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September 2017 Chanticleer The Chanticleer Monthly Newsletter of Barony Beyond the Mountain September, 2017 AS52 The History of Our Barony In this (hopefully) first in a series of articles about the history of the Barony, Lady Evaine ferch Brangwen interviews our founding Baron, Balin the Fairhaired. Balin showing mail at The Cloisters. Sometime in the 1970s. Dale Plummer/Balin the Fairhaired, founding baron of the Barony Beyond the Mountain, and his wife Sharon/Morgana Eressea di Sanpere, joined the SCA with Dale's brother, John Plummer/Mitchell Gray Cloak, in Seattle in 1970. John Plummer learned about the SCA through the writings of a favorite author, Poul Anderson, then a member of the SCA in California. John, Dale and Sharon discovered what would later become the Barony of Madrone in Seattle and joined. Events were held in the arboretum at the University of Washington, where they both were students. Balin started to fight, wearing an 18-gauge propane tank helmet. “The blows were taps compared to what you see today,” Balin said. “It was a lot of fun.” When he graduated in 1971, Balin and Morgana moved back to his hometown, Woodbury, CT in 1971. They contacted the SCA to find the local group and quickly learned there wasn't one. “I was told there was a man in Meriden who wanted to start a group, but he didn't do anything,” Balin recalled. “So we decided to do it.” Continued on page 5 Baronial Officers: Baron & Baroness - Baron Dorigen of Lewes, [email protected], and Mistress Eloise of Coulter, [email protected] Seneschal – Marcus Allectius Felix, [email protected] Deputy – Mistress Elizabeth Vynehorn, [email protected] & Lady Leandra deLeon, [email protected] Chatelaine – Lady Gwenllian ferch Llewellyn, [email protected] Deputy – Sybill Teller, [email protected] Chronicler – Lady Johanna de Glastingburi, [email protected] Company Captain of Archers – Rumhann MacDuibhsithe an Bhlog Seolta, [email protected] Exchequer – Lady Ciara McRobbie, [email protected] Deputy - Lord Gwilym of Fflint, [email protected] Herald – Mistress Camma an Daraich, [email protected] Knight Marshall – Lord Angus Gove MacKinnon, [email protected] Marshal of Fence – Lord Grimolfr Skulason, [email protected] Marshal of Thrown Weapons – Vacant Mistress of Arts & Science – Lady Alys du Bois, [email protected] Minister of the List – Lord Mark of the Red Hand, [email protected] Web Minister – Lady Sisuile Butler, [email protected] Youth Marshal - Vacant Combat Arts Fencing NOTE: Practices are subject to change without Sundays, 1-3 pm – 29 Florida Road, East notice. Please call ahead. Haddam, CT – Adult rapier only – Contact Grimolfr at 860-682-2526. Mondays, 7-9 p.m. at Mary Elizabeth McGrath Archery Educational Center, 130 Elm Street, Millbury, MA (Quintavia). CT: BBM – By appointment Sundays, 3-5 at Thursdays, 7:30-10:00 p.m., Keefe Community the Norwich Archery Club. Contact Siobhan Center, Hamden, CT (hosted by Barony of 860-859-2773. Dragonship Haven). Contact the Fencing CT: BBM - Tuesdays – 5:30 p.m. Burlington, Marshal (Christophel) @ CT - Dorigen & Eloise's at 17 Bittersweet Lane, fence@dragonshiphaven. eastkingdom.org. Burlington, CT. Contact Dorigen at 860-673- 2240. Heavy-List Fighting CT: Dragonship Haven: Sundays 12-3 pm (in season, weather permitting) Oxford, CT. Tuesdays, 7-10 pm, Middlefield Federated [email protected] Church, 402 Main Street, Middlefield, CT. MA: Carolingia – Carlisle, MA: Sundays from Contact: Áine at [email protected] 10 am to 1 pm - Archery practice runs year Wednesdays, 7 pm, Barony of Bergental at round, by Master Peter the Red, at his home at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 455 Island Pond 94 Laurelwood Drive, Carlisle, MA. All are Rd., Springfield, MA. Contact Knight Marshall welcome and loaner equipment is available. of Barony of Bergental for more information. Contact Peter at Thursdays, 8-10 p.m., Keefe Community [email protected] or call 978- Center, Hamden, CT, hosted by Barony of 287-0808. Dragonship Haven). Contact the marshal at MA: Quintavia - (Worcester County; Central [email protected]. Mass): Sunday from 1-3 pm weather permitting. Rozi and Brokk’s, 472 Gleasondale Road, Stow, MA. Thrown Weapons Practice MA: Smoking Rocks - Wednesdays 5:30- 7:30 pm and Fridays 6-8 pm – Trader Jan’s, 1st & 3rd Sunday, 64 Orchard St, Vernon, CT. 288 Plymouth Avenue, Fall River, MA. Lane Contact [email protected] for times. fee is $8. Loaner gear is available. Saturdays, 9-12 Aschehyrst, 258 Edgell Rd, RI: Tobyn’s practice: Practice is open by Framingham, MA. Contact Symon of appointment. Website has current information: Barnesdale, thrown-weapons- www.baronyofthebridge.eastkingdom.org. [email protected] Contact Tobyn 401-741-9130 or Radagast 401-741-9067. Youth Fighter Practice Tuesdays, 6:30 pm-8:00 pm at Middlefield Federated Church, 402 Main Street, This is the September 2017 issue of The Chanticleer, a publication of the Barony Beyond the Mountain of the Society for Creative Middlefield, CT. Contact Aine at Anachronism, Inc. (SCA, Inc.). The Chanticleer is available from Jane [email protected] Brezzo, 146 Prospect Street, Glastonbury, CT 06033. It is not a corporate publication of SCA, Inc., and does not delineate SCA, Inc. policies. Copyright © 2011 Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. For information on reprinting photographs, articles, or artwork from this publication, please contact the Chronicler, who will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of our contributors Baronial Champions: Archery Champion: Jonathan Buchanon Baronial Election Fencing Champion: Sir Arnwult Aethelreding News! Heavy Weapons Champion: Lord Mark the Red Hand Greetings to the barony! Thrown Weapons Champion: Lord Rumhann MacDuibhsithe an Bhlog Seolta The ballots for our election will be mailed out during the first week of September, and a notice will be posted to the listserv and social media sites when the ballots are sent out. If you reside within BBM Meetings: and do not receive your ballots within a week of the mailing notice, please contact me at Baronial: Next meeting is September 18, 2017 at [email protected] to arrange for a New Britain Public Library, 20 High St, New Britain, replacement ballot. CT. Contact Seneschal Marcus Allectius Felix, The ballots will be due in mid-October (check the [email protected] ballot itself for the exact date). Please note that the return date listed on the ballot is the date by which the ballot must be received, and *not* the date by which it must be postmarked. Because you will be Arts & Science mailing the ballots to Pennsylvania, please mail the ballots at least 3 mailing days before the deadline, in order to give the USPS enough time to deliver Middle-Eastern Dance your ballot. Sundays, 1-4 p.m., Authur Murray Dance Studio, Once the deadline for the ballots has passed, all Glen Lochen Marketplace, 39 New London ballots will be counted within 2 weeks by the Branch Polling Deputy and forwarded to the EK Turnpike, Glastonbury, CT. Contact Mistress Su’ad rd (Nancy Barrett) at 860-228-6933 (before 10 p.m.); Seneschal and Crown (allowing 3 week for postal [email protected]. mail). After receiving the results, the Crown typically takes 1 month to consider the preference/ Dance recommendation expressed by the barony. They may have questions or need more information. If First Tuesday of month – 7:30-9:30 pm - Camelot they deem it necessary, they make take additional Co-Housing 46 Sawyer Hill Rd. Berlin, MA time in announcing their decision. Hopefully, we (Quintavia) should have heirs by the end of November or beginning of December. Sewing If at any time you have questions about the election or the process, please do not hesitate to contact Sewing & Throwing is the 3rd Sunday, bring me at [email protected] or at your string based projects, hang out, throw [email protected]. sharp objects at wood. 64 Orchard St, Vernon, In service, CT Contact [email protected] for times. Mistress Elizabeth Vynehorn The History of the Barony – continued from Page 1 Richard of Rideja, served as first baronial seneschal. Richard was best known for creating expert replica medieval coins of both pewter and silver, and later became a member of the Order of the Laurel. Balin served as both baron and seneschal for a time before Richard took the position. Dale Plummer went to graduate school at the University of Connecticut in Storrs in 1972-73 for medieval studies. He didn't recall when he first met Salaamallah the Corpulent, but it was at UConn. “When did I not know Salaamallah?” he said. Salaamallah joined early on and soon became baronial seneschal. The barony continued to grow, with the cantons of Ravenhill in the western part of the state, Fennbrycg, centered at UConn, and Dragonship Haven in the southwestern portion of the state. The barony hosted a Crown Tourney on Balin in armor: taken at a school demo. the same field across from his mother's house in Woodbury. Balin entered. They organized the first tourney in June 1972 on “I didn't do too badly,” he said. “I fought pretty a field in Woodbury across the street from his well, but I was eliminated by Akbar, who became mother's house. It turned into their baronial king.” investiture. Eight to ten people attended, including Prior to fighting Akbar, Balin defeated one John, Dale and Sharon, a couple of women from combatant with a “classic” blow to the head, he Waterbury and an artist who created posters to recalled. But at the same time, the man slashed advertise the event. Balin's knee. He continued fighting, but the knee East Kingdom Seneschal El of the Two Knives grew worse.
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