Their Royal Majesties of Atlantia, Logan and Arielle, call upon the good people of Atlantia to join them in celebrating this most festive of seasons at Their Kingdom Twelfth Night, to be held in their Barony of Ponte Alto. Much feasting and merriment is planned: courts, performances, children's activities (sorry, no babysitting), shopping, and dancing. There will be a raffle and two auctions (with proceeds to go towards purchasing new thrones and other Kingdom regalia). The theme of the day is "heraldic display." Show off your banners, your heraldic garb, and other items with heraldry.
Schedule:
| 10:30 AM | Event opens |
| 10:45 AM | A&S Display Setup; Bardic Competition Preliminaries |
| 11:00 AM | Children's Activities Start |
| Noon | First Court |
| 1:00 PM | Voice Auction |
| 1:30 PM | Royal Bard Competition - Finals |
| 2:30 PM | Dancing |
| 3:15 PM | Children's Activities end; A&S Display closes (pick up items) |
| 4:00 PM | Feast: First Remove |
| 5:00 PM | Second Court |
| 6:30 PM | Feast: Second remove |
| 8:00 PM | Dancing/Silent Auction/Raffle Pick-Up |
| 10:30 PM | Event Ends |
Feast: A great feast of two removes is planned by our Head Cook Lady Winifred Corbet de Wynterwood. We have room for 320 on-board, but we will cook only for those whose paid reservations are received by December 20. Anyone with dietary concerns, please contact Lady Winifred (Marsha Goodell) at (703) 440-5093. Please note that there is significant space for off-board seating in the hall (320 spaces!) which can be claimed first-come, first-served at the troll.
On-board seating for the feast is now full. Please contact the autocrat for information.
Cost:
| On-Board | Off-Board | |
| Adult | $17.00 | $10.50 |
| Children, 6-12 | $8.00 | $5.00 |
| Children under 6 free. | ||
Send reservations and question to the autocrat, Lady Anne of Carthew (Barbara Bilodeau), 13456 Cobra Drive, Herndon, VA, 20171, (703) 437-6271 (NLT 10pm), carthew@mindspring.com with checks made payable to: Barony of Ponte Alto/SCA Inc.
Accommodations: Ponte Alto invites you not only into our Barony but into our homes. We will endeavor to provide FREE crash space to any who request it. To make arrangements, please contact our crash-space coordinator, Lady Karen Larsdatter (Karen Harris), 703-449-1928 (NLT 10pm), karen@agent.infodata.com. For those who want other accommodations, hotel reservations can be made at Fair Oaks Courtyard Marriott, 11220 Lee Jackson Hwy, Fairfax, VA, (703) 273-6161 or 1-800-228-9290 for $49 a night (plus tax) by Dec. 21. Mention the "Society for Creative Anachronism" when making reservations.
Merchants: Merchants are welcome and encouraged. Space is by pre-arrangement only -- see the Merchant Site Rules for more information. Please contact our Merchant Coordinator, Lady Tehair MacDiarmada (Sue Metzler), 9301 48th Place, College Park, MD 20740, (301) 474-3344 (NLT 10:30 pm), 2152178@MCIMAIL.COM (please put the words "12TH NIGHT MERCHANT SPACE REQUEST" in your subject line). A list of confirmed paid merchants can be found here.
Other stuff: The site is wet. Candles/open flame allowed. There are changing rooms available, but we expect a lot of people so please consider coming in garb. No pets. No smoking in the hall. For this and other information, see the Seneschal mailing.
Directions to the Site:
Directions to Hotel:
Come dashing through the snow to the annual Yule Revel in the Barony of Storvik, which will be held on Saturday, January 10, from 5 pm to 11 pm at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Join us for dessert, dancing and other activities to Celebrate Winter!
An A&S competition, themed "Winter Garb and Accessories," will be a Gentle's Choice, the winner being selected by votes. There will be an open A&S display (works in progress welcome), a Bardic Circle, a brewing competition, and a contest for Most Artistic Subtletie. Personal banners are encouraged, as are table decorations. There will be space set aside for gaming.
Site: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 4512 College Avenue, College Park, MD. This is a damp site; WINE ONLY. Legal drinking age in Maryland is 21.
Cost: Adults - $6.00, Children (6-12) - $3.00, Children 5 and under are guests of the Barony. Gentles who bring desserts will receive a $1.00 discount. Please make checks payable to the Barony of Storvik/SCA, Inc.
Mail reservations are encouraged. Send reservations to the autocrat: Chabi of Burkhan Khaldun (Charlotte L. Desilets), 3022 Wisconsin Avenue NW #A-102, Washington, DC 20016, (202) 686-9066 (NLT 11 pm).
Directions:
From I-495 take exit 25 (Route 1 South) into College Park. College Avenue is at the same light as the Maryland Book Exchange after the main campus area of the University of Maryland. Turn left onto College Avenue. Go 1 1/2 blocks and the church will be on your left. Continue to the stop sign at the end of the block, turn left, and follow around to the church parking lots. Troll will be at the church entrance closest to the first parking lot you enter.
The Shire of Cathanar invites one and all to join us in our annual celebration of the end of the Yule season. We welcome you to an evening of feasting, fun and frolic - there will be a variety of games and entertainment including Morgan's Bottle-Jousting, the ever-popular Tavern Song contest, Cathanar's Cut-Throat Gift Exchange, children's activities, a treasure chest raffle and more (did we mention the Fools Court?). The feasting will commence at 7 pm, and we will round out the evening with lots of dancing and a bardic circle. There is plenty of on site crash space, so bring your bed roll! (Sorry, no tent space available).
The site is Hancock Lodge, aboard MCAS Cherry Point, in Havelock. We will open the site at 11 am and it will close promptly at 9 am Sunday morning. Although the site is very wet, we are guests on a military installation so it is very important that we do not drink and drive; hence we will be running a shuttle to homes and hotels in the local area for those who do not wish to stay on site.
If you pre-register by January 5, the cost of this event is $5.00 for adults, 1/2 price for children 5-12, children under 5 are our guests. At the door, the cost will be $7.00 for adults, $3.00 for children 5 and up. If you would like to participate in the gift exchange, bring a wrapped gift (under $10, please). Make checks payable to the Shire of Cathanar, SCA, Inc.
Autocrat: Thyra Stefans (Debra Roberson), 20 Powell Circle, Havelock, NC (919) 444-2878. For more information, contact the autocrat.
Directions:
Take your best route to Highway 70 into Havelock. From the west, take 70 east into town, turn left at the Hwy 101 junction (there are 2 left-turn lanes at this light). At the next light take another left - this will take you through the main gate at MCAS Cherry Point. Tell the gate guard that you are with the SCA and are attending an event at Hancock Lodge. Stay on Roosevelt Blvd (DO NOT TURN). You will pass through 5 stop lights. Roughly one mile after the last light you will see the sign for Hancock Lodge, and an SCA sign. Turn right there and follow the road down to the lodge. From the east, turn right onto Hwy 101 and follow the same directions.
This year, Interbaronial 12th Night will be hosted by the Barony of Tir-Y-Don. All gentles are invited to join us and our Marinusian cousins for a day of peaceful revelry and feasting.
Activities: We will hold several A&S contests: Best Garb w/ Documentation; Period Dolls, Toys, and Games; Best-Dressed Lord, Lady, and Child; Hand-made 12th Night Gifts (adult & child categories);Banners and Tapestries; Table settings; Best Subtlety; and a Bardic contest on a winter/holiday theme. Other activities will include games and dancing. Children's activities are being planned for the afternoon, and a babysitter will be present all day in the nursery, to tend to your little ones (for a modest fee).
Site: Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 179 E. Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, VA. The hall opens at 10 AM and closes at 10 PM. Merchants are welcome. The site is DRY.
Fees: Ten dollars ($10.00) on-board, five dollars ($5.00) off. Ages 5-10, half-price. Four and under, free. Please note that the only on-board reservation is a paid reservation. Due to food that has to be ordered onboard reservations must be received by January 6th. Make checks out to "Barony of Tir-Y-Don, SCA, Inc." and send them to our Baronial Exchequer, Lady Gabriella della Falco (Trish Bowman), 113 Kingwood Drive, Newport News, VA 23601.
For more information, please contact the Autocrat, Lady Assar merch Owen (Angela Phillips), 4400 Chesapeake Avenue, Hampton, VA 23669, (757) 723-0716, (NLT 9:30 pm).
Directions:
If you're familiar with Tir-y-Don: the site is on Mercury Boulevard in the segment between Andrews Boulevard and Pembroke Avenue, next door to Wood's Orchard.
If you aren't: Take your best route to I-64 East in Hampton. Take the La Salle exit, 265-A. You will be on La Salle Avenue. At the second light, turn left onto Pembroke Avenue. At the fifth light (there is a bridge between lights 3 and 4), turn left onto Mercury Boulevard. The site is on the right, just after Wood's Orchard.
Indulge yourself (You know you deserve it) and celebrate with us at the Annual Desert Revel sponsored by the College of Yarnvid. The site is the Sycamore Square Town Meeting Hall and is open from 12 Noon until 5 PM.
Cost is $2.00 and a desert (enough for 6) for each adult and $1.00 and a desert (enough for 2) for each child. Make checks payable to College of Yarnvid/SCA, Inc. Try to keep the deserts in a medieval theme (NO popcicles). If you bring a documented desert, Please bring the recipe so all may be enriched by your knowledge as well as delighted with your desert. Games, dancing and other entertainments are planned, so come help us celebrate our Annual Desert Revel.
For more information, contact the Autocrat: Maria Theresa de Normand (Mary Bowles), 2811D Matterhorn Drive, Richmond, VA. 23228, (804) 515-0284.
Directions:
Take I-64 East to the Powhite Parkway west. Follow the parkway and exit on the first Midlothian Turnpike Exit heading west. Follow the Midlothian Turnpike west crossing over the Courthouse/Huguenot intersections. You will pass a Sam's Club and from the top of the next hill, count traffic lights. At the 3rd traffic light (CROWDER ROAD) turn right. Turn left At the 2nd driveway into the parking lot. You will see SCA signs leading you to the Sycamore Square Town Meeting Hall. Come on upstairs and join in the revelry.
The Shire of Border Vale Keep and the Baronies of Hidden Mountain and Nottinghill Coill are proud to present A SOUTHERN 12TH NIGHT.
Please join us in welcoming the New Year with revelry where the cold winds rarely blow. There will be numerous indoor games for young and old (or young at heart) alike. No need for children's activities. If the weather permits, you may stroll around the lake.
There will be hot and cold beverages available throughout the day. All may partake of a luncheon sideboard (stew, bread, cheese, and fruit) which will be out all day. However don't overindulge, Lord Bruno and his kitchen staff will prepare a scrumptuous feast for our delight that evening.
There will be an A&S competition, open categories, with the Yule Theme with wonderful prizes donated by members of the hosting groups. There will also be a Best Dressed Table Contest.
The cost is $17.00 per person, with families paying no more than for 3 gentles prior to January 17, 1998 (received by Jan 17). Offboard with the sideboard is $10.00. Children under 12 are half-price and children under 5 are our guests. The cost is $20.00 at the door (with the above provisions). Please make checks payable to the Shire of Border Vale Keep/SCA, Inc. The feast is limited to 200.
The Location is the Julian Smith Barbecue Pit on Milledge Road in Augusta, GA. The site is discreetly wet (no original containers please!). The site opens at 9:00 am Saturday morning and closes at 1:00 am Sunday morning.
A block of rooms have been reserved for the night of the 24th of January at the Masters Economy Inn, phone number: (706) 863-5566. Please mention that you are with the SCA and please call by JANUARY 17!! to ensure the better rate. (less than $40.00 per night for 4 people). Limited crash space is available.
Please send reservations to: Linda Markman, 338 East Hedge Road, Aiken, SC 29801, (803) 642-2287. email: jager@groupz.net. Please call Lord Bruno at the above number with any dietary concerns.
Autocrat: Viscountess Elitha bint Fahd (Gale Gunter-Schultz), 2070 Battle Row, Augusta, GA 30904, (706) 738-0064. Co-Autocrats: Lady Aoibheal de la Belle Ame (803) 559-9911 (NLT 10:00 pm) & Lord Donal MakBrair (803) 699-9621
Directions:
From I-20 take exit 65 and go east on 28. (Please be careful) The road becomes an expressway. Take the Broad St exit to the right and get into the left lane. Follow the road around to the left. Go to the first stoplight at the Amoco station and turn Left. The site is down a ways on the left. Signs WILL be posted.
Kingdom Twelfth Night and Yule are over, and now you can put all seriousness aside and join us for Hindscroft's 5th annual Fool's Twelfth Night. There will be all manner of fun and foolishness. Enter contests for most creative use of bells, best use of motley and help choose the new King or Queen of Fools. Games of skill and chance will be played, as well as a punning contest. And if we are not stuffed from the feast, there will be dancing.
The site is Marvin United Methodist Church, 4401 Indiana Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC. The site opens at 10 am and closes at 11 pm. The site is dry, and please leave your pets at home. Lord Oshi (John Sellers) will again be serving as your foolish feastocrat. Those with dietary concerns may reach him at (910) 760-9136 or email: jsellers@cris.com. The cost of all this fun is only $8 for on- board and $3 for off-board. Children 12 and under are half the adult costs. The feast is limited to 75 gentles. Please make your checks payable to Shire of Hindscroft/SCA Inc.
For reservations and/or information, contact the foolish autocrat: Lady Sine ni Dheaghaidh (Jane Sellers), 4050-E Huntingreen Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, (910) 760-9136 (NLT 9 pm), email: jsellers@cris.com. Merchants are welcome, but they must provide their own tables.
Directions:
From the South: Take US 52 NORTH toward Mt. Airy. Take the Akron Drive Exit #112. At the stoplight, turn left onto Akron drive. ***When Akron ends at Indiana Avenue, bear right onto Indiana and proceed approximately 1.3 miles. The church is on the right. (look for SCA signs)
From the North: Take US 52 SOUTH towards Winston-Salem. Take the Akron Drive Exit #112. Proceed to the stoplight and turn right onto Akron Drive. When Akron ends at Indiana, follow the directions from ***.
The Barony of Black Diamond invites the populace of Atlantia to join us in celebrating our Baronial Birthday and the Investiture of our new Baron and Baroness at the National Guard Armory in Lexington, VA. This is a wonderful site with a large main hall, a classroom, and bathrooms with showers all handicapped accessible! Site opens at 8 am and closes at 11 pm. An unofficial fighter practice will be held on Sunday, February 1st at the Washington and Lee University Student Pavilion, a 5 minute drive from the site.
Activities during the day will include the traditional three man melee tourney, an Arts and Sciences Competition, and various children's activities. The themes for the Arts and Science Competition will be Period Toys and Period Children's Garb. Please direct all questions about A&S to Lady Isabel D'Avignon (Genie Powell) at (540) 953-5332, email: genie@vt.edu.
Merchants are welcome. There are no merchanting fees.
A delicious feast is being prepared by Lord Morien, assisted by Baron Francis of Aaron Isles, Lord Uilliam MacCloskey, and Lord Aldred Blackwood. Seating is limited to 200 so please reserve on board early. The site is wet. Cost of the event is $10.00 onboard, $6.00 offboard. Children between ages 6 and 12 are half-price, under 6 free. Please indicate names of all persons included in multiple reservations, and ages if applicable. Please send reservations to Lord James Beckett of Westmorland, address below. Make checks payable to "Barony of Black Diamond/SCA, Inc."
For more information contact the Autocrats:
Lord James Beckett of Westmorland (Scott Silvers), PO Box 396, Lexington, VA 24450, (540)
463-3297 (NLT 10pm), email: ssilvers@wlu.edu
or
Lord Ragnar Reinulf (James Ghent), 1832 Grayland St #6, Blacksburg, VA 24060, (540)
951-7734 (NLT 10pm), email: jghent@vt.edu.
Directions:
The site is the National Guard Armory in Lexington, VA. Take your best route to I-81. Take I-81 to exit 191 (I-64 West) Go 1/2 mile to exit 55. Take a left at the end of the ramp onto Rt. 11 South. Take a right at the first light. Take the first left past the Rockbridge County High School (It will look like you're entering the parking lot). The Armory is at the end of the road. There will be SCA signs along the way. Directions to the W&L Pavilion will be available at the event, or call Lord James of Westmorland at (540) 463-3297.
Why risk a journey to the fierce fangs of the north? Travel south to warmer climes. Join the Canton of Tear-Sea's Shore at the 19th annual tourney of Manannan Mac Lir for a day of feasting, fighting and fencing.
The site is the Community Center on South Railroad Avenue in Harleyville, S.C. (This is a new site! Do NOT go to the traditional Manannan site!) This site is very discreetly wet. The site opens at 9 a.m. Saturday and closes at 10 p.m. that evening. This is a DAY SITE ONLY. There is no camping and the nearest hotels are 22 miles away at exit 199. Ample crash space is available if you reserve it in advance.
Fighting activities will focus on the traditional tourney of Manannan Mac Lir with prizes to include the brooch of Manannan Mac Lir. If time permits, we will also have a crestfallen melee for which you must wear a soft crest of some sort (preferably a stuffed animal - remember the sea theme!) There will be a separate prize for best crest. (This will be judged even if time does not permit!)
For those who prefer the sharper art of fencing we will hold a musketeer rapier tourney. A lady will be chosen as the queen and you must fight to rescue her from the machinations of the evil Richelieu.
Mannanananan offers more: We would not forget the artisans or children! There will be an open arts display with a gift for the creator of the item with the best use of a sea theme. For children we have several games planned, both indoors and out (weather permitting). The day will end with a surprising feast prepared by Lord Volgar, with dancing to follow. Armour inspection will begin at 9:30 with the tourney to begin at 10:30. Merchants are very welcome, tables are available at $2 each. The cost (paid in advance by January 24th) is $11 on board for adults, $5.50 for children 6-14. Price at the door will be $16 for adults, $8 for children pending the head cook's prudence. Off board will be $4 for adults, $ 2 for children. There will be no charge for children under 6. Make all checks payable to the Canton of Tear-Sea's Shore/SCA, Inc.
The autocrat is Baroness Simone de Barjavel (Sarah McFadden), 165 Tynes Avenue, James Island, SC 29412, (803) 762-7994 (NLT 10 p.m.) Please send reservations for feast or crash space to Mistress Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (Bambi Wimett), Box 522, Mount Pleasant, SC 29465-0522, (803) 881-5517, email: SILVERDRAGON@Charleston.Net.
Directions:
Take your best route to I-26 west of Charleston, S. C. Take exit 177 towards Harleyville. Follow the road until it ends in a T junction. Turn left toward downtown Harleyville. At the flashing yellow light turn right. The site is approximately 2 blocks ahead on your left.
In keeping with the Ancient Tradition Whose Origins Are Lost In the Mists of Antiquity, Baroness Fevronia and Baron Igor Bear will be hosting their annual Performers' Revel in the vasty halls of Caer Bear beginning at noon and continuing until exhaustion. (Crash space available!) We continue our hallowed practice of requiring a performance of some sort from each gentle attending. This can be musical, poetical, dramatical, terpsichorean, culinary, or something so simple as telling a joke! The whole purpose of the event is to provide a warm, welcoming venue to all children of the Muses. As always, Baron Igor will be conducting his annual demonstration that cooking is too a performing art!
Practicalities: The fee for the event, including Igor's feast, is $10. Checks should be made to the Barony of Storvik/SCA Inc., and sent to the autocrat - Baroness Fevronia (Kathleen Sobansky), 2204 Amber Meadows Drive, Bowie MD 20716, (301) 390-4428 (NLT 10 pm). Attendance is by prior reservation only - we have a limited number of places, and cannot admit people at the door. The site is Caer Bear, Igor and Fevronia's private residence, at the above address. The site is wet (Maryland drinking age is 21). Children may find it tedious to sit quietly for the performances, so parents should make arrangements accordingly.
Directions:
Take your best route to the Washington DC Beltway/ I-495. Go to the Route 50 exit (If you think of the Beltway as a clock face with 12:00 being north, Route 50 is at roughly the 3:00 position. Take Route 50 East, towards Annapolis, to Route 301. Go south on Rt 301 for about 4 miles, to Mitchellville Road (there is a blinking yellow light) Turn right on Mitchellville Rd. Go about 1/4 mile to Arbor Hill Rd. Turn right on Arbor Hill, and follow it until it T-bones into Alderwood. Turn right on Alderwood. Go to the first left turn, which is Alstead. Go left on Alstead, and take an almost immediate right onto Amber Meadows Drive. We are the 3rd house on the left.
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