Month: March 2025

Archery Muster at the Castle! (April 13th)

The Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands invites you to a Regional Muster celebrating Archery, Thrown Weapons, and Arts & Sciences at the Castle home of Their Graces. Byron and Ariella (755 Stonegate Dr, Wexford, PA 15090-7593) on Sunday, April 13th. This is the day after Coronation. The muster will begin at 11:00 in the morning and continue until 4:00 pm.

The archery and thrown weapons ranges will be open at 11:00 am and archery from the roof will begin at 1:00 pm. Thrown Weapons will be paused during the roof shoot. The Barony’s loaner gear will be available.

Please bring something for a potluck. We’re going to be there all day, so let’s eat.
NOTE: Due to Passover, please do not bring food or drink with wheat, oats, rye, barley or spelt in them. Legumes, rice and corn are fine.

Their Graces have asked that you dress in garb for the day.

Parking is along the road, however Their Graces would like to remind you to use space efficiently on the street, diagonally where possible, and heed the parking signs.

Fencing practice cancelled this Sunday (3/26) to support Ballachlagan vs Brendoken

Greetings, Debatable Lands Fencers! This Sunday, fencing practice will be cancelled so that we may support our friends from Ballachlagan in their charitable endeavors toward our Midrealm neighbors in Brendoken.

If you want to carpool with folks, let me know, and I’ll do my best to match-make.

The event starts at noon in the Akron Turner Club.

Details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1144453504059788

Call for Letters – Barony Webminister

Greetings!

My first term as Webminister for the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands ends as of the April 2 business meeting. I have enjoyed serving these past two years, and am fully committed to serving a second 2-year term, but I am required by courtesy and policy to request letters of intent for the position.

If you have the necessary skills and experience, please consider submitting a letter of intent for the April business meeting. For technical skills, you should have a moderate understanding of HTML, and experience with PHP, WordPress, and cPanel is a huge help. The role mainly involves being able to promptly respond to email requests to publish new information to the site, blog, and Barony calendar. I should also add that I am still in the process of migrating the existing website and e-mail systems to the Aethelmearc kingdom server, so taking on this role now would involve working closely with me and both the outgoing and incoming kingdom webministers to complete this transition.

Please include your qualifications, relevant experience, and vision for the role in your letter of intent. As a reminder, in order to be considered for the position, you must be a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism in good standing and a member of the Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands.

Submit your letter of intent via email to Their Excellencies, Baronesses Violeta and Prima (baronage@debatablelands.org), and to our Seneschal Ceindrich (seneschal@debatablelands.org) by April 1, 2025.

Yours in Service,
Niall mac Raedwulf, Current Webminister of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands

Outdoor Archery Practice returns this Sunday!

Spring is in the air, which means it’s time to shake off the dust and let your arrows fly!

I’ll be at our regular outdoor site in Highland Park (the park near the corner of Washington Blvd and Allegheny River Blvd) from 11 am to 2 pm this Sunday, March 23, planning to have the range open by 11:30 am. Loaner gear will be available.

NOTE: The other martial practices (heavy, rapier, thrown weapons) will continue to meet at the winter location (Ace’s Ax Throwing in Homestead) until sometime in April. Watch this feed for updates!

Yours in Service,
Niall mac Raedwulf, Captain of the Archers

Debatable Lands St. Patrick’s Day Parade Demo

We will be marching in the Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day Parade tomorrow, 3/15.

All are welcome to come and show the might and prowess of the barony. No live weapons. We will be fencing and fighting our way through downtown Pittsburgh. There will be a float for those who would prefer to ride. If you can’t join us, tune in and watch!

We will be lining up in the strip district at 9:30. Location will be posted to the event on Facebook and on the barony’s Discord when we know where we are. Please contact Lady Isabel or Lady Arthes if you have more questions, or need a different contact method.

First intermediate-level fencing lesson this Sunday, March 16th at 12pm

This Sunday will be the first in our series of monthly intermediate fencing lessons! The topic for this month is: Guards, Openings, and Feints. We’ll begin by analyzing a few different guards, looking at the openings they present, then we’ll discuss the whys and hows of feints, and finally, we’ll practice using feints in a fight. We’ll get started around 12pm and wrap up around 12:45pm.

Fiber Arts Guild March Meeting

Fragment, Japan, Nara


Our next Fiber Arts Guild Meeting will be on Monday, March 24th, 7pm, at 5167 Rosecrest Dr, Pittsburgh, PA.

This meeting will be March Mending Madness!

Featuring a class taught on how to repair holes and tears in woven cloth with sashiko mending and no-experience-needed sewing taught by THLady Elinor.

We’ll also look at historical mending techniques (bring an example to share if you have one that inspires you).

Feel free to bring cute scraps of cloth and darning yarn to swap and share for mending.