RE: 1st impressions

[Karen Marsh-Lovvorn <marshk@ipas.org>]

Poster: Karen Marsh-Lovvorn <marshk@ipas.org>

I first learned about the SCA from literature I picked up at a Ren Faire
in Caid (near San Diego) right after I moved there in 1981.  It took me
awhile to track them down, but when I finally did, they were so
different than anyone I'd ever known that I was immediately hooked!
There I was, 19 years old, newly enlisted in the navy, and newly married
to a navy man who was immediately sent on a 9-month "Westpac" (Western
Pacific) cruise.  I was alone in a city I'd never been in before, & my
family was on the east coast. But our wonderful Baron, a grandfatherly
man who was a professor of Medieval & Renaissance history at UCSD, took
me under his wing, and introduced me to the world of the S.C.A.  While
we had our share of drunken revelry (what do you expect from a group of
mostly college students?), what I remember most is the friendship &
support I received from the group that became my second family.  Over
the years I've moved back & forth across country, had kids, changed
careers a couple times, and disappeared from the SCA for a LONG while,
but when I went back last summer (this time with my 12 and 16 year olds
in tow), I felt immediately at home again!

Kateryn

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mohajerin, Leila [SMTP:mohaj001@onyx.dcri.duke.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, February 19, 1999 12:03 PM
> To:	'Atlantia'
> Subject:	1st impressions
> 
> 
> Poster: "Mohajerin, Leila" <mohaj001@onyx.dcri.duke.edu>
> 
> My first contact with the SCA was in college when I went home for a
> wedding and was taken along with some friends to a post revel "sort of
> party thing". This included a bonfire with lots of alcohol passed
> amongst the guests, skinning dipping, some guy dancing in a loin
> cloth,
> and the people I knew being called by different names. 
> That was in 1984.
> Although I later knew lots of other people in the SCA (one of my
> roommates, in fact), I didn't check the SCA out again until 1990. This
> time approaching it from the scholastic side, where I felt much more
> comfortable!  
> 
> Sveva la Lucciola
> Seneschal of Kappellenberg
> > ----------
> > From: 	Julien de Montfort[SMTP:julien@spiaggia.org]
> > Reply To: 	Julien de Montfort
> > Sent: 	Friday, February 19, 1999 11:50 AM
> > To: 	scarlett goode
> > Cc: 	Merry Rose Tavern
> > Subject: 	Re: cloved fruit and chivalry
> > 
> > 
> > Poster: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>
> > 
> > > worse than unwanted kisses via cloved fruit.  In fact, when I
> first
> > >heard
> > > about the SCA (long before I joined) I thought from the tales that
> > it
> > >was
> > > some sort of drunken orgy club!  I'm happy to have had these
> images
> > 
> > No argument there.  I have yet to attend a Pennsic, and for some
> time,
> > that was predominantly because the stories I heard about it centered
> > around one of three things:
> > 
> > Heavy Combat,
> > Massive Drinking Parties, and
> > Casual Sex.
> > 
> > Now, I don't fight heavy, I don't drink, and have never put much
> stock
> > in the idea of casual sex.  Doesn't leave a lot there left to
> interest
> > me enough to make the long trip and layout the cash necessary for
> > Pennsic... ;-)
> > 
> > I realize now that Pennsic is a lot more than just those three (I
> hear
> > an occasional nifty thing can be picked up at the handful of
> merchnats
> > that are there ;->), but first impressions die hard...
> > 
> > Julien
> > 
> >
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> d'hermines
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