East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Originally started in the Middle Kingdom as The Bead Rescue Project, this activity aims to educated the populace about period glass beads throughout history. Beads are “hidden” at an event, waiting for some lucky person to find them and take them home. If you find a bead, it is yours to keep! However, we encourage …
On August 31st, Carolingia invites all comers to sack the barony by trying to win the prizes from numerous tourneys. In celebration of the one year anniversary of Baron Fergus and Baroness Imigla, Baronial Champions will be chosen for archery, arts & sciences, fencing, heavy list, performance and thrown weapons. All competitors are welcome regardless …
And so it was, on the 5th of July, A.S. 48, that Gregor, mighty King of the East and Kiena his fierce Queen did ride north to the War Camp formed in Glenn Linn to oversee the preparation of the East Kingdom’s Cavalry for the upcoming summer campaigns.
This Pennsic the Kingdom of Calontir participated for the first time in the Rapier champions with fighters who were authorized by Calontir in the form known as Cut and Thrust. For three years, the Kingdom of Calontir has been using Cut and Thrust activities on an experimental basis. On July 13 of this year, Their …
Having journeyed far, and safely arrived at the Great Pennsic War in the lands of Their Cousins called Aethelmearc, The King and Queen of the East, Gregor and Keina, came to the battles of Their Champions on Sunday July 28, Her Majesty placed, with care, the tabards reserved for these Champions upon their shoulders and …
The Shire of Anglespur invites one and all to our annual Hunter’s Moon on Labor Day weekend. This year, among our many traditional activities such as A&S classes featuring pewter casting and beadmaking, archey, and fencing tournaments, we are proud to feature two new activities. First, we are hosting a fighters’ symposium with classes taught …
Here is the map of Events in the East Kingdom for August. Please remember you can always easily access our maps directly from our dedicated Maps of Events page. Happy travels! August 2013 [googlemaps https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=214729906434197199323.0004e2d703d08ed438bb5&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=43.389082,-70.224609&spn=11.175384,18.676758&z=5&output=embed&w=425&h=350]
Teams of 40 champions (and 4 alternates) each for the East and for the Midrealm took the field today for the Pennsic Archery Champions’ Tournament, and the Eastern team won the war point! Before the start of the tournament, King Gregor and Queen Kiena addressed the archers and wished them well, then convened a short …
As of 9:48pm Tuesday, the on-site attendance at Pennsic was 5028! Land agents began checking-in on Friday, July 19. Saturday morning at 9am thousands of attendees once again began flooding into Cooper’s Lake Campground in Butler, PA for the 42nd Annual Pennsic War. By 8:30am on Sunday, the official Pennsic Twitter account was reporting that …
Reported from the fields of Pennsic (updated by Martyn de Halliwell) “You can go from I-79 N to 422. It’s only the 422 to I-79 N ramp that’s blocked, everything else works. To get to Rt 80, take 19N, do not follow the detour exactly, it tries to put you back on 79N before 80. …