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:
- Take Route 13 North to Cortland
- Continue straight onto Route 281 at the A&W Restaurant.
- Turn right onto Groton Ave/Route 222
- Turn left onto North Main Street/Route 11
- 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:
- Take Route 81 South to the Cortland/Ithaca exit (Rt 13)
- At the bottom of the exit take a right
- Take a right onto Clinton Ave
- Turn right onto North Main Street
- 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:
Youth fighting will resume in Spring 2009.
Friday evenings at 7 pm.
4549 locust Ave, Homer, NY 13077
If you need directions contact Christine/Donna at 607-597-9757.
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:
September 2008
September 4 : Preserving and Using Herbs (a group discussion), scheduling take II
September 11: Business as usual, no A&S scheduled
September 18 : Recipe Exchange (aka Another failed cookbook session), bring laptops, pick out recipies to try for the meet and greet
September 25 : Felting - Autumn
October 2008
October 2 : Pumpkinfest demo stuff
October 3 - 4 : Pumpkinfest
October 9 : meet and greet, bring food
October 16 : Militant Orders, Scott
October 23 : Two person fingerlooping, Donna
October 30 : Recipe/cookbook followup (aka Another failed cookbook session II)
November 2008
Nov 6 : Candle Making (cool teacher lady herbalist), slight fee to be determined
Nov 13 : Dance Class
Nov 20 :
Nov 27 : No Meeting
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.