East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Brennan & Caoilfhionn, Princeps & Principissa Orientalis, will hold meetings with the Orders on the schedule below. Order meetings will be in the East Kingdom battlefield pavilion. Attendees are invited to bring a chair, as there is very limited seating. Thank you! Sunday August 2nd 5-5:30 PM Maunche 5:30-6 PM Laurel 6:30-7 PM Silver Crescent …
Two of the first members of the Barony of Carolingia, Tabitha of Windmoor and Wescott de Gwhite, shared their memories of with the Gazette of the first weapons created in Carolingia using nothing but rumors of what was required. Tabitha of Windmoor : Swords have a story all their own. Dan (Daniel de Tankard) had …
The following information has been forwarded to the East Kingdom by Baron Sir Jibril al-Dakhil, Earl Marshal of the East Kingdom, on behalf of the Society Seneschal. Greetings Unto the East Kingdom: Below is the Society’s Guidelines A.J. Pongratz Society Seneschal Vice President of Operations, SCA Inc. In reviewing the official website of the Pennsylvania …
Greetings unto the East Kingdom, Pennsylvania Child Protective Act After a productive conference call with the Society Seneschal and the Society Earl Marshal I am confident that we will have written guidance in the next few days, for dissemination, that will allow for full participation by the East Kingdom in Pennsylvania in all activities under …
Greetings, and welcome to the East Kingdom Gazette’s new feature: A&S Research Papers! Our first article comes to us from Mistress Amy Webbe, of the Shire of Barren Sands, who is presenting her article on monochromatic embroidery. The paper was presented initially to the East Kingdom Embroiderer’s Guild, the Keepers of Athena’s Thimble. Thank you, Mistress …
Greetings to the Families of the East Kingdom, Due to the child protection laws going into effect in Pennsylvania on July 1st, all formal youth activities in the state of PA must cease until the SCA makes a definitive ruling on how this law effects our youth activities. Family activities with parental supervision may still …
Greetings Unto the East Kingdom, Youth Play and Combat If the youths are old enough to be in any of the youth divisions and are conducting sword fighting at an SCA event – a cornerstone of which is sword fighting – then it needs to comply with the requirements of youth combat regardless of whether …
Greetings Unto the East Kingdom, Pennsylvania Child Protective Act One of the first things I heard about upon taking this position in January 2015 was the change in Pennsylvania law. I was informed we would get guidance from the BoD. That has not happened to date. In the event that legal guidance is not provided …
Our thanks to the AEthelmearc Gazette for this article: The first King and Queen of the new Kingdom of Avacal were crowned on Saturday, June 27th, A.S. L, in the Shire of Bitter End (located in central Alberta, Canada). The SCA’s newest Kingdom is comprised of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon …
This is a recurring series by Mistress Alys Mackyntoich on whether certain names currently can be documented to period based on existing evidence. There are a lot of names that people think are medieval, but actually aren’t, and others which people think are modern, but in fact are found in the SCA’s period. If you would …