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Meetings and Activities

Business Meeting Location and Time:

We meet every Thursday at 7 PM.
59 North Main Street, Cortland, NY
It is the parish center at Saint Mary's Church.
The site is handicap accessible.

Map: 59 N Main St, Cortland, NY (from MapQuest)

Directions from Ithaca:

  1. Take Route 13 North to Cortland
  2. Continue straight onto Route 281 at the A&W Restaurant.
  3. Turn right onto Groton Ave/Route 222
  4. Turn left onto North Main Street/Route 11
  5. The Parish Center is on the right side of the road, next to the parking lot, and across from the St. Mary's Church. The building had "Convent" carved in stone above the door.

Directions from Syracuse:

  1. Take Route 81 South to the Cortland/Ithaca exit (Rt 13)
  2. At the bottom of the exit take a right
  3. Take a right onto Clinton Ave
  4. Turn right onto North Main Street
  5. The Parish Center is on the right side of the road, next to the parking lot, and across from the St. Mary's Church. The building had "Convent" carved in stone above the door.

Fight Practice Location and Time:

No practices are scheduled at this time.

Business Meeting Schedule and Other Activities to Attend:

Aethelmearc Event Calendar

All meetings start with business and then go on to the following topics... usually:

August 2007
August 2 - Fiber Arts Project: Carding and Combing
August 9 -  Cortlandtslot Annual Pennsic Pity Party (location TBD)
August 16 -
August 23 - Finger Loop Braiding
August 30 - Fiber Arts Project: picking and washing wool at Segine's

September 2007
September 6 - Library Sciences: Excitement! Bring any cool research books you want to share. You'll never be the same!
September 13 - Shire Cookbook: Hashing out the format, assembling more recopies
September 20 - Fiber Arts Project: Combing and carding.
September 27 - Garb Talk and Workshop

October 2007
October 4 - Cooking Tings: We'll, um, clarify that... later
October 11 - Fiber Arts Project: Spinning practicum.
October 14 - Fiber Arts Project: Dyeing
October 18 - Dry Torches
October 25 - Event Prep: Fall A&S event.

November 2007
November 1 - Fiber Arts Project: Combing and carding dyed wool.
November 8 - Shire Cookbook: Followup
November 15 - Make a new A&S schedule
November 17 - Fiber Arts Project: Washing and Mordanting, 5 pm at Diane's house (dyanearden@gmail.com)
November 18 - Fiber Arts Project: Rinsing the Wool, 2 pm at Diane's house (dyanearden@gmail.com)
November 22 - No Meeting
November 29 - Fiber Arts Project: More spinning. Dramamine will be provided.


Activity Archive

If you would like to run an activity or teach a class at our meetings, please send an email to apfister@verizon.net. Also please email if you would like to request an activity or class for a paticular day.

Possible activities and classes:

  • Introduction to the SCA
  • Beginning Embroidery
  • Beginning Costuming
  • Embroidery for the Left Handed
  • "Your High... ur... Your Mag... ur... Your Grace!": Hats and Titles
  • Sideless Surcotes
  • Cotehardies
  • Using a drop spindle
  • Sewing Circle and Costuming Question and Answer
  • Basic Period Foods
  • So You're Going to Your First Event... Things to Know
  • Fingerloop Braiding
  • Courtly Love in the SCA
  • Sharing Your Projects
  • The Little People at Events: Family Activities
  • Discussions on Running Events (Autocrating)
  • What to do with a cloven fruit...
  • SCA Folklore

Our Events:

Courtlandslot's A&S Workshop Event, February 2, 2008.
Midsummer Merriment 2.5 , June 28, 2008.

 

 

 

 
Page Last Modified: 11-2-2007

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