The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) was introduced to troops by a member while he served in Afghanistan via rapier practice sessions during off-duty hours. Tymothe Rankyn of Cathanar (Sgt Eric Rankin, USMC) detailed the results in a letter to his home shire. At the end of the letter, he put out a call for […]
Oregon’s Faire in the Grove is this weekend in Forest Grove. SCA and Pacific University’s History Department re-create a medieval village for three days of fun.
Maine The Fort Knox Medieval Village in Prospect provides demonstrations of medieval combat, arts, and sciences. Admission to the event is included in the historic site’s ticket price.
Italian streams from his lips as he makes dinner plans with Giacomo and, for a moment, you wonder if you’ve been transported to one of the European festivals. Finished, he returns to your conversation, laughing easily as he turns the crab hat, a talisman against rain, repeatedly in his hands. Never still, he seems always to be scanning his surroundings for something to play with and you wonder how long it will be before he reaches in to a pouch and pulls out enough objects to form a pattern. Let me introduce you to Paolo Garbanzo. […]
I’m guessing that some of my readers are also Society of Creative Anachrosnism (SCA) members. I just came across a reminder that the gates will open to Gulf Wars at 8:00am on March 9th. For those of you unfamiliar with the Gulf War, it was explained thus on the GulfWars.org site: Attendance is currently around […]
