The QD Newsletter for the Barony of Caer Mear

Volume 34, Issue 1 January 2012

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An Important Message from Our Baron & Baroness

Unto the Populace of Caer Mear do Baron Augustin

and Baroness Aine send festive greetings!

We extend Our deepest appreciation to everyone who

helped make Yule such a wonderful event. The food

was delicious, the atmosphere festive and the camara-

derie unmatched. We enjoyed spending time with all of

you in attendance, including Our dear guests from afar,

Baron William of Storvik, and Baron Ragnar and Bar-

oness Lynette of Dun Carraig (and the beautiful babies

which provided much entertainment for us all!!)

Congratulations to Brother Amos on his squiring to His

Grace Duke Ragnar during Our court, and to all the

award winners, especially Lord William (Cookie) Bar-

foot, for whom We presented an AoA as directed by

Their Majesties during Crown Tourney.

At this time, We also have an important, and bitter-

sweet announcement that We shared at the last baronial

business meeting. The upcoming Ruby Joust will mark

the end of our tenure as your Baronage and We have

decided that it is our best interest at this time to clear

the way for Our successors. We love serving You in

this capacity but many other factors have influenced

the decision to step down. We thank you for all of your

tremendous support so far, and appreciate your contin-

ued help over the next 5-6 months.

Soon you’ll hear words from Baron William, our sene-

schal, about the polling process. For anyone interested

in serving, We are always open to meeting with you to

discuss what it takes to serve and share our experience,

as will most of the retired baronage.

In the meantime, We wish all of you a very Merry

Christmas and Happy Holidays, and Our best and

brightest wishes to you and your loved ones for a

healthy and safe new year.

Yours always in service,

Aine and Augustin

A Word from Our Seneschal Greetings,

I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe holiday. As

the New Year starts the Barony has a very important

matter in helping to determine our next Baronage. You

will find a separate letter in this QD that details the

schedule and process. For those who may be interested

in submitting a Letter of Intent, please remember that I

need those by Jan. 17th. Would suggest that if you are

interested please seek out Their Excellencies and any

other former Baronage, as they would gladly share

their experiences with you.

Battery Park Church has been very good to us for many

years now by allowing us to use of their facilities at not

charge. As a small way by giving back we have help

them with the CARITAS program, which will be Feb-

ruary 4-11. They take in approximately 35 homeless

gentlemen for a week and provide them shelter and

meals. We have been doing the cot set-up on Saturday

and providing a meal on Tuesday night when we would

normally be having practice/A&S/gather. To help off-

set the cost of food we provide there will be a donation

jar at all the January gathers, our goal is to collect

$150. At Yule we raised $75 towards that, any money

that is left over after paying for food cost will be do-

nated to church to help offset their cost. Lady Ysabella

has graciously agreed to head up our cooking efforts

again this year. Once I have a time for cot delivery will

post to the e-mail list.

I would like to announce that Baron Kendrick will be

the autocrat for Ruby Joust/Investiture. I’m sure he will

be looking to fill a variety of staff positions and other

help needed in near future.

I am still in need of a deputy seneschal who would be

interested in taking over as Baronial Seneschal. My

warrant was due to expire in February but I have asked

and been granted an extension until after Ruby/

Investiture. Please contact me if are interested.

In Service,

Baron William

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- Photo of the Month -

Why yes, it’s Slav-o-Flav; the newest

squire to the house of Blackhammer.

When Baroness Lynette, lady of the

household, asked if he would like her to

make him a chain for his squiring cere-

mony, he joked about wanting a huge

clock on a chain like the rapper, Flavor

Flav. Well, he learned the hard way that

Lynette can make anything!

A&S Schedule for Tuesday Gathers

January 3rd:Tips for displaying your A&S project

January 10th: Bardic with Lady Kilmeny

January 17th: Fancy Bread with THL Henricus

January 24th: Naalbinding with Lady Anne of Grenewood

January 31st: KAS run through. . February 4th: Kingdom Arts and Sciences Festival!

February 7th: No Practice due to CARITAS at church

February 14th: Bardic with Lady Killmeny

February 21st: Fingerloop braiding with Mistress Margaret

February 28th: Photography for A&S with Lord William

Barfoot. . Please let me know if you would like to teach a class or

wish a class to be taught. . In Service,

Magda

Letters of Intent

Greeting unto the Populace of Caer Mear

Their Excellency Augustine and Aine will be stepping down at

the end of their tenure in May. I am now accepting Letters of In-

tent for those who would like to be considered for candidates as

the next Baronage of Caer Mear. Please send your Letter of Intent

to me at cmseneschal@gmail.com by Jan 17th; this is day before

the next business meeting. You must be a paid member of the

SCA and live within the Kingdom of Atlantia. The duties and

requirements of a Territorial

Baron/Baroness can be found on Atlantian web site

http://law.atlantia.sca.org/Law.pdf (see section number 6).

Letter of Intent should include at least the following:

Mundane and SCA name

Membership number with expiration date

A brief description about yourself and goals if selected as next

Baronage

The tentative time line is as followed:

Dec 20 th - Request for Letters of Intent to Baronial e-mail

list and web site

Jan 1 st - Request for Letters of Intent to be published in The QD

Jan 17th- Deadline for Letters of intent to be received by CM

Seneschal

Jan 31st- List of candidates and Letters of Intent to TRH from

CM Seneschal

Feb 15th – Baronial business meeting candidates will be given

opportunity to address the populace

Mar 1st - Letters of Intents and polling date to be published in

The QD and on Baronial website

Week of Mar 12th polling to be mailed out to paid members of

Barony and its subgroups

Mar 31st - Polling due to be returned back to TRH

Apr ?? - Decision from TRH/TRM depending on date

May 28th - Investiture to be held @ Ruby Joust

Please contact me if you have any question.

In Service

Baron William Cameron

Seneschal Caer Mear

cmseneschal@gmail.com

The Little Things

His Majesty and I have recently had the pleasure to attend

two "small" events in the last two weeks. First We travelled

north to the Barony of Dun Carraig, where We invested

Ragnarr and Lynette as the new Baron and Baroness. The

weather was fine, and the day passed with pleasantly with

much music, archery, rapier and armoured combat. I was

most pleased to see the Lochmere Arrow competition for

the first time. Next We traveled south to Misty Marsh for

Jester's Tournament, where the event staff took a theme and

ran with it! The event boasted games of chance in all ven-

ues, and We even got to enjoy watching children make

their own jester hats.

These events may have been at opposite ends of the King-

dom, but they shared much in common. While some might

call them "small" or "local" events, there were many who

traveled great distances to attend each. Both were well

planned, well attended and boasted excellent feasts. His

Majesty and I enjoyed ourselves very much, and applaud

the event staff who made these events possible. Some of

Our fondest memories of the SCA are of occasions that

took place at smaller events, where people have time to

relax and enjoy each others' company. Whether the event is

large or small, local or Kingdom, it's the little things that

add up to a great event, such as the site tokens, or the

smiles on the faces of the MOLs, having enough lavatory

tissue, or signs placed BEFORE the turn you are supposed

to make. Most importantly, it is the people. Our Kingdom

is great in spirit, and this is evident in Our travels. Thank

you all.

Warmest Regards,

Padraigin Regina

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The Rumor Mill

By Otter Gossip

Well juicy news abounds from the highlighted event last

month….Yule! If you missed it you really missed out.

The church was festively decorated and folks were

dressed in their finest. The potluck was delicious!

Why, there’s Magda tasting the wares and

looking marvelous.

Court was exciting as we had special

guests attending. Baron William of Stor-

vik, Duke Ragnarr and Baroness Lynette

of Dun Carriag all came to our little shin-

dig!

Baron Augustin and Baroness Aine had

many awards to hand out to our deserving

populace. Lady Kilmeny and Lady Kadlin

were accepted into the Order of the Pha-

ros. Baron Kendrick received the Order of

La Bris de Mer. THLord

Henricus is seen here receiving a UFO.

Petite Marie was welcomed into the Or-

der of the Cornerstone. The Merlon of

Caer Mear was given

to Sir Bryce for host-

ing the Cross & Lily

Tournaments each

month. Even Their Majesties reached

out through Their Excellencies to

award William “Cookie” Barfoot his

AoA!

After court Duke Ragnarr held a short

ceremony, taking Brother Amos as his

squire.

Then there was

dancing and much

singing until the

evening’s end.

It was the most

memorable Yule and now I can’t

wait until next year!

This Month in History

1/5 - Lady Isabel Henry’s Birthday

On this day in 1349, Margaretha of Bavaria names

her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand

1/7 - Mistress Melisent’s Birthday

On this day in 754, Pope Stefanus II arrives in

Ponthion

1/14 - Kingdom 12th Night

On this day in 1514, Pope Leo X issues a papal

bull against slavery

1/28 - Lady Marie’s Birthday & Ice Castles

On this day in 1547, 9-year-old Edward VI suc-

ceeds Henry VIII as king of England

Data provided by www.historyorb.com

Musings from the Mad Monk

By Brother Amos the Pious

Happy New Year! As we all know with

every New Year there is a chance for rein-

vention and growth. Some people make resolutions each

year and whether they keep them or not, it gives them

something to strive for. Someone once told me "Shoot for

the stars and even if you miss you may still hit the moon".

In this vein of thought I would like to encourage you to

take some time and think about your SCA dreams, goals

and things you want out of the society in the coming year.

As for me I have a few SCA resolutions.

My first goal is to become a better fighter. To do this I need

to fight as much as possible, get back in shape and practice

more than once a week. I also need to keep my armor and

weapons in good working order. Most importantly, I need

to take a more proactive role in the fighting community.

I would also like to learn more songs to sing, hopefully

ones that are not so common in Atlantia. I think it would be

fun to help start some kind of fighter based singing group

to showcase the talented fighters we have here in Atlantia.

I want to increase my knowledge and practice of the scribal

arts. I would like to learn how to better use period pigments

and mediums. I hope to make as many new scrolls as my

schedule permits.

My final resolution is to get my monthly article for The QD

finished and delivered to the chronicler by the 25th of each

month.

I hope this has inspired you to dream big for this new year.

Never fear to strive for the impossible because regardless

you will end up with something awesome, even if it is just

a really good story.

Pax Vobiscum

-The Mad Monk

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~Pages’ Page ~ Informative, educational and fun activities to learn more about the SCA!

To become a Page or to find out more about it, go to: The Atlantian Pages’ Academy home page.

Answers from last issue.

Color this Heraldry.

Windmasters’ Hill Nottinghill Coill Tir-y-Don Hidden Mountain

Fun with Mazes! Start in any of the four squares, pass through the other three

and return to the first square without retracing a path.

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Upcoming Kingdom Events

January 2012

7 Winter Ball Bright Hills Chestertown, MD

14 Kingdom Twelfth Night (R,H) Windmasters' Hill Carthage, NC

21 Verses of the Stone Middlegate Jamestown, NC

21 Lochmere Mid Winter Revel Lochmere Lothian, MD

21 Inter-Baronial Twelfth Night Tir-y-Don Yorktown, VA

28 Ice Castle (R,H) Black Diamond

28 Midwinter's Tale Border Vale Keep Augusta, GA

February 2012

4 Kingdom Arts and Science (H) Sudentorre Spotsylvania, VA

11 Bright Hills Baronial Birthday Bright Hills Manchester, MD

17-19 Ymir XXXVII & Baronial Investiture (H) Windmasters' Hill Reidsville, NC

24-26 Nottinghill Coill Baronial Birthday Nottinghill Coill Simpsonville, SC

25 Ponte Alto 20th Anniversary Ponte Alto Fairfax, VA

March 2012

3 Dance the Cold Winter Away East

3 Atlantian Winter University Sacred Stone Winston-Salem, NC

10 Siege of the Black Tower Rivers Point Petersburg, VA

10 A Day in the Middle East Dun Carraig

11-18 Gulf Wars XXI (H) Gleann Abhann

23-25 Battle for the marsh Abbey Brockore Abbey hartsville, SC

24 Seven Hills Skirmishes Black Diamond Lynchburg, VA

24 St. Paddy's Day Blood Bath Ponte Alto

30-1 Le Grand Tournoi d'Amitie Trois (The

Grand Tournament of Friends IV) Attilium Bunnlevel, NC

30-1 Night Under the Town Lochmere Annapolis, MD

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Baronial Business Meeting Minutes December 14th, 2011 *Meeting called to order at 7:11pm

Officer Reports Baron Augustin - Aine & I will be stepping down as your B&B at Ruby Joust. Polling in spring.

Seneschal - Thanks to Lady Kaolin for autocrating Yule. Food was amazing& plentiful and a good time was had

by all. I was unable to attend Unevent due to work & have not seen any info on Senschal list. No practice on

Dec 20th & 27th. Gathers will resume on Jan 3rd.

B&B - I’ll be accepting Letters of Intent for the next Baronage until Jan 17th, day before next business meeting.

Tentative time line as follows:

Dec 19th - request for letters of intent to be published on Baronial website & email list.

Jan 1st - Request for letters of intent to be published in The QD.

Jan 17th - Deadline for letters of intent to be sent to Seneschal.

Jan 31st - List of candidates & letters to TRH from CM Seneschal.

Feb 15th - Candidates given chance to address populace at baronial business meeting.

Mar 1st - Letters of intent and polling date to be published in QD & on baronial website.

Week of Mar 12th - polling to be mailed out to paid members of Barony and it’s sub-groups.

Mar 31st - Polling due to be returned back to TRH

April ?? - Decision from TRM/TRH depending on date.

May 28th - Investiture to be held at Ruby Joust I.

Have been granted an extension on my Seneschal warrant until end of May. Still looking for a deputy who

would be interested in being the next Seneschal.

Exchequer - The reconciled bank balance as of 11/30 is $12,092.49 Kingdom has cashed their share check from

Coronation. Donation has been given to Sir Bryce’s mother’s church and to Battery Park Church. Starting to

work on yr end report so Doomsday can go out as soon as Dec stmt is received.

Chatelaine - NP, NR

Chronicler - Nothing new to report.

Webminister - NP, NR

Herald - A change in Kingdom law regarding the Order of Precedence. It’s affecting AoAs, GoAs & retired

landed B&Bs. Report for Yule is prepared & will be sent to B&B this week. Have asked Lady Emelyn to be my

paperwork deputy & my drop dead. I dropped dead. Lady Emelyn will get her warrant ASAP. I have one pend-

ing submission & will complete the paperwork before 12th Night.

MOAS - Oct 31st there was a wonderful display of artisans & art at the Boulevard Flower demo. Battles of Brit-

tain was held in Nov. Dec A&S has focused on dancing & singing in prep for Yule. Mistress Aelfwynn taught

dancing & Lady Kilmeny taught period carols. Yule mask competition was won by Baron Hamish & Lady

Marie.

Chancellor Minor - There was mask making at Yule. It was a delight to see so many kids. lady Rosaleen will be

taking over as CM Chancellor of Youth.

Knight Marshall - One slight injury, practice & archery still continue. Unevent changes - archery range must

have 100 yds clearance.

MOL - NP, NR

Sub-Groups Rivers Point - There is a gather this Sunday then the next on will be on Jan 15th.

Yarnvid - Battle of Britain profited $155. We are dropping our monthly business meetings and will have them as

needed.

Caer Gelynniog - NP, NR

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Events Yule – Went very well. Had lots of help & I thanked everyone & do so again. We had a nice full house & bunches

of kids including Dun Carriag Baroness Lynette’s triplets! Lady Kilmeny led singing & I was pleased to see oth-

ers singing along as they packed up. Thanks to Watkin who brought his instrument. We not only danced but

danced to music on a period instrument. Thanks again to everyone.

Siege of the Black Tower - Mar 10th, same site as last yr. Pre-reg $10, feast $5 for pre-reg only.

Ruby - Baron Kendrick will be the autocrat.

Caritas - Requested an early delivery on cots since set-up is on the same day (2/4/12) as KASF up in Steirbach.

Yzzy will be heading up the cooking efforts again this yr. Will have a donation jar out at practices. We have a

goal of $150 to help pay for food. $75 was collected at Yule.

Old Business Storage - At Unevent Baron Augustin found out that all Barony’s have storage at Pennsic. Timic (sp?) with

Mooselodge may have space to share. Will continue to look into it.

Archery Targets - Lord Briain is researching, guesses about $30 to build.

New Business Polling - Seneschal estimates the polling will cost approx $250.

B&B - Yule was wonderful! Sunday we will be going to RP’s holiday gather. Not sure if we will be attending 12th Night

but we will be at Ice Castles. Wishing you all a Happy Holidays.

*Meeting adjourned 7:38pm

These notes are written by my hand. Error and omissions are my own.

In Service,

Ysabella Cacemoine

Next Business Meeting is January 18th at 7:00 PM at the Battery Park Christian Church

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Regnum

Baronage

Baron Augustin le Blinde Baroness Aine Rua

Jim and Tracy Janicki brotheraugustin AT yahoo.com

aine_rua AT yahoo.com

Seneschal Baron William Cameron

Ray Billingslea

(804) 366-6690 raybill57 AT gmail.com

Exchequer Kaolin Fjorliefardottir

Debbie deTreville exchequer AT caer mear.atlantia.sca.org

Chatelaine

Baroness Inga

Carolyn Quenstedt quenstedt AT aol.com

Chronicler

Ysabella Cacemoine Pamela Raymor

(804) 896-1224 otterpop63 AT yahoo.com

Webminister

Arnóra in Rauõa Beth deTraville

lady.arnora.in.rauda AT gmail.com

Herald Baron Kendrick del Grenewode

ramsdell AT msn.com

Minister of Arts & Science Baroness Magda z Stalburg

Maggie Pruett (804) 746-3421

maggiepruett AT comcast.net

Knight Marshal

Briain Sean O’Brien Larry Baxter

(804) 405-4617

Chancellor Minor Emelyn

Amy Pruett (804) 852-1336

aapruett AT gmail.com

Minister of the List Martine Picot

Bonnie Davis CaerGChatelaine AT gmail.com

Seneschal

Master Thomas Longshanks Tom McDonald

(804) 523-0184 YarnvidSeneschal AT yahoo.com

Exchequer

Lady Anna of Calais Brenda Pomfrey

Minister of Arts & Science

Kateryne Ferneley Megan Shogren

brockenspectre AT yahoo.com

Seneschal

Broccan mac Ronain ui Lochlainn William "Skip" Davis

caergseneschal AT gmail.com

Exchequer

Mary Beth Keller caergexchequer AT gmail.com

Herald

Ragnar Leifson Ed Claytor

heraldcaerg AT gmail.com

Seneschal

Honor of Restormel Gloria Woodard

honor AT restormel.net

Exchequer

Gustav von Siberwald Peter Topkis

(804) 690-9693 gustavvs AT yahoo.com

Minister of Arts & Science Sharon Miller Isabel Henry (804) 467-5664 lumiere62 AT verizon.net

Canton of Rivers Point

Canton of Caer Gelynniog

College of Yarnvid

Barony of Caer Mear

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Scheduled Meetings

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Caer Mear

Business Meetings Monthly; 3rd Wednesday at 7:00pm

Fighter Practice / A&S Gathers Weekly; every Tuesday at 7:00pm

Both are held at Battery Park Christian Church, 4201 Brook Road, Richmond VA

College of Yarnvid

Business Meetings Held as needed.

Arts & Science Gathers Weekly; every Thursday at 7:30pm Both are held at Epiphany Church

11000 Smoketree Drive, Richmond VA

Archery Practice Weekly; every Sunday at 1:00pm Held at Rockwood Park

3401 Courthouse Rd, Chesterfield VA

Caer Gelynniog

Business Meetings Monthly; every 2nd Thursday at 7:00pm Held at Bethel Baptist Church

227 Bethel Church Road, Palmyra, VA, 22963

Fighter Practice - Heavy, Rapier, Archery, Thrown,

A&S and Potluck Dinner Monthly; every 4th Sunday from 1pm-6pm

At Sir Corby’s home:

349 Mechunk Creek Dr, Troy, VA 22974

Canton of Rivers Point

Business Meetings Monthly; every 3rd Sunday during gather.

Fighter Practice / A&S Gathers Bi-monthly; 1st & 3rd Sundays from 1:00pm to 4pm

Both are held at the Colonial Heights Public Library

1000 Yacht Basin Dr, Colonial Heights, VA

All submissions are due by the 25th of each month for the next month’s issue.