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http://www.eastkingdom.info/lyndhaven/spring_schola/index.html
After the exhausting task of holding a major event, now is the time for us to kick back, relax, and enjoy a day of gentle art.
The Lyndhaven Spring Schola is a day event, this year. (Next year it will return to being a weekend event.) See the class schedule on the event's web site. Following the classes, there will be a "coordinated pot-luck" feast with entertainment and (hopefully!) dancing.
Directions:
From east or west, take exit 303 off of the Trans Canada highway into Oromocto. Turn right at the top of the ramp, and head north on Miramichi Avenue. Continue straight through the first two traffic circles, and straight through the four-way stop at the intersection of St. John Avenue. At the third traffic circle, take the 3 o'clock exit onto St. Lawrence Avenue. Continue on St. Lawrence, heading east, until you reach the main gate of CFB Gagetown (about 800 m).
Enter the main gate, and continue straight on Tilley Road (St. Lawrence becomes Tilley) all the way to the end. Turn left onto Ganong Road. The base gym should be on your right.
Continue on Ganong Road until you see the sign for the Argonaut Cadet Camp on your right. Turn onto the Argonaut road. Drive to the very end of this road, past the cadet camp, and keep driving when the road turns to gravel. At the very end is the Lindsay Valley Lodge.
To find this site on Google maps, use the following Lat and Long co-ordinates: 45.8552,-66.4254T
Here's a map.
Site:
Lindsay Valley Lodge
CFB Gagetown
Oromocto, NB E2V 4J5
Canada
Site Opens: 11am
Site Closes: 11pm
Event Fees:
Adult (14 and over): $2
Under 14: free
Feast: There is no cost for the feast: everyone bring food!
There is no deadline, but please visit the event web site so that your name can be put beside a potluck dish category.
Send Reservations to the autocrat:
Master Henry MacQueen
spring_schola@hankmail.pointyhats.com
mka David Swan
1118 Rt 635
Harvey, NB
E6K 1B2
Make Cheques Payable to: SCA Shire of Lyndhaven
Site: Truro Fires Services, 165 Victoria Street, Truro, NS - use back "Promenade" entrance. There is plenty of parking in back.
Site Fees:
List of Planned Activities:
Mancala Board A&S "Competition": Entrant in this activity are asked to
make a mancala board. "Winners" will be recognized in the following
categories:
Contact Mistress Bess for more information: sjpaterson@eastlink.ca
Northern Shores Royal Travel Fund - Boxed Lunch Auction: As the feast
for this event is Potluck, and the Dayboard is a bring-your-own-brown-bag, we are asking the talented people of the many cantons to donate a
lunch for two to be auctioned off during the lunch hour. All proceeds
will go to the NSRTF. Contact Mistress Bess for more information:
sjpaterson@eastlink.ca
Mancala War Tourney: We ask the brave entrants of this tourney to come in teams to battle out in the lists to see who has the greatest skill at mancala. Entrants will be required to have a voice herald to announce their group and there will be prizes for: "Best Death", "Best Heraldic Display", "Most Chivalric Fighter", and "Overall Mancala Champions". So get your game face on, find your team and get ready for WAR!
Riddle-me-this Scavenger Hunt: After the tourney there will be a Team Scavenger Hunt. Teams will be given a packet containing five riddles which they must solve. They then must find the items that are described by those riddles, or make them...if need be. Teams will be asked to defend their choices at feast and a People's Choice and Judge's Choice will be awarded.
Contact Mistress Bess for more information: sjpaterson@eastlink.ca
Schedule:
You can register online through the Ruantallan website or contact Libby directly at lesley_brann@yahoo.ca
Event Website: http://dragonets.tripod.com/id10.html
Friday, May 16th, 2008 to Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Hosted by Shire of Le Dragonet (incipient) - St-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC
Nous vous invitons tous à cette nouvelle aventure. Un évènement camping du 16 au 18 mai au champs de tir du Mont St-Bruno. Sur le site il y a eau non potable, alors apporté votre eau potable. Le Samedi nous auron un Sanglier ou Cochon braisé inclu dans le prix d'entré.
We invite you all to this new adventure. A camping event from 16 to 18 May at ranges of Mount St. Bruno. On the site there are unsafe water, so bring your own drinking water. On Saturday we will have a wild Boar or Pig Roast, included in the entry price.
Directions:
Rendez vous sur la rive sud de Montréal,(si vous traverser par le pont Victoria, vous êtes en ligne avec la 116 qui devient le Boul Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier), sur la 30, prenez la sortie 118 direction St-Bruno-de-Montarville ou St-Basile-le-Grand. Vous êtes maintenant sur le Boulevard Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, tourner a gauche sur le Boulevard Du Millénaire, ensuite a Gauche sur le Chemin des Vingt. Le Champ de tir sera a votre droite.
See you on the south shore of Montreal,(If you cross the Victoria Bridge, you are in line with the Hwy 116 that become Boul Sir Wilfrid Laurier), on Hwy 30, take Exit 118 toward St-Bruno-de-Montarville or St-Basile-le-Grand. You are now on Boulevard Sir Wilfrid Laurier, turn left onto Boulevard Du Millénaire, then Left on Chemin des Vingt. Camp site will be on your right.
Site:
Champ de tir St-Bruno
1625 chemin des vingt
St-Bruno-de-Montarville, QC J3V 4P6
Canada
See map.
Event Fees:
Send Reservations to:
Jacques Dumas, 439 rue St-Hilaire, Farnham, QC, Canada, J2N 1G8
Autocrat:
Sergio da Verone
Jacques Dumas
Dumas.JAEJ@forces.gc.ca
Make Cheques Payable to: SCA Dragont Dormant
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
Sharpen your foils!
Practice your parries!
Lengthen your lunges!
Our illustrious and very innocent Meistr Gruffyd will soon test your ability in his Baronial Rapier Championship Tournament. Stay tuned to the Ruantallan list for details as he may post them. Don’t forget to send your letter of intent to both Meistr Gruffyd and T.E. Baron Lachlan and Baroness Janet. (baron@ruantallan.org)
Lady Sorcha the Red is preparing a delectable feast for all!! The menu will be posted as soon as it is available.
Master Gilbert has been furiously organizing youth boffer fighting! He assures us he will wear something to make him stand out from the throngs of Ruantallan Youth.
Mistress Elise has confirmed a wonderful shooting space on site for our Baronial Archery Champion to test out his evil plans (oops!) some ideas for both adults and children in preparation of the upcoming archery tournament at War Camp. Lord Algernon will also be available for Royal Rounds.
For those wishing to avoid marshals all together, H.E. Mistress Gwen and Mistress Bess have graciously agreed to teach some textile (A & S) classes. Specific details will follow shortly.
Lady Margaret and Lady Isa will be leading the charge with the children in "Calligraphy and Illumination for Kids."
We have a few other surprises up our sleeves, but if we told you about them they wouldn’t be surprises now would they!
Make sure you come or we’ll talk about you!!
Register Soon!!!
A Non-Member Surcharge (NMS) of $3 will be added to the fee of each adult attendee who is not a member of SCA Inc.
Site:
Herring Cove Fire Hall
Directions:
Head South toward Halifax on Highway 102. Take exit 1D toward Dunbrack St, take the ramp right toward Herring Cove / Sambro. You are now on North West Arm Drive. At the end of this turn left on the Old Sambro Road and at the next light turn right on Herring Cove Rd. Drive for approximately 10 minutes and you are in Herring Cove. Stay on this road, do not turn at the green provincial sign! Just past this sign the road you are on will magically become the Ketch Harbour Road. You are still on the right track. Just on your right there will be a large sign for the Herring Cove Fire Hall, turn here. Please do not park on the pavement as the firetrucks need to be able to respond to emergencies.
Registration:
This is just a place holder. More information will be available, shortly.
Site:
Pointe D'argentenay
Ile d'Orleans, QC
Canada
Autocrat:
Sigfried
Make Cheques Payable to: SCA - Baronnie du Havre des Glaces\
Unto the good Gentles of the East, let it be known that the Shire of Smithwick invites all to our Annual Summer Event - this year we will once again be at the site with the Viking Longhouse (an authentic iron-age aisle post hall). The date is set for Friday June 20th through Sunday June 22nd, 2008 in the mundane lands of Houlton in Northern Maine (at the very end of I 95). Site fees will be $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for those 6 – 17 with children under 6 free. A discount of $3.00 per person will be extended to all adult SCA members. Please present your membership card when checking into the site.
Primitive camping is available for those seeking the weekend stay. Fresh running cold water will be available as well as outbuildings for relief. Camp stoves and grills are recommended however aboveground self-contained fire pits will be allowed this year. They must have a spark screen, the owner must have a fire extinguisher (water barrels will be provided), and the fire must not be left unattended. No pets please and the site is discretely damp.
Included in the site fee will be an evening repast of hearty beef and barley stew (subject to change at the discretion of the cook but it will still be some form of stew). This will be cooked in a cauldron inside the Viking Longhouse and all are welcome to visit the cook to watch. After dinner there will be music by Northern Caravans and/or Widdershinns followed by a chance to show your talents at an open Bardic Circle.
There will be scheduled classes (these will be posted at the gate and in the Longhouse), archery, heavy weapons combat, thrown weapons, and perhaps even another embroidery challenge this year since that has proven popular!
Merchants as welcome and encouraged. Please be sure to bring any display tables, etc. you may need as there are none available at the site.
Children are welcome however there are no structured activities planned for them. As always, parents are responsible for their own children.
Directions:
From South in U.S.: make your best way to Interstate 95 into (or from) Maine. Follow that until you reach Houlton and take exit 302 (toward Presque Isle). Turn left at the end of the exit ramp and follow Route 1 through the first stoplight and turn left shortly thereafter at the Family Dollar Store. See ** Below
From the Maritime Provinces of Canada: make your best way to TransCanada Route 2 and follow it (north or south) to the exit for Canada Route 95 (which leads to the Houlton border crossing). Once across the border you will be on US Route 95. Follow it until you reach exit 302 (toward Presque Isle). Turn right at the end of the exit ramp and follow Route 1 through the first stoplight and turn left shortly thereafter at the Family Dollar Store. See ** Below.
From the North and West of Maine: make your best way to Route 1 South toward Houlton. Once in Houlton you will slow to 50 MPH and pass the State Police barracks on your right. After passing this you will come to a section of Route 1 where there are three large gas stations (two left and one right) - there is a stop light in this section of the road before you get to the on ramp for Interstate 95. You want to turn right at the Family Dollar Store BEFORE you get to this stoplight. See ** Below.
** Once on the B Rd you will travel approx. 3 miles and turn right onto Back Ridge Rd. You will then travel a short distance to the driveway on the right (1st one) – follow the signs on the property to get to the event field.
If none of these directions fit where you are coming from, send an e-mail to the autocrat and specific directions can be sent to you.
At-a-Glance Event Information
Site:
Freehold of Tir
93 Back Ridge Rd
Houlton, ME 04730
Show me a map!
Site Opens: 4:00 PM
Site Closes: 1:00 PM
Event Fees:
Send Reservations to:
Reservations are not required however you may send your payment in early to the autocrat if you wish.
Autocrat:
For more information contact the Co-Autocrat, Jay the Harpmaker (MKA Jay Witcher) by mail at P.O. Box 1033, Houlton, ME 04730, by phone at (207) 532-9051 or by e-mail at witcherharps@ainop.com
Make Cheques Payable to: SCA - Shire of Smithwick
Greetings to all Good gentles. As the days start to lengthen it is time to start preparations for the upcoming war season. To that length Ynys Y Gwaed is proud to host this year’s Baronial War Camp. So fix that amour and bow, sharpen the axes and knives for it is time to hone some new skills. Come join us for a weekend of war practice.
Date – June 27 to 29. 2008
Site – Handibear Horse Sanctuary, South Granville, PEI
Staff:
Activites—Rattan, fencing, Archery, thrown weapons, children’s boffer,
Baronial Court and Bardic circle
Fees:
A non-member surcharge (NMS) of $3 applies to all adults who are not members of SCA.
Payment can be made to SCA Inc. - Barony of Ruantallan
Reservations can be sent to Joanna McDonald allessandra@eastlink.ca
Directions:
Handibear Hills,
3855,
South Grandville,
Breadalbane,
PEI, Canada
Directions:
From the Confederation Bridge (NB) or Caribou- Wood Islands ferry (NS),
find best way to Hwy #2. The easiest way to find us is Hwy#2. When
traveling either east or west along hwy #2 turn north onto hwy #230, by
the lighthouse. Follow hwy#230 to the crossroads and turn left (west).
Do not go onto the dirt road. Come up the hill about 0.5km and you will
see a big barn on the right, the turnoff is opposite on your left.
There will be signs to help out.
For direction questions please contact owner Yogi Fell at 1-902-964-3220 or 1yogi@pei.symatico.ca. You may also refer to the listed website for a graphic map http://www.handibearhills.com
Dogs are welcome but as this is a working horse farm, they must be
leashed at all times
There is potable water on site
Come forth, all good gentles from near and far and visit the fair isle of Ynys y Gwaed. Once again before the leaves turn and the winds blow cold come together for a weekend of fun and frolic. Enjoy the groaning feast board and many activities that are offered.
Dogs are welcome but as this is a working horse farm, they must be leashed at all times.
Activities:
Directions:
From the Confederation Bridge (NB) or Caribou- Wood Islands ferry (NS), find best way to Hwy #2. The easiest way to find us is Hwy#2. When traveling either east or west along hwy #2 turn north onto hwy #230, by the lighthouse. Follow hwy#230 to the crossroads and turn left (west). Do not go onto the dirt road. Come up the hill about 0.5km and you will see a big barn on the right, the turnoff is opposite on your left. There will be signs to help out.
For direction questions please contact owner Yogi Fell at 1-902-964-3220 or 1yogi@pei.symatico.ca. You may also refer to the listed website for a graphic map http://www.handibearhills.com
Site:
Handibear Hills Horse Snactuary
3855, South Granville
Breadalbane, PE Breadalbane
Canada
Here is a map.
Site Opens: 4pm Friday August 29th
Site Closes: 2pm Monday Sept 1st
Event Fees:
NMS of $3.00 will be charged to adult nonmembers
All fees in Canadian funds
Rservations close August 25th
Included in your event fee is a very substantial dayboard offered on both Sat and Sun afternoon.
Feast: same as above
Send Reservations to the autocrat:
Joanna McDonald
5 Rilla Rd, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, C1C 1K3 or
email: allessandra@eastlink.ca
Please make cheque payable to SCA Inc-Canton of Ynys y Gwaed
Other Contact Information:
For teachers or merchants please contact the autocrat
(date grab: more later)
October 18, 2008
Halifax Marriott Harbourfront
1919 Upper Water Street
Halifax, NS B2T 0A2
Phone: (902) 421-1700
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