Yule Moot: Sunday December 8, 1:30 – 7:00 at Maeve’s (2715 Western Ave, Mattoon, IL). Business meeting at 1:30, Activities from 3-5pm; pot luck feast 5:30pm. White elephant gift exchange. Rides from C-U available. Festival of Maidens. Saturday, January 25 8am-11pm. Orr Building, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield. Click on links & dropdown menu above for […]
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Royal University of the Midrealm. Classes on a wide assortment of subjects of interest to Middle Ages and Renaissance reenactors and enthusiasts. Saturday, October 26. For more info, click the “RUM 2019” tab above. Or see: https://www.facebook.com/events/1106332796233095/ Crystal Ball. Saturday, November 9. All day event revolving about the subject of courtly dance. Classes during the
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Sewing Nights. Tuesdays, September 17, October 1, 15, 29, 7-9pm, Illini Union Rm 405. Coronation of Seto and Ynes. Saturday, September 28. Every 6 months a new King and Queen step up to the thrones of the SCA’s Middle Kingdom, with much pagentry, panoply, and pompousness. Let us welcome our new monarchs! Sponsored by the
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Tuesday, August 19: Sewing night at the Makerspace, 6pm, Independent Media Center, Urbana, Illinois. Saturday, August 24: Baroness Duchess Wars, Annual camping event with all the trimmings – combat, rapier, archery, merchants, royal court, classes, arts competitions. Christian County Fairgrounds, Taylorville, Illinois. Sponsored by the Shire of Swordcliff. Sunday, August 25: Caer Gwyn demo and
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Some great activities are coming up in Caer Gwyn and around the region. Be sure not to miss a thing! Tuesday July 30: Monthly Arts and Sciences meeting, 7pm , Illini Union, Urbana, Illinois Sunday, August 4: Monthly Business Meeting, 5pm, Illini Union, Urbana, Illinois Tuesday August 19: Sewing night at the Makerspace, 6pm, Independent
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My apologies in advance for beginning this weeks blog with a grisly family story. I was watching Call The Midwife recently. The episode was about an illegal abortion that went very wrong. I was reminded of a similar tale from my own family. Way back in the 20s I had a Great Auntie Lizzie. She
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Sometimes I love weeds. Well, at least a plant others consider being a weed. I mean they have an insatiable desire to thrive no matter where they are. Unlike some more “well-liked” puny garden annuals, that have to be constantly babied. So what is better than a weed that not only thrives without help but also
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Good Morrow, When I have the chance to meander down a country road I do. As I trek the byways of rural Logan County I gaze upon the wild flowers growing abundantly wherever Mother Nature has chosen for them to sprout. It is in Four of these plants, and their medicinal uses that I base
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La maith duit, Good day to you in Irish Gaelic. In my last blog, I spoke of the many topics I would cover over the next year or so. Then I thought, in what order shall they go ? Should I start with gardening since I love digging in the soil, historic sites, since I
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Taobh amuigh, gaelic for outsider. One of the first words I learned from my maternal grandfather, Robert Allan. He was descended from the MacDonald clan of Glencoe. He arrived in America, or the colonies as he always called it, as a Scottish immigrant in 1919. I must admit I felt like taobh amuigh many times
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