East Kingdom Gazette

Champions Battles fought at Pennsic 42

July 28, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

Starting at 10 am this morning, the Pennsic Battlefield saw the annual Champions battles fought.

The first battle scheduled was the Allied Champions battle, in which all Kingdoms attending Pennsic, except the East and the Middle, selected 80 fighters per side to fight a 1 hour resurrection battle. Sir Tanaka Raiko, reporting for the Gazette, has let us know that in “the allied champions battle…our side is dominating.” More information about the Allied Champons battle is available online here from the Pennsic Independent. (more…)

What the Heck Does That Medallion Mean, Anyway?

July 26, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

Our intrepid reporters on-scene at the Pennsic War went to Information Point to gather more info on this year’s Pennsic medallion. According to the staff at Information point, the image on the medallion is a bowl of petunias, which along with the phrase, “Don’t Panic”, refer to the book, The Restaurant at the End of …

Keep Calm and Pennsic On…

July 26, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

This year’s Pennsic medallion has an important message on it, reminding everyone to enjoy their war: Image provided by Decimus Aurelius

Penn Market opens in ‘Old’ Barn At Pennsic

July 24, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

In a year of many changes at Pennsic, one of the biggest changes is the transformation of the ‘old barn’ — a space which has for decades hosted courts, dancing, and other large events at Pennsic, into an expanded market, bringing more access to fresh, local foods to Pennsic attendees without needing to leave the …

Pennsic Already Exceeds 5000

July 24, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

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 …

Call for Applications – Office of Society Rapier Marshal

July 22, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

The Office of Society Rapier Marshal, a deputy to the Society Earl Marshal, is open for applications. Please send resumes (modern, SCA and rapier) to the the Society Earl Marshal at marshal@sca.org. The deadline for resumes is September 1, 2013. Warmest thanks go to the outgoing Society Rapier Marshal, Baroness Eyrny, for her service to …

Lord AEthelstan St. Maur, East Kingdom Youth Clerk, Explains New Kingdom Officer Position

July 22, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

Greetings unto the Populace of the East Kingdom,

A few months ago, the office of the East Kingdom Youth Clerk was created under the office of the Chancellor Minor to help handle the modern administrative burden of managing the Kingdom’s extensive youth officer background checks.

The duties of the Youth Clerk are to:
– Serve as the primary contact for all East Kingdom background check submissions, processing, and tracking.
– Maintain the rosters for all Kingdom youth programs (e.g. Branch and Youth Officers at Large, Youth Combat Marshals, and Youth Rapier Marshals).

The Youth Clerk does not make warranting, training or program decisions other than to advise rostered individuals and program coordinators of warrant status. Individual youth programs remain under the full control of the various Kingdom officers entrusted with those programs.

The creation of this new Kingdom position has already helped to reduce some duplicate workload of the SCA paid staff, improved the speed and efficiency of the background check submission process, and in many ways reduced the frustration of the various program officers and SCA members who have had to endure what was at times an unintentionally confusing and inconsistent process. Kingdom officers in charge of the various youth programs are now free to better concentrate on quality programming.

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UPDATED! Traffic Detour to Pennsic

July 22, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

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. …

East Kingdom Teen Party Entertains Pennsic Youth for a Decade

July 19, 2013 by East Kingdom Gazette

Continuing with our Pennsic Theme, Baroness Leonete D’Angely tells us a little bit about the East Kingdom Teen Party and how it began:

It was April 2003, and Leonete D’Angely, then 16 and known as Nicola Angelini, was the only person under the age of 25 at the Speckled Trout Inn, an event in Northern Vermont. Chancellor Minor, Ardenia aRuadh was there as well, and they started talking about the lack of activities for teenagers in the SCA, specifically at Pennsic.

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Stonemarche Has Heirs!

July 19, 2013 by ekgazette

Their Majesties announced today that Maestro Dorio of the Oaks and Lady Jocelyn del Espada have been chosen as the next Baron and Baroness of Stonemarche.