiana
A demo in Illinois
Fenix event

and just 51 days until Pennsic! :)

SCA Buisness:

Thank you to all the staff of Northern Oaken War Maneuvers! Hoobah for a sucessful event!

Garvin would like to thank the Troll and everyone who volunteered

Pietro extended his personal thanks to Olafr for providing announcements during the day and heralding his first court!

Our mistress of waterbearers would like to thank all the fighters for drinking lots of water! We had no heat injuries (well, for the fighters anyway... our autocrat managed to avoid water a bit too much, tsk!) Thanks to all the waterbearers as well, including Shannon's teenaged daughter Brittany who helped out the whole day!

Ceinwen thanks everyone who helped her with gold key for the day

There were 20 merchants! whew! The merchant co-ordinator would like to thank Kathy for her help organizing merchants.

Gunther would like to thank everyone who helped him with security, in particular Rowan, Brittany, Bastian, Garvin... etc.

We had over 475 gentles in attendance, no exact count yet, and Crispin has lost and found from the event

Giles FitzAlbert won the Fellowship of the Oaken Blade raffle (and the novice tourney! good day for him!) we raised $350 for regalia for the companions of the Bronze ring, thanks everyone who bought tickets!

Archery went well at the event and we have a new Northern Oaken champion

The hofla went well, lightly attended, but everyone had a good time, there was great music and great dancing and it's been the talk of the Middle Eastern Mailing list.

Thank you to everyone who taught a class at the event, teaching is one of the most important things we do in this society!

Thank you to the kitchen staff, servers and clean up crew

Thanks to everyone who helped out at troll, especially Kathy, and to Celeste and Guenhwyfar for doing an excellent job at pre-registration.

Other Buisness:

At Pennsic this year we will be having another fund raising auction, see Nial if you're interested in helping out or donating items for the auction.

Also, we will have a Cleftlands pavillion on the battlefield, anyone wishing to donate an hour or so to watch the pavillion please see Nial.

This saturday Sir Alaric's arranging a carpool down to work on the fort! woo! Nial's doing a carpool as well. Construction opens 9am and any group that donates 100 hours can have thier device painted on the fort, let's go Cleftlands!

There will be a scribes guild meeting this tuesday the 19th here in the Shore Center, Milesent's figure drawing class has been cancelled, it'll be re-scheduled hopefull for July's meeting.

Kathryn still has lost and found from Standard bearers! If you're wondering where something is, check with her!

Do you have a Registered Name or Device? Do you want to? Be warned, at this next desert revel there will be a heraldic round up! Pietro's bringing his books and his pen, we'll see what we can do.

Armorer's guild is meeting thursday, same time, same place, Valorian's House, see Timothy or Valorian for details.

Anyone interested in serving in general, please see Lyonnete after meeting

Lady Alex is /almost/ done with her newcomers pamphlet except for a few guild write ups, grrrr! She knows who you are! give her stuff!

Marsaili is looking for coffee cans with lids, oatmeal cans with lids, etc (all those great cardboard drums of our youth) for a future childrens activity.

Brewers, there will be brewing next week, see Nial

Archery guild is meeting tuesday with the scribes here at the Shore Center

Karl's brought his Arts and Sciences sign up sheet, please write down what you've been up to!

Don't forget your Tithe! We do pay for this space, we ask $1 from everyone, $2 from combatants. If this is your first or second meeting, please be our guests.

DEMOS:

June 22nd at Lagoon Reservation (south of Rocky River reservation) cub scouts demo for Joe Wolfe

July 11, 13 or 14 more cub scouts at Mastik park (in the Rocky River reservation)

July 16-20th, two separate cub scout troups looking for demos

and BAYCRAFTERS! Labor day weekend, we're going to have interactive classes for the public, a full heavy weapons and rapier tournement with prizes as well as our usual display. It will be advertized in the Pale, see Darius, Sarra Bosard, Sarah Rex or Lady Alex if you can help out.

Non SCA:

Have problems with Poison Oak? Poison Ivy? Poison Easterners? Lady Aurora's found a great lotion for all sorts of nasty itches, see her if you're interested and she'll give you the info. (not sure how it works on easterners yet, she'll test in August)

The Great Lakes Medieval Faire is coming up again, fans of Owen Fife and the Rennaisance band know that they will be there for two weekends this year, July 7th and July 14th, Hawise has flyers for those interested

Ulrich has a beautiful dagger for sale, see him if you'd like a look

Lord I forgot to write down his name (I beileve Crispin made the announcement) has a 2000 Crown Victoria for sale with only 3,000 miles on it! great condition, great price. See him if you're interested.

The Hathaway Brown Arts Fair is this weekend, they've got a lot of great artists some of which do period crafts, well worth the time to see.

And Here opens the Court of His Grace, Duke Syr Laurelen Darksbane, Baron Cleftlands:

And magically light poured forth from the heavens and His Grace felt the need to mention his first coronation at which a more spectacular timing of light occured... but no one was there... and Gladius piped up that /he/ was. But that story is for another time...

In the middle kingdom landed Barons and Baronesses have the privilage to exercise rights, elsewhere they have the right to exercise privilages. There is a difference and it's important, think about it. But one of those privilages is to speak for the crown.

His Grace called forward Gladius the Alchemist. King Bardolph asked him to present to Gladius a baldric for winning the title of Northern Oaken archery champion with well spoken words. Lord Gladius unfolded a few long sheets of paper and said he had prepared a speech for the occaison... "The competition was stiff and I was lucky" a smile and he folded the paper up again and accepted the baldric graciously.

Now Laurelen informed us that he was speaking for the crown, so with his voice, hear that of our soveriegns Bardolph and Brigh.

His Grace called forward Caitlyn of the Cleftlands and presented her with an Award of Arms for her service waterbearing. Simply put, waterbearers save lives. An Award of arms is not just a piece of paper, it is the recognition of status already achieved, of service. The fighter who needs water really needs it, this is not imagined or dreamed, this is real service.

Caitlyn was dismissed and His Grace took the opportunity to expound upon this theme,

Cleftlands is a large and active barony with an impressive group of fighters and as we get ready for war, start new projects or perhaps work on the ones we started for last year's war, or the war before that, or Pennsic War 18... if you have no interest in the arts martial, have never witnessed a battle or have no desire to be around arms and armour still take the time to watch one battle. In particular the field battle. Witness the moment of two large armies colliding. You will see fantasy at its hieght, the fighters have a good time and afterward relax with thier prefered beverage be it single malt scotch or coca-cola, they have stories to tell of that moment that the fantasy goes away. They really are soldiers on the line. You will see the best and worst of chivralic behavior in the battle, do not look lightly on the fallen.

The reason this subject has come up is that I've been asked recently is not this a glorification of war and killing? It is not. Remember the SCA was born in the 1960s, in the heart of the 1960s San Fransisco. We call what we glorify 'the dream'. It's not a dream, we're real. The fighter laying on the ground dehydrated feels real pain and weariness and when he is carried off the field that is real service, not a dream. We are not re-creating killing and warfare, we recreate tournement melees as they were done in the fifteenth century... well, we are a bit safer than they were but even they were not trying to kill each other. If someone asks you this same question, what are we glorifying, think about your answer. It doesn't take a calvary charge to make the ground shake. Watch the field battle, feel the ground shake from the pounding of human feet, hear the sound of two armies colliding. There are men and woman on that field as terrified as if they were really going into battle instead of a tournement. It is our duty, as commanders, to make certain that terror goes away, that they believe confidentaly and happily that they will come out of the battle whole, unscathed with stories to tell.

That is all.

Here closes the Court of His Grace

And that is all for this week...

In service,
Milesent