Activity Archive
Events:
Midsummer Merriment, July 15 - 16, 2006 (Now with a menu!)
Pumpkinfest Demonstration, October 1 - 2, 2005.
St. Aetheldrea's Fair, October 23, 2004.
Sir Gowain and the Green Knight, June 7, 2003.
Celtic Festival, On June 29 - July 1, 2001.
Post Pennsic Tournament, September 9, 2000 (?)
Business Meeting Schedule:
(all meetings start with business and then go on to the following topics)
January 2001
18 - Introduction to the SCA
25 - Easy to Make Garb
February 2001
1 - Going to Your First Event
3 - College of Three Ravens (Thescorre)
8 - Identifying Royalty and Peers
10 - Feast of the Seven Deadly Sins/Baronial Investiture (Delftwood)
15 - After Your First Event: Questions and Answers
22 - Developing a Persona: Part I
March 2001
1 - The Dream: Why are we in the SCA? A discussion.
8 - Persona workshop: Part II
15 - Needle Arts in the SCA
22 - Fighting: A Spectator Sport
April 2001
5 - Identifying Royalty and Peers
7 - A Concoction of Cooks/Queen's Rapier Champs (Myrkfaelinn)
June
28 - Work party for event at event site. See Celtic Festival page for directions.
July 2001
17 - 21 - Cortland County Junior Fair
18 - Summer Band Concert on the Homer Village Green, 7 pm
19 - Business
20-22 - St. Swithin's Bog Annual 3-Day Event (St. Swithin's Bog)
21 - Holiday in Homer, 10 am to 5 pm on the Homer Village Green
25 - Summer Band Concert on the Homer Village Green, 7 pm
26 - Business - CANCELLED
August 2001
2 - Business
9 - Business
16 - Business
15 - Summer Band Concert on the Homer Village Green, 7 pm
3 - 19 - Pensic War
22 - Summer Band Concert on the Homer Village Green, 7 pm
30 - Business - Sharing stories and handouts from Pennsic War
September 2001
6 - Business and "Basic Fingerloop Braiding"
13 - Business and "Introduction to the SCA" or "Hats and Titles"
14 - 16 - Coronation
20 - Business and "SCA Folklore: Sharing, discussing, and collecting"
27 - Bussiness and "Finding Your Name"
28 - 30 - Harvest Raid
October 2001
4 - Business
11 - Business
13 - Serf-N-Turf III
13 - Pumpkinfest in Cortland
18 - Business
19 - 21 - Crown Tourney
25 - Business
November 2001
1 - Business & ?
8 - Business & ?
10 - Schola (Sterlynge Vayle)
15 - Business & ?
17 - High Times in the Low Countries (Myrkfaelinn)
22 - Thanksgiving... no meeting
29 - Business & ?
February 2002
2 - College of Three Ravens (Thescorre)
7 -
9 - Feast of the Seven Deadly Sins (Delftwood)
14 -
21 -
28 -
March 2002
7 - 2nd 10-gore class. (We will be cutting out fabric and starting to sew. Participants will need their pattern, fabric, thread and scissors.)
14 - The Dream: What does the SCA mean to you?
21 - last 10-gore class! (finishing sewing, putting in sleeves.Participants need their dress parts, sleeve fabric, scissors and thread.)
28 - Drop Spindle Spinning
April 2002
4 - Fingerloop Braiding: A period method for making cords and ties for garb.
11 - Hose: Learn how to make a hose pattern for the 12th- early 15th century persona.
18 - SCA Folklore
25 - Sewing Circle and Costuming Question and Answer
May 2002
9 - Event Planning and Recruitment Poster Brainstorming
11 - Aethelmearc Crown Tourney
16 - Designing posters and handouts... then discussion of rank and titles in the SCA.
23 - Intro to Fighting: Tentative... check back for schedule changes.
24 - 26 - Axes and Ales IV
30 - Finally Finishing the 10 Gore Dress
June 2002
4 - Dairy Parade in Cortland: Come in garb and meet at Dyane's place at 6 PM
6 - Something to do with food
13 - Arrow Making: there will be a fee for materials
14 - 16 - XXth Myrkfaelinn Summer War Practice (Ithaca, NY)
20 - Spinning and Fiber
27 - Event Planning
July 2002
4 - NO MEETING!! Have a good holiday!
11 - 13th to 14th century hose
18 - POLICY DISCUSSION AND DEBATE, Arrow Making?
25 - Dry Torches
August 2002
1 - Arthurian legends
8 -
15 -
22 - POLICY VOTE, Hands on Embroidery
29 -
September 2002
5 -
12 - Arthurian Legends
19 -
26 - Hands On Spinning: Carding and Drop Spinning
October 2002
3 - Arthurian legends
6 - Pumpkinfest Demo
10 - Making T-tunics
17 - Hands on Embroidery
24 - Chainmail
31 - Meeting Cancelled
November 2002
7 - How to plan a feast
14 - POLICY VOTE - Persona workshop
21 - Period Headware
28 - Meeting Cancelled
December 2002
5 - "Your High... ur... Your Mag... ur... Your Grace!": Hats and Titles
12 - Cotehardie/kirtle patterns and chat
19 - Heraldry
26 cancel
January 2003
2 - Holiday Party and whatever
9 - Cotehardie/kirtle assembly
16 - Armor
23 - Armor
30 - Medieval Music
February 2003
6 - Feast Food
13 - Sideless Surcotes
20 - Footwear
27 - How to Sharpen Anything 101 (Anything that was meant to be sharpened, that is.)
June 2004
3 - Period Games
10 - Footware
17 - Banner project (the planning)
24 - Banner project (the doing)
July 2004
1 - Feast Planning
8 - Policy Review
15 - Literature
22 - Armour (with an eye toward the feminine)
29 - Masks
July 2004
1 - Feast Planning
8 - Policy Review
15 - Literature
22 - Armour (with an eye toward the feminine)
29 - Event Review (Masks to be done at a later date)
August 2004
5 - Pennsic & Camping (showing of Pennic Videos)
12- Hats & Headwear
19 - "Not going to Pennsic, so there" Party
(To be held at different location, contact Knight's Marshall for directions)
26 - Games &... well... Games
December 2004
16 - Project Workshop
23 - Project Workshop
30 - Project Workshop
January 2005
6 - Annual Holiday Party: Location TBD
20 - Embroidery Overview
27 - Card Weaving
February is Sweets and Treats Month
3 - Spices, Coloring, and Sugar (everyone is invited to help teach)
10 - Gingerbread
17 - Potluck dinner at the PC Zone. Bring your recipe and we can put together a small cookbook
24 - Candied nuts from last year's Feast of the Seven Deadly Sins feast
March
3 - Weaving with a four harness loom
10 - Knitting
17 - A history of St. Patrick
24 - Stitch and Bitch (project day) at the PC Zone
31 - Mead Practical III: The Results
April 2005
7 - Medieval Gardening
14 - Planning for the shire tabards and favors
21 - Tabard and Favor making part 1
28 - Tabard and Favor making part 2
May 2005
5 - Dry Torches
12 - Knitting
19 - Garb Workshop 105
26 - Garb Workshop 205
June 2005
2 - TBA
April 2006
April 6 - Hats and Title Recognition
April 13 - Garb & Chainmail ( Meeting at Eric's Parents house address to be sent to mailing list)
April 20 - Arrow Making
April 27 Copper Etching
May 2006
May 4 - Period Pasttimes outdoor games etc.
May 6 - A Shoote in the Wildewood (Delftwood)
May 11 - SCA Policy
May 18 - Medieval Gardens
May 25 - Olde English
June 2006
June 1 - Favors
June 9 - 10 - Barony Wars (Sterlynge Vayle)
June 16 - 18 - Jugglers, Tumblers, and Bards III (Coppertree)
June 23 - 25- A Day in the Wildewood (Myrkfaelinn)
June 29 - Children's Garb (documentation, construction, and other concerns) - Diane
July 2006
July 6 - Copper Etching - Grant
July 13 - Event preparation
July 15 - Midsummer Merriment (Courtlandtslot!!!)
July 20 - Advanced Chainmail - Scott
July 27 - Garb roundtable and workshop
August 2006
August 3 - BBQ at Grant's place
August 10 - first week of Pennsic, no activity planned yet
August 17 - Annual Pennsic Pity Party at Scott's house
August 4 - 20 - Pennsic 35
31 - Business (event stuff?)
September 2006
1 through 3 - Event: Bards and Bows (Sterlynge Vale)
7 - Shire Cookbook (bring recipie copies and any notes/ideas about assembly/categorization)
14 - Advanced Fingerloop (Donna learned some cool stuff at Pennsic)
16 - Event: Coronation
21 - Dancing (Group effort - will hopefully have an instructional DVD done by then)
23 - Event: Delftwood Champions (Delftwood)
28 - more work on the cookbook
October 2006
5 - Garb Q&A (Diane - if you let me know questions in advanced I can make sure to bring specific information/notes)
12 - Advanced Chainmail Techniques (Scott)
14 - Event: Crown Tourney (St. Swithin's Bog)
21 - Event: Tuscany in Autumn (Myrkfaelinn)
November 2 - Event Prep at Event Site
November 9 - Event Debriefing
November 16 - Middle/Old English (Bernadette)
November 23 - Meeting Cancelled (Thanksgiving)
November 30 - More Advanced Chainmail? (Scott)
December 7 - Autumn talks about something... any requests?
December 14 - Celtic Story Time (Amergin)
December 21 - Cancelled for holidays
December 28 - Cancelled for holidays
January 4 - Annual Holiday Party (location TBD)
January 11 - Planning meeting (classes, events, masonic demo stuff, June picnic)
March 2007
March 1 - Titles and Regalia
March 8 - Dancing and Emergency Elections
March 15 - How to Make Coifs
March 17 - Ice Dragon (Barony of the Rhydderich Hael)
March 22 - Old English
March 29 -
April 2007
April 5 - No Meeting
April 12 - Food Thing (Segeine)
April 14 - Spring Coronation ( Incipient Shire of Riversedge)
April 19 -
April 26 -
May 2007
May 3 -
May 4 through 6 - Spring Crown Tournament ( Sterlynge Vayle)
May 10 -
May 17 -
May 24 - Fiber Arts Project: Planning Decisions
May 31 - Fiber Arts Project: Material Lists and Timeline Decisions
June 2007
June 5 - Dairy Parade (6 pm assembly)
June 7 - New Member Welcoming Party
June 9 - Second Annual Barony Wars and Bazaar ( Sterlynge Vayle)
June 14 - Fiber Arts Project: Material Lists and Timeline Decisions
June 15 through 17 - Myrkfaelinn Summer War Practice (Myrkfaelinn)
June 21 - Movie Appreciation Night: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
June 28 - Event Prep
July 2007
July 5 - Event Prep
July 7 -Cancelled: Midsummer Merriment II (Courtlandtslot), Fiber Arts Project: Making Color Laboratory Exercise
July 12 - Dry Torches
July 19 - Policy Review, Chatelaine Election
July 21 - Children's Event (Barony of Delftwood)
July 26 - Fiber Arts Project: Skirting, Picking, and Washing the Fleece
August 2007
August 2 - Fiber Arts Project: Carding and Combing
August 9 - Cortlandtslot Annual Pennsic Pity Party (location TBD)
August 16 -
August 23 - Finger Loop Braiding
August 30 - Fiber Arts Project: picking and washing wool at Segine's
September 2007
September 6 - Library Sciences: Excitement! Bring any cool research books you want to share. You'll never be the same!
September 13 - Shire Cookbook: Hashing out the format, assembling more recopies
September 20 - Fiber Arts Project: Combing and carding.
September 27 - Garb Talk and Workshop
October 2007
October 4 - Cooking Tings: We'll, um, clarify that... later
October 11 - Fiber Arts Project: Spinning practicum.
October 14 - Fiber Arts Project: Dyeing
October 18 - Dry Torches
October 25 - Event Prep: Fall A&S event.
November 2007
November 1 - Fiber Arts Project: Combing and carding dyed wool.
November 8 - Shire Cookbook: Followup
November 15 - Make a new A&S schedule
November 17 - Fiber Arts Project: Washing and Mordanting, 5 pm at Diane's house (dyanearden@gmail.com)
November 18 - Fiber Arts Project: Rinsing the Wool, 2 pm at Diane's house (dyanearden@gmail.com)
November 22 - No Meeting
November 29 - Fiber Arts Project: More spinning. Dramamine will be provided.
May 2008
May 1 - Period Gardening II (Wrath of Kahn)
May 8 - Spinning Practicum
May 15 - Finger Loop Braiding
May 22 - Living History Day Demo Prep
May 23 - Sgt. Kenneth M. Eaton Living History Day at the Homer High School, 8 am - 2:30 pm
May 29 - Dairy Parade Prep
June 2008
June 3 - Cortland Dairy Parade (evening)
June 5 - A Brief History of Arms/New Members
June 12 - Garb Class
June 19 - Kite Making
June 26 - Food Sampling
July 2008
July 3 - [No Meeting]
July 10 - Delftwood Children's Event Prep
July 12 - Delftwood Children's Event
July 17 - Finger Loop Braiding
July 24 - Bernadette's Dance Class [Pennsic]
July 31 - Garb Class, follow up [Pennsic]
August 2008
August 7 - Pennsic Pity Party [Pennsic]
August 14 - Herb Preparation
August 21 - Looms, and other vicious plants
August 28 - Fall Class Planning