AS LV May 2020 Volume 34, Issue 5 The official Newsletter of the Barony of Bright Hills Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish / Hungarian, 1542-1600, and Georg Bocskay, Hungarian, died 1575. Fly, Dragonfly, Pear, Carnation and Insect, 1561-1562; illumination added 1591-1596. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 20, fol. 7. Table of Contents A Note from Your Chronicler A Note from your Chronicler ................................2 I hope you are all doing well in our time at home. I am keeping busy bringing you my Alliteration Greetings from your Excellencies .........................3 Adventure and my reading of the Thousand Nights Officer Reports .........................................................4 and One Night each day; making masks and hosting a Message from Pennsic Mayor ................................5 Virtual Revenge of the Stitch-Plague Edition. Beyond that because Pennsic has been canceled for this year I Atlantia Royal Archery ............................................6 am no longer preparing Bardic or performances so I Atlantia Calendar .....................................................7 am looking for new activities. How about you? May Events ................................................................7 Yours in Service, Story and Song, Curiosity Corner: Calligraphy Ink .........................8 Lady Scholastica Joycors Virtual Atlantia-Summer University ...................10 Chronicler of Bright Hills Lore from the Larder: Baked Pears .....................11 Control the Plague of 2020 Bards Corner: Secrets from the Enchanted Pear Stay Home • Stay Safe Tree ........................................................................12 Practices & Guild Gatherings ...............................15 Electronic Connection ............................................15 Regnum ...................................................................16 Art Credits for this issue Baron and Baroness on page 3 by Lady Dagný austkona Lore from the Larder image is from The Luttrell Bright Hills Banners created by Lady Scholastica Joycors All pictures/clipart are royalty and copyright free, references are found at the end of articles, next to images and/or signed permissions on file. The Yeoman is a publication of the Barony of Bright Hills of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. The Yeoman is available from Mylinda Butterworth at [email protected]. Subscriptions are free as all publications are available electronically. This newsletter is not a corporate publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., and does not delineate SCA policies. © Copyright 2020, Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. For information on reprinting letters and artwork from this publication, please contact the Barony of Bright Hills Chronicler, who will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of our contributors. All rights to individual works are retained by the original authors, photographers, and artists. Submission Guidelines: Articles and artwork (including photographs) and all required signed releases are due by the 25th of the month prior to publication. For articles, pictures, and all other submissions to The Yeoman, please submit to the Noble Scholastica Joycors at [email protected]. Email submissions are preferred; please submit using rich text format (RTF) or as an attached MS-Word file (DOC) for all articles. The Yeoman page 2 The Barony of Bright Hills reetings unto the populace of Bright Hills. Your Baron and Baroness continue to think of everyone, and we hope is that all are doing well in these times of isolation. With limited interaction we hope that everyone is finding some way to maintain your spirit. As this G continues, we appreciate those that are showing their arts via the magic box and “book of faces”. Our thoughts are with our chosen family. Atlantia has a new King and Queen, Anton and Luned. Vivat Atlantia! As we continue to work on projects and try to share them with others, we find joy in the projects that are being shared. We look forward to the end of this and gathering with our family and celebrating all that we have done in these times of isolation. The Baroness and I wish that everyone stays safe. As this continues, remember the Bright Hills motto, “Only the best from Bright Hills.” We ask that you carry this with you everyday in interactions with everyone as others will react differently to the stress of the current events. We hope that all strive to be the best and remember those that are under new levels of anxiety because of the isolation and the pandemic. Again, we look forward to the day we can safely gather together and celebrate all that is Bright Hills. Yours in Service, Godai Katsunaga and Wanda the Wanderer Baron and Baroness of Bright Hills The Yeoman page 3 Officer Reports March Officer Reports: Seneschal: Lady Freydis sjona (Casey Keener) Chatelain Baroness Barbara Giumaria diRoberto (Barbara Kriner) Baron and Baroness Chronicler Godai Katsunaga and Wanda the Wanderer Lady Scholastica Joycors (MyLinda Butterworth) (Gordon & Wanda Lee Kinnie) The Baron will be hosting our first online meet up this The Yeoman continues to go out on time. Saturday (April 25) from 7-8:30 pm, for a Baronial Meet Exchequer & Greet (+Bardic). Lady Clara von Wonsiedel (Michelle England) Guild Reports No Report. Herald Cooks Guild Master Richard Wyn (Richard Muti) Greetings from Jeanne Tenneur de Bec, Mistress of the Bright Hills Cooks’ Guild. Herald has nothing new to report No Report Knights Marshall Lord Randver Askmadr (Randy Feltman) No meetings will occur until the stay-home initiative on Nothing to report. the Corona Virus has been lifted. MoAS . Mistress Tatiana Ivanovna of Birchwood Keep (Claudia Any corrections or additions to these minutes should be Bosworth) sent to the Chronicler at [email protected] No report. Minister of the List Lord Alexander Fowler (Hunter Fowler) No Report. Youth Minister VACANT Baronial Steward VACANT Webminister Lady Dagný austkona ( Rachael Knoblauch) No change from March report. We are currently considering the potential of setting up electronic meetings moving forward. Vivats to our New King & Queen Anton & Luned photo from Kingdom of Atlantia The Yeoman page 4 Message from Pennsic 49 Mayor Sir Gregory Lochswan (OP) G’Day Everyone, COVID-19 is touching all of our lives and at this time our primary concern is the safety and well-being of our Pennsic Attendees, Cooper’s Lake Family and Staff:, the entire Community of people in and around Cooper’s Lake Campground we interact and depend upon, and our numerous vendors who supply our event. They are all part of the “Pennsic-War-Family”. When I took on the office of Mayor of Pennsic 49, I promised to, and was entrusted with, the welfare and safety of the entire Pennsic Family. It is therefore with great sadness that I must inform you today that, we have decided to postpone Pennsic 49, scheduled for July 24, 2020 through August 9, 2020 to July 30, 2021 through August 15, 2021. This postponement will come as heartbreaking news to many of you – and it has been an exceedingly difficult decision for us to make. Since the first Pennsic Wars at Cooper’s Lake we have been so proud to welcome people from all over the Knowne World to beautiful lands of Æthelmearc, but this year, sadly we cannot gather together as before. As many of you have read in my previous COVID-19 updates, the impact of this terrible pandemic has effects that reach far past just those that attend Pennsic War. I will not go into all our considerations here again, you can all read my previous two posts that outline many of the factors we considered before making this decision. However, on this one occasion the emotion of Pennsic needed to be removed and the hard decision made. It has been arranged with Cooper’s Lake Management, that those who have preregistered for Pennsic 49 may have their registrations rolled over to 2021. If you desire a refund, please go to www.cooperslake.com and log into your pre-registration account. Even if we cannot be together this July, we remain optimistic that the situation will soon improve. I know we are all very worried about the impact that COVID-19 is having on our loved ones and daily lives. My Pennsic team and I send you our very best wishes. We cannot wait to share time together at Cooper’s Lake again with you all. Yours, Sir Gregory of Loch Swan Mayor Pennsic 49 The Yeoman page 5 P O S T P O N E D till Sept 18-20 The Yeoman page 6 Atlantian Calendar of Events for more details go to http://www.atlantia.sca.org/events/atlantia-calendar-events May 2020 2 Atlantian Spring Crown Tournament (R) Atlantia Leesburg, VA 9 On Target Lochmere Annapolis, MD 9 Market Day Charlesbury Crossing Charlotte, NC 14-17 AEthelmearc War Practice AEthelmearc Slippery Rock, PA 15-17 Hawkwood Baronial Birthday XV-An Investiture (Q) Hawkwood Waynesville, NC 22-25 Ruby Joust IX (R) Caer Mear Courtland, VA 29-31 Highland River Melees Highland Foorde Hagerstown, MD June 2020 5-7 SAAD- Oh, For Cog's Sake - CANCELLEDC A N C E L L E DCrois Brigte Boonville, NC 6 Skewered -CANCELLED Roxbury Mill Gaithersburg, MD 13 Summer University - VIRTUAL Atlantia ONLINE 19-21 Tourney of the Sun - CANCELLED Charlesbury Crossing Apex, NC 19-21 A Mid-Summer's Tale - CANCELLED Border Vale Keep Trenton, SC 20 Storvik Novice and Unbelt Tournament (R) Storvik College Par, MD 27 Lochmere Arrow Shoot Stierbach Spotsylvania, VA 26-28 Old School War Practice Marinus Clarkesville, VA 27 Fiber Arts Workshop Nottinghill