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Greetings, gentlefolk! You are cordially invited to the Debatable Lands twelfth night celebration on January 25th, 2025. Come for food and drinks, contests of skill, and a night of revelry with friends!

When and where: 9AM to 9PM, at North Park Lodge, North Ridge Drive, Allison Park, PA 15101

Activities:
Potluck food (bring a dish to share!)
The annual cookie contest
Drinks from our wonderful Brewer’s Guild
Baronial Bardic championships
Baronial A&S championships
Largesse competition
Auction of donated items, with proceeds going to the Barony (there will also be a barter zone)
The Debatable Lands social/business meeting
Dancing
Pillow fights
Shenanigans and merriment
How much does all of this cost? Absolutely nothing!

I have other questions! Contact the autocrat, Forveleth Dunde MKA Miranda Gavrin, at forveleth@gmail.com or 317-697-7883.

All martial practices regularly held at the park on Washington Blvd will be canceled for Sunday 9/29/24, due to expected rain. See you next week!

Guillaume

Hello fencers! Due to the impending rain, practice this Sunday is cancelled.

Hi all from Niall!
The remnants of Hurricane Helene are approaching, and it looks like the next few days are going to be rather soggy, if not particularly inclement, so archery practice for tomorrow is cancelled.
Next week’s practice (October 6th) will feature the next Stellar Tournament for Defender of the Sky.

There is scroll case sewing Sunday Sept 29th from 1pm to 5pm at 1105 Shady Avenue. Please see the earlier post for the details. Also, the Great Race is on Sunday. The 10k race which starts at 9:30 a.m. goes from Frick Park along Forbes Avenue to Oakland and then on Fifth Avenue into town. Here is the link for the map. In the bottom right it lists the closing times for different parts of the route. You should avoid coming through downtown.

On Sunday September 29th, I am having sewing at my house. It will be scroll case sewing day. I have lots of fabric scraps and way too much cardboard. I’m inviting folks that are comfortable with sewing machines to come and sew casings for the cardboard to be scroll cases. They are needed to cover the lovely scrolls that people are awarded. There is a constant need at the baronial and kingdom levels for MORE SCROLL CASES. Time is from 1pm to 5pm. The address is 1105 Shady Avenue, Pittsburgh 15232. Please park on the street. If you are bringing a sewing machine and want to park in the driveway to drop your sewing machine, you may do so. But then, please pull out to make room for others to do the same. Also I’d rather that you did not bring cardboard or fabric. I really would like to use up what I have.

I hope to see you next Sunday.

Greetings, fencers! This Sunday (9/22) we will begin fencing practice at 11 AM to make things easier for our out of town visitors here for Coronation. Our weekly beginner/intermediate lesson will be from 1:30 to 2:00 pm as usual.

Hello, Fencers! This Sunday (9/15), bring your Cut and Thrust gear if you’ve got it for our next C&T focused practice. In addition, I’ll be running the next weekly fencing lesson for our beginner & intermediate fencers from 1:30pm to 2pm. Note: we are back to our regular 1pm start this week.

Hi all from Niall!

I’ve decided to continue our mid-week archery practices thru the rest of September with an earlier start and end time, due to the decreasing sunlight in the evening hours. Starting tomorrow (Thursday, 9/12), I will plan to be at the Washington Blvd. location with the archery range open starting at 5:00 pm and closing up shop at 7:30 pm (or whenever it gets too dark to see). I will also start bringing a small-ish selection of our loaner gear for those without their own or for folks who want to try out the new Asiatic recurves. I’ll continue to have run the Thursday mid-week practices as long as I am able and the weather cooperates – so come on out and shoot with us, and get a Royal Round submitted!

UPDATE: For next week’s mid-week practice on September 19th, we will not meet at the Washington Blvd. location – instead, those who are able are encouraged to join our neighbors in Steltonwald for their practice from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Beaver Valley Archery Association.

Greetings, fencers! Tomorrow we will shift fencing practice earlier (11 AM start time) to make things easier for our out of town guests. In addition, we will discuss the incipient C&T grappling experiment! We will break at 1pm for the barony social meeting. Please be cognizant of limited parking.