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(Sorry for the delay getting this out! Bad chronicler! no cookie!)

Lord Nial opened meeting by reminding everyone to please remember thier 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.

EVENTS:

Sept. 8 and 9 Commoner's Crown in Bloomington IN

Sept 14-16 Harvest Day

Sept 22-- Coronation!

CORONATION:

There will be four sets of royalty at this event, in addition to the current and future King and Queen of the Middle, we will have the King and Queen of Aeldermere and the Prince and Princess of North Shield. Zuriel is Royal Liason and will likely need help, see her for details.

All the staff possitions need help!

Lady Alex is List mistress, the tournement will be a round robin with four lists running, since the President said no to cloning, she's going to need someone else to help her run these lists

Lady Celeste is the troll, give her money. Three dollars off if you pre-reg, and if you don't pre-reg she promisses to write very slowly on the day of the event to punish you! See Celeste or her deputy if you have questions

The menu for the feast is posted on the website
(http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/cleftlands/events/cfeast.html) one of the dishes is being taste tested tonight, have a bite and let the cooks know what you think.

Otherwise, there will be help needed in the kitchen, there will be a sign up sheet on the door the day of the event with time slots, someone is always needed to chop the 50 lb bag of onions that no feast would be complete without, come make friends and we'll let you play with sharp knives, fire and hot water. There will also be a kitchen sign up sheet at next meeting for those who plan ahead.

Marsaili is still looking for a deputy for children's activities during the day. Also she's looking for fighters to volunteer for the 'children's tourney' the kids will be making favors during the day, and then will each give thier favor to a fighter and cheer on thier fighter for the tourney. See Marsaili for details.

There will be a standard A&S competition at the event, Lyonnete is still looking for judges to help out. There will be a slight twist to the competition in that she will be checking Authorization cards on the entries, that's right it's combatants vs non-combatants... who shall have the best showing? There will be a small token prize for every entrant on the winning side.

Also there will be a fashion show... the fashion show will not require documentation and will be loosely judged. See Lyonnete or Karl von Kohn for details on the fashion show.
( http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/cleftlands/events/cans.html)

Bastian's still working on those cardboard walls to hide the mundane exercise equipment, they've been painted and this next thursday they're going back to cut and shape them, see Bastian for details and directions.

Do you have a household or personal banner? We want them for display at the event! see Darius or his deputies.

Also, carpeting is needed for the fencing list and side floor.

The Auction for the royal travel fund is in need of donations! Currently there are only three items! See Nial for details.

DEMOS:

BAYCRAFTERS! Is this weekend. Saturday, Sunday and Monday there will be classes, mini-classes and Demos. You need to be on the list to get in free, and once you are on the list, sign up on the big yellow sheet for when you think you'll be available.

Wulfgar and his lady are the King and Queen of the Faire this year (Go tease them)

There will be fully fencing and heavy weapons tourements with prizes, gift certificates to Muldoon's, starbucks, Friday's, etc. And there will be 'rocks' for the crowd to throw at the fighters during melee, aim for Conrad's head.

Marshall sticks are needed.

Marsaili is looking for volunteers to help with kids activities, storytellers, singers, dancers etc. Willing to volunteer a few minutes or a half hour to keep her sane and the kids happy.

SCA BUISNESS:

Some folks still owe money for the baronial auction. If you purchased the blossom honey mead or the chainmail, see Nial. The auction raised approximately $1037

There will be no armorer's guild meeting this thursday as all the guild equipment is going to baycrafters and will be there all weekend. If you need to work on armor, come to baycrafters!

There will be no archery practice sunday due to baycrafters, next sunday they will be shooting and start ranking, come out and shoot!

Celeste will be teaching Begining Middle Eastern Dance here at meeting after Coronation, probably starting the first week of october. Class is open to all, men are welcome, just no tight bodices, please. You've got to be able to move.

Snowden would like to hear from her fencers... do you want to keep meeting outside, or is it getting too dark for you?

James Barkley is interested in getting a group of drummers together to practice and learn at meeting, and perhaps provide live music for the dancers, see him if you're interested.

There are new people here! and people we've not seen for ages, take the time to stop and say hi, I know we're all busy but make them welcome.

Your dance guild mistress will be quite put out if there is no dancing after meeting. She'll be sitting over by the boom box over yonder and sulking ;)

NON SCA:

Jeannie is happy to announce that she's become engaged! Pennsic was good to her ;) But she's got to make this wedding gown now and is despirately hoping someone has a sewing machine which can do embroidery... if you have one, please see her.

A new face, Phil has a rapier for sale, it's a museum replica of india steel. See him for details if you're interested.

The newest member of house Blacksilver is here, everyone welcome Caroline born during the Pennsic War.

Monty's been working at the Museum of Natural History, and one of his coherts there is getting rid of a whole bunch of old steel cabinets. If you've use for cabinets or just the steel from them, see Monty.

James Barkley is moving and is getting rid of stuff, some books and a pretty lantern-thingy. See him if you're interested.

Lord Nial has a basket full of stuff free to a good home. Except the basket, the basket he's keeping.

Sara Rex still has some garb to get rid of, it's some nice stuff but she's outgrown it, please come have a look.

Another new face, Draven is newly arrived from Pittsburg was an active SCAdian there, hi!

The CWRU Medieval Society is back in session, they'll probably be meeting on Tuesday nights. More details as the semester draws on.

Ogre, who promises he'll make it to more meetings in the future, honest, would like to introduce some new friends, Devon and Angus (sorry for misspellings) they are part of a merchanting guild and Devon is an excellent seamstress. Send buisness thier way and they'll be very happy.

Here Opens the Court of His Grace, Duke Syr Laurelen Darksbane, Baron Cleftlands

It is one of the great Privilages of landed Barons and Baronesses that We may at times speak for the Crown, so now hear the words of Bardolph and Brigh, King and Queen of the Middle Kingdom.

(editors note: For the important differences between Privilages and Rights... see Laurelen speech number 53)

We call forward Eldred of Gwyntarian.

Eldred of Gwyntarian and now for many years of the Cleftlands, has served Us long and well in kitchens and even more importantly in teaching those culinary arts. Few are the feasts in this area without his touch, whether he was in the kitchen himself, directing, preparing that one special dish or merely provided the guidence which allowed that feast to be sucessful.

We have all been at feast that made us feel as if we really were in a great hall at a groaning board, full and content with fine foods, and for those of us who have been at feasts that were not so we are especially grateful and so do We, Bardolph King of the Middle Kingdom and Brigh Our Queen bestow upon Eldred of Gwyntarian our Order of the Evergreen to all rights and privillages of this rank from this day forward without let or hinderance.

All the crown can do is offer an impersonal gratitude, let us add to this our personal gratitude and the gratitude of all who have enjoyed your feasts.

For his Lordship Eldred, Hoobah!

(and a smiling Eldred remarked how wonderful it was to finally not be outranked by his wife ;)

His Grace then adressed the crowd and asked "Who here went to Pennsic this year? And how many of you attended your first Pennsic?" there was some ribbing from the crowd that we /all/ attended our first Pennsic, and the second, and the third.... eh hem. "Of those of you who attended your first Pennsic /this year/, what do you remember most?"

Brent remembered most becoming engaged atop Mount Aislin (can anyone beat that??)
Bastian remembered being told 'welcome home' on his arrival
(there were more remembrances, but it was dark and this chronicler writes slowly ;) appologies. if you do have special memories of past events, LET ME KNOW! Especially Cleftlands events... they flesh out a Chronicle so nicely you know)

His Grace continued:

Pennsic is not the most pagent filled event we do, Coronations and Crown Tournements certainly surpass it for pagentry and ritual, however there is no other time like this, it is Pennsic where on a misty moonlight night with the scent of woodsmoke as darkness falls that the fantasy goes away, where the figures in cloaks look just as we've always belived it must have been.

This is a gift we can give each other and it doesn't just have to be at Pennsic where sleep deprivation, you forgot to take off your armor and despite staying up all night you intend to go to one of the early morning classes because it's your one chance to learn from Master or Mistress so and so. Keep this spirit, as we head into the busy work and pagentry of Coronation remember that moment that the fantasy went away, when it became real. What you bring to the SCA is important, and what feels real in your heart even if we know that no one ever really wore a cloak like that. Remember that moment because when you go to your 25th Pennsic war you still have to answer the question: What did you remember?

that is all.

There being no further buisness, this closes the Court of His Grace.

And that is all for this week...

In service,
Milesent