Month: March 2022

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Shire Meeting – April 1st, 2022

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The Shire Meetings are the first Friday of each month. We can take care of business early (both in-person and online) and then start our weekend relaxations. The most important part of the Shire is us. So if you are coming in-person, the Borderwatch will take care of hospitality after the meeting. The workshop is here, so it would be a good time to work on armor after the meeting. 

The April Shire meeting will focus on planning for the Brewing, Bacon, Bash event. The meeting will be at 1898 Grant Street, Utica, PA 16362 and start at 7pm.

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Brewing Bacon Bash VII – BRB w/BLT Edition

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April 16th, 2022  

9:00am – 8:00pm

Utica Volunteer Firehall, 

3860 Academy Street, Utica, PA

Traditions are a little out-of-sync as we return to our SCAdian lands. So in reverse order.

THE BASH

This will be our “traditional” Heavy Combat Random Weapons Bearpit at the Borderwatch Training Hall. You and your opponent will have to roll a D20 to determine with what weapon you will use in the list. You have to roll the dice with every fight! It might be a spear, a dagger, a sword, a chicken… We will also provide the rubber chicken if you happen to roll the unlucky “13”. You need to hit them in the face with the chicken if you want to win that fight. We will have a supply of pre-inspected weapons you can borrow if you roll a weapon you didn’t bring yourself.

THE BACON – BYOB –> BRB w/BLT

We are sorry to say with the ever changing conditions of the plague we did not PLAN to distribute the bacon this year. So it WAS “Bring-Your-Own-Bacon”. We were suggesting the money saved from the lower event cost should be used for you to buy a pound of good thick-cut bacon. We encouraged you to bring your basket of bacon and hoard it. Eat it aggressively as you stare into the eyes of the poorly prepared and see the lamentations of those who forgot their bacon.Well, we have a hard time seeing sad people. So we will Be-Right-Back with bacon via a Build-a-BLT sideboard. I am not going to raise the price again though. Welcome to Hunters’ Home hospitality.

THE BREWING

The sampling for the competition will be held in the outside shelter. This competition will be for beer/ale, cider, and wine/mead only. Judging will commence at 3PM, and will run in 15 minute increments for each entry. We will use the judging rubric currently posted on the brewers’ guild website. http://brewers.aethelmearc.org/competition.htmlBrewers should come prepared for active judging, meaning the brewer should be prepared to answer questions during the judging. Entries will be judged one at a time, and we will make every effort to judge multiple entries from a single brewer back-to-back. We can also attempt to schedule fighters later in the judging to give them maximum time to come off the lists. Documentation must be written, and should cover style, ingredients, and techniques/procedures for production. Where modern ingredients or techniques are used, the brewer should supply documentation for the period equivalent and an explanation of why the modern substitute was used (period ingredient is illegal in the USA, good vs. poor sanitation, etc.) Primary and secondary sources are preferred. We will not include presentation in the judging of Aesthetics, but all entries should be labeled with (as a minimum) the name of the brewer, the style of beverage, and whether or not sulfites have been added. For entries that require chilling, competitors should come prepared with their own cooler.Traditionally this competition decided the The Brewers’ Guild Region 2 champion (the entrant from Region 2 scoring highest in the competition) and included an additional prize for the overall winner regardless of region.

WHAT ELSE?

Well there are murmurings of more updates coming.
-Adding a Bardic Competition of Drinking Songs?
-Adding A&S Classes on sewing?
-Adding Thrown Weapons?
-Adding Yard Sale Tables?

Costs

Adult Event Registration is $10,Adult Member Discount Event Registration is $5,Children 11-17: $5,Children 10 and under: Free.Make checks payable to SCA-PA, Inc. – Shire of Hunters Home. Reservations may be sent to the Autocrat.
AUTOCRAT for this event will be Thorfinnr y Elsfiord (Tod Elford) PO Box 1, Utica, PA 16362, 814-720-9017, thorfinnr.elsfiord@gmail.com
CO-AUTOCRAT is Baroness Mistress Constance Waite (Lois Ament) constancew@zoominternet.net

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Organizational Meeting of the Shire of Hunters’ Home; SCA-PA Inc.   February 19, 2022

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Organizational Meeting of the Shire of Hunters’ Home; SCA-PA Inc.   February 19, 2022 at 1pm

Members were signed in with Consent to Participate and Release Liability Waiver and Covid Policy forms.

Lois Ament opened the meeting.

Elections were held and the following officers won by acclimation or majority vote:

Seneschal (Ends in 2024) Thorfinnr y Elsfiord (Tod Elford)

Exchequer (Ends in 2023) Rodrick Longschaunk (Rory Buhler)

Social Media and Webminister (Ends in 2024) Brynna Barth (Laura Griffis)

Minister of Arts & Sciences (Ends in 2023) Maggie Rue (Jen Sadler)

Chatelaine (Ends in 2024) Constance Waite (Lois Ament)

Chronicler (Ends in 2023) Catherine of Aksu (Catherine McLean)

Herald Pursuivant (Ends in 2023) Halfdan Rauthkinn (Mike Sanders)

Knight Marshal (Ends in 2024) Tarl Shadowraven (Marc Hall)

Minister of Lists (Ends in 2023) Rynea Von

Fencing Marshal (Ends in 2024) Jorah Sandor (Joel Little)

Thrown Weapons Marshal (Ends in 2023) Hrungnir Hjaldrbjorn (Braden Crawford)

Archery Marshal (Ends in 2024) Alrekr Bergsson (David Bessler)

Chamberlain/Gold Key (Ends in 2023) Constance Waite (Lois Ament)

Steward/Iron Key (Ends in 2024) Rollo Bastardson (Nathan Weaver)

Historian (Ends in 2023) Roderick Longschaunk (Rory Buhler)

 

The meeting was handed over to Tod Elford, the new seneschal.

The By-Laws that were put up for review on Nov. 1, 2021 were adopted with unanimous consent.

The Shire wished to formally acknowledge that we are willing to expand our borders.  We recognized that by combining with Stormsport we could reduce administrative offices and allow for rotation of personnel through offices.  We also wished to provide a home for vassals of those Shires that recently have dissolved.  Attached is a petition to acknowledge acceptance of responsibility.  

The Shire will move forward with the Brewing Bacon Bash but will not offer the sideboard due to difficulties in planning with food restrictions.  We will be dropping the cost of the event and updating the information shortly.

The meeting concluded prior to 2pm

 

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Organizational Meeting of the Shire of Hunters’ Home March 03, 2022

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Organizational Meeting of the Shire of Hunters’ Home; SCA-PA Inc.  March 03, 2022 at 6pm

Members were signed in with the newest Covid Policy forms.

Officer Reports

Exchequer: Rodrick Longschaunk (Rory Buhler)

  • No expenses. Balance= $2888.00
  • Warrant for office signed, but books and bank signature cards need to be transferred.

Social Media and Webminister: Brynna Barth (Laura Griffis)

  • None

Minister of Arts & Sciences: Maggie Rue (Jen Sadler)

  • None

Chatelaine: Constance Waite (Lois Ament)

  • Excited to plan for demos in the upcoming year.  Discussed targeting gaming conventions.
  • Established communication with our newest member via Zoom during the meeting. 🙂

Chronicler: Catherine of Aksu (Catherine McLean)

Plans are to put out the first re-issue of The Hunter’s Horn in May. There will be three issues a year:

  • May – August Issue             

Deadline for input:   May 1  with distribution  May 15

(which can cover news and highlights of Bacon Bash and pre-Pennsic, etc.)

  • September – December Issue            

Deadline is September 1 with distribution September 15  

(which covers news and anything post Pennsic, etc.)

  • January – April Issue             

Deadline is Jan. 1  with distribution Jan. 15       

(which covers 12th night if we have one, Hunter’s Home’s birthday celebration, the pre-bacon-brew-bash, etc.)

 

Herald Pursuivant: Halfdan Rauthkinn (Mike Sanders)

  • None

Knight Marshal: Tarl Shadowraven (Marc Hall)

  • No official practices planned – see Borderwatch for unofficial 

Minister of Lists: Rynea Von Ingen

  • None

Fencing Marshal: Jorah Sandor (Joel Little)

  • None

Thrown Weapons Marshal: Hrungnir Hjaldrbjorn (Braden Crawford)

  • None

Archery Marshal: Alrekr Bergsson (David Bessler)

  • None

 

Event Report

The event description was updated.  By saving on food I reduced the cost for adults by $5.  I was able to get refunded for reserving the backup site of Custalogatown BSA.  This does open $200 in the event budget.  If food restrictions open, we could possibly have a last minute potluck prepared sideboard.  The money might be needed for heating however.  

 

Shire Merger Report

With permission and direction from the kingdom, the Shire posted its intentions on social media regarding absorbing the former shire of Riversedge, the former shire of Hornwood and our northern neighbors of Stormsport.  Responses from social media have been positive.  Next steps are to have discussions with Stormsport and the kingdom.  Email threads have been established.  There is a Shire meeting for Stormsport on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2022 AT 6:30 PM at the Imperial Buffet 7200 Peach St Erie, PA 16509

 

We had a nice discussion with one of our newest members, Margaret, via zoom.  I promised I would post a means of gathering contact information to facilitate communication.

Agreed to push the meeting time back to start at 7pm for next month.

The meeting concluded prior to 7pm

 

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