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The RivenSTAR Monthly

October EDITION

Volume 6, Issue 5

B A R O N Y O F R I V E N S T A R W W W . M I D R E A L M . O R G / R I V E N S T A R

Newsletter and Officer Contact Information Page 2

Business Meeting Reports Continuation of Articles from page 1

Pages 2 -5 Page 6

Halloween Party Mead Class, Demo Info, Photos

Page 7 Page 8,9

Baronial Calendar 0

Inside this issue:

The RivenSTAR Monthly

Rivenstar’s 1st Annual Day

of Dance—Exceptional! Leonie Leduc was the driving force behind this won-

derful day and many are in her

debt for her efforts. The First

Annual Day of Dance was

held on Saturday, October

25th at Stewart Center Room

302 at Purdue University.

From the success of this first

one, we know there will be

more to follow. Everyone was

saddened to hear that Her Maj-

esty was under the weather

and unable to attend. Still, the

dancing went on. The site

opened at 9:00 AM with the

first class beginning at 9:30. Rivenstar’s own Ama-

lie began the instruction with Korobushka, Road to

the Isles and Female Sailor. This was followed by

Master Godfrey teaching Hit and Misse, Cuckolds

All a Row and Glory of the West. Master Philip lead

the Italian dances with Bizzarria d’Amore and Con-

trapasso in Due. Leonie then taught her own chore-

ography of The Rivenstar. Finally Sionnain taught

Marie’s Wedding and Posties Jig. After a dinner

break which seemed to

involve many seeking out

Greek food. (Due to Pur-

due’s Homecoming, most

restaurants were very busy

but not the Parthenon.

According to Gallien, ―we

fixed that.‖) Maybe next

year Rivenstar should just

plan a Greek feast! Fi-

nally the day ended in a

ball putting to the test all

that was learned through the day. (see page 6)

October Sixth Demo at

Crawfordsville Elementary

School well

received On October 6th, Wal-

nut Elementary School

hosted Logoda Ele-

mentary School so that

both schools could en-

joy and benefit from a

wonderful Renais-

sance Faire. Several SCA members helped bring the

Middle Ages alive for these kindergarten through sixth

graders. Though difficult to attend because it was a

Monday afternoon,

Marilynde of the

Rocks, demonstrated

calligraphy. She’d ob-

tained the names of the

students beforehand

and had each one done

in calligraphy to present

as they came to her pa-

vilion. Pieter van

Doorn and Nan Astrid

of York presented a

(continued on page 6)

Rivenstar’s Dancemistress

Leonie Leduc

Baron Gintaris and Baroness

Kristiana listen while Master

Philip instructs.

Important information about this publication: This is the October, 2008 issue of the RivenSTAR, a publication of the Barony of Rivenstar of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA, Inc.). The RivenSTAR is available from Marian of Rivenstar (Marion Miller) 3340 Morgan St. West Lafayette, IN 47906. It is not a corporate publication of SCA, Inc., and does not delineate SCA, Inc. policies. Copyright © 2007 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. The RivenSTAR gratefully accepts submissions of articles and artwork. These must be copyright free and of interest to the SCA community. The editor reserves the right to edit material before publication due to content or space constraints. Artwork should be submitted in electronic format (gif or jpg files, please.) Use simple fonts like Times New Roman or Arial for text submissions. Please e-mail artwork, text submissions, and corrections to the RivenSTAR editor Marian Hryhorcova, email: [email protected] Credits: A portion of the images in this publication are protected by U.S. and Worldwide Copyright laws, and are owned by Microsoft® Publisher 2000. The Rivenstar shield was provided by Mistress Heirusalem Crystoma. Pdf conversion provided by Warder Gallien Le Cavalier de l'Ile. Officer badges can be found at the MK Chronicler’s website in the clip art section http://www.midrealm.org/chronicler/

Baron - Duke Moonwulf Starkaardhersson,

Master of Arms, OP (Michael Longcor)

Baroness - Countess Takaya Mereleone, OP (Vickie Poole)

email: [email protected]

Seneschal - Warder Gallien Le Cavalier de l'Ile (Lyle H Janney)


Knight's Marshal - Corwin Roberts (Aaron Bilodeau)


Rapier Marshal - Uaisle Malie Bean MhicAoid’ (Tammy E. Holwin)


Archery Marshal - Lady Arnora Snorradottin (Amanda

Meadows) email: [email protected]

Equestrian Marshal - Baroness Takaya Mereleone (Vickie Poole)


Herald - Lord Janusz Zawisza (Paul Radecki)


Chronicler - Marian Hryhorcova (Marion Miller)


MoAS - Olwen of Buckland (Sara Clark)


Chirurgeon - Lady Daniila of Dacia (Dana Mosher)


Exchequer - Lady Angelina Tracy (Tracy Funkhouser)


Chatelaine - Lady Marilynde of the Rocks (Mary Rusek)


Web Minister - THL Arrantxa Idazle Iruñekoa (Heather Bungard

Janney) email: [email protected]

Dance Mistress - Leonie Leduc email: [email protected]

Medieval Society of Purdue President - Amalie of Darkhorse

(Melanie Quippet) email: [email protected]

Officers of the Barony of Rivenstar

The RivenSTAR Monthly Volume 6, Issue 5 October 2008

Mondays

7:00 pm - Madrigal Choir Rehearsal

8:00 pm - Baronial Business Meetings

Held in the PMU Terrace Room or Stewart Center

See Purdue schedule for room location (subject to change)

Tuesdays

Archery Practice

Contact Lady Arnora Snorradottir


Wednesdays

8:00 pm - Heavy and Rapier Fighter Practice

Held at the Purdue Armory on Campus

Contact: Uaisle Malie Bean MhicAoid’ (Tammy E. Holwin)


More Activities!

Equestrian Practices start in the Spring, weather permitting, and

are usually held twice a month on Sunday afternoons from 1-4 pm.

Drum Practices will be held on either Tuesday or Thursday eve-

nings at the Morton Community Center. Check the Rivenstar web-

site and email list for updates.

Contact Kat at: [email protected]

Regular Weekly Activities Info


Business Meeting Notes: In interest of space

only officer highlights will be noted, though officers may have been pre-

sent with no news to report.

Monday, September 29, 2008 Gallien presiding

Event Reports: Everyone who went anywhere

this weekend, went to the Feast of the Hunter’s

Moon, though the student org. went as a group.

Officer Reports: Dance—We did it! (i.e. danced

on Sunday) And we have an event coming up!

Will need a cash box and exchange of paperwork.

Madrigals—experimenting with some new ar-

rangements

Chatelaine—Crawfordsville demo, Rocky, Pieter

and Nan are going. Pieter plans to demo armor.

Baron’s Announcement—Christmas Court is

coming. Please send local award recommenda-

tions to Wulf, Takaya or Janusz.

Herald—Report due in 2 days. If you’ve won any

awards this quarter let Janusz know. Viktor got

an award according to the Herald’s website.

Also, new people, get yourselves a name by

Christmas Court or the Baron may name you!

Student Org.—Look for an upcoming student org.

fundraiser.

A&S—nut much this week, report due end of

next month. Look for upcoming educational

seminars in Ohio. Gallien is planning a mead ma-

ing class next month.

Chronicler—The new issue of RivenSTAR is

here. Take one. Send more stuff—the plea con-

tinues.

Marshal—practice as usual 8—10 at Armory.

Archery still happens but equestrian is done for

the year.

Current Topics: Upcoming events are Christ-

mas Court slated for 12/6. For Spring event—

Takaya still contacting Cary Camp. Gallien is

checking with Ross Camp to see if later April is

available there. Best option for turnout is first

and last weekends in April.

Some discussion occurred on possible animals:

turkey (late period), bear (Russian), Raven

(literary & Viking possibilities), Stork, Cod, ―A

white fish to be named later‖, Catfish (deep fried

from ―southern‖ France, or with Okra from Af-

rica)

Reminder—Fischer’s Renn. Faire is next week-

end Oct. 5th and 6th. Also WLHS demo set for

2nd Fri in Nov.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Leonie reports: We’re Royal!

Event Reports: Sigulf and Guilianna attended Ren-

dezvous at the Bridge. Not as big as last year but

good turnout. Sigulf and Guilianna both taught

classes. Good classes were to be had and the A&S

prizes were exceptional. There was a bardic circle af-

ter feast. Ask Sigulf about Kriegsturm being ―Just a

bunch of Boy Scouts‖

Crawfordsville Demo report: About noon, 2 full con-

tact jousters from Canada were there (had just come

from Fischers’s Renn. Faire) and it was pretty good!

Each demo had it’s own pavilion. Rocky did calligra-

phy. She’d gotten the names of the students before-

hand and had all their names calliged and ready for

them. Nan & Pieter did the armor demo for K, 4, 5,

6th graders. JP was there with ballista. Marcherite

did the mortality demo. Very nice set up. See article

for more details.

Janusz did 6 shows a day drumming for belly dancers

at Fischer’s so he didn’t see too much except the fire-

eater they were next to. The Sternfeld demo was

great, they had wonderful armor. It may be increased

to 2 weekends next year.

Officer Reports: Seneschal—Gallien has Christmas

Court paperwork in hand for Dec. 6th at Cary Camp.

Exchequer—will write check for the Camp this wknd.

Chatelaine—Lunch time demo at WLHS coming up

Nov. 14th. No fighting, mostly talking.

Chirurgeon—everyone is still alive

Student Org.—nothing new

A&S—regional A&S reporting dates have changed

and no one knew. Working on getting report in.

Herald—Report in on time last week. Get award rec-

ommendations in for our royal visit on 10/25 ASAP

Chronicler—send stuff to Marian

Marshal—Authorization cards. Uber cards expire at

the end of the year. New ones are available now.

Next Tues is Sternfeld throw-down.

Current Topics: Day of Dance is Oct. 25th. Her

Majesty is planning to attend so get your award rec-

ommendations in right away just in case she is plan-

ning to hold court. We have a Royalty Room planned

and are providing her with food. Fealty swearing may

occur as well. Purdue’s Homecoming game is at noon

so lunch should be good as in all venues would not be

too crowded. There will be no fighting at this event.

Spring Event: Cary Camp is open for April 4 or 11.


Ross camp is open for April 11. April 12 is Easter

and April 4th is Grey Gargoyles, Stone Dog Inn. It

is not good to overlap a Chicago event so we voted

for April 11th. Cary Camp rate sheet indicated that

we can rent the entire camp for less than Ross

Camp. Motion carried on the vote, Cary Camp it is.

Now, what animal????

Baron’s Note: Baron Moonwulf’s annual Hallow-

een Pun Party will be at his house on Friday, Oct.

31 after 7:30. Anyone arriving before 7 will be

shot.

Monday, October 13, 2008 Gallien presiding

Event Reports: Takaya reports that she, Nan and

Pieter visited Shattered Crystal and went to the

Crystal Shamfron equestrian event. Takaya helped

Althea to Marshal and did four beginner authoriza-

tions. Pieter came in 1st and Takaya was runner up.

(Side note—they saw the Largest Ketchup Bottle in

the world, the Brook’s Ketchup Bottle while on the

trip.) Wulf, Gallien and Francoise went to Day at

the Mill in Cutler, IN. About 52 people attended

the awesome, gorgeous site; an 1858 mill restored

and made into a museum with an eclectic collection

of tool, a Conestoga Wagon and a Prairie Schooner.

Wulf said he was surprised at how many of the

tools were also laying around his own house. There

were about a half doz. heavy fighters and the same

in rapier. They also had a Kick-butt lunch for $3;

brats and herbed potatoes. The site was free for

Steren Codha to use. There were rental cabins

(really cute ones with cedar shakes and plank sid-

ing) and camping available. As much fighting and

fencing as anyone cared to do. Gnats were pretty

bad but not as bad as at Cary Camp demo a couple

of weeks back. It was just a great kind of a day.

Amalie, Briana, Corwin and Leonie went to

Mynydd Seren’s Odyssey. There were a number of

games based on the epic such as Suitors of Pene-

lope (bare-chested tourney) Cyclop’s tourney for

rapier, and a contest slicing pumpkins and coconuts

after which only 4 stitches were needed by one

lucky soul. Amalie broke a blade right at the hilt.

The Lotus Eaters was a three person melee style

game. Briana and Amalie helped out by being Si-

rens for Siren’s Song ( but the songs were on the

Order of ―Row, Row, Row Your Boat‖ and ―Rose,

Rose‖. It was very well attended and all who went had

a lot of fun. Also, according to Amalie, Feast was

amazing (Cybil was cooking) and the dancing was great.

Officer Reports: A&S—Craft’s person Faire coming

up next week and at 12th Night. Get your projects

ready.

Gallien’s mead making class is coming this weekend.

Herald—Get in award recommendations. Right now no

court has been planned for Day of Dance. Sternfeld

throw-down in tomorrow if anyone wants to join in.

Student Org.—Someone from the Red Hat Society con-

tacted Amalie. Red Hats and Purple Chaps is interested

to know if we have any equestrian events coming up.

Marshal—practice as usual

Current Topics: Day of Dance is October 25th. No

refreshment table at the moment. The event may be

small but seems to be growing quickly as word is

spreading at various events this weekend.

Demo at West Lafayette HS on Friday Nov. 14th from

11:30—1:30.

Christmas Court will be at Cary Camp. We have the

site starting at Noon on Dec. 6th.

Monday, October 20, 2008 Gallien presiding

Event Reports: Crown Tourney was this weekend.

Prince EikBrandr won the tourney. There was also a

mead making class at Gallien’s house. This included a

trip to Great Fermentations in Indy and resulted in start-

ing two, three gal. batches of sack or sweet mead.

Officer Reports: Herald—Janusz laments, ―No one

ever gets awards!‖ Start recommending! Local awards

to be presented at Christmas Court.

Exchequer—about to do quarterly report.

A&S—mead class was enjoyable. Looking forward to

this weekend (Day of Dance)

Chronicler—Pieter sent me a disc of photos from Clown

Tourney—Yea! Someone gave me something!

Knight’s Marshal—Auth cards.—get them renewed

with the Clerk of the Roster

Student Org.—Will Gold Key be at the event? Arrange

with Rocky.

Current Topics: Day of Dance. We now have a corpo-

rate sponsor for beverages. Thanks to Gallien who ar-

ranged for Coca-Cola to donate 24 cases of juices.

Please bring coolers and ice to cool down the beverages.


Chatelaine—Loaner garb went out and was greatly

appreciated for Day of Dance. Don’t for get WLHS

demo Nov 14th 11:30—1:30. It is mainly A&S ori-

ented because it is in a classroom. No fighting.

Chatelaine’s report is due at the end of this week.

Student Org. Nine people in 2 cars are planning to go

to Crystal Ball. They are not getting a Purdue vehicle

because it is too costly. Gallien said his van may be

available if everything checks out.

Exchequer = $66 for Barony from DOD. Records

were excellently kept by Troll volunteers. Quarter

day report is done. Sunday the books were audited;

they passed.

Current Topics: Pun Halloween Party—Fri night at

Wulf’s. Bring snack of choice or just yourself. Wulf

will supply soft drinks & small amt. of other bever-

ages. Arrive after 7PM. There will be pun costume

judging.

Christmas Court—Will be at Cary Camp on Dec. 6th

beginning at noon. The check was sent but Gallien

hasn’t received confirmation yet. Tracy said the

check was cashed (confirmation enough). Still need

to find out if a torch open flame is ok for a bead mak-

ing class.

Spring Event—Will be at Cary Camp. More possible

animals suggested: otter, beaver (Pieter still has one

in his pond that he would be happy for us to use!),

bear (Russian), peacock (French), serpent, duck, tur-

tle (Pieter also has those—snapping ones!), Kraken

(seafaring, Mediterranean, Norse) and Tiger (Eastern

Kingdom’s totem, Indian, Far East). Vote next week.

Pieter and Nan showed us the thank you notes from

the Crawfordsville demo.

Also something to think about—at DOD a bug was

put in Gallien’s ear about a possible Constellation

Regional Newbies A&S. Thinking classes in the

morning and demos in the afternoon. Classes such as

intro to calligraphy, intro to madrigal singing, dance

101, how to make a quick T-tunic etc. Looking at the

3rd or 4th week of Sept. Have to check so it doesn’t

coincide with Feast of Hunter’s Moon. Suggestion to

present activities that can be followed up on, i.e. ac-

tivities that are part of our more usual affairs then

later present the unique things as demos in the after-

noon. Other suggested classes were Welcome to the

SCA, terminology, Funny Hats 101 and Heraldry.

Suggested that we have a dry run on a Sat. afternoon

in Jan. (31st?) utilizing a couple of rooms in STEW.

Does anyone have a 2 wheeled dolly that could be

used to transport the beverages into Stewart Center?

We’ll check with Sigulf, maybe the Library has one

we could use. Leonie will pick up the stuff for Troll

on Wed at fighter practice. Her Majesty is planning

to come on Saturday morning. No Court is planned,

she just wants to have some fun. The Royal Room

is Stew 204. We need a guard and Pieter volun-

teered. Wulf will bring the sound system at 9 AM

and a microphone with an on/off switch. Leonie

will bring the CD player. The first class starts at

9:30 AM. Wulf will bring banners and banner

stands. Anyone else who has anything festive and

appropriate, feel free to bring it. It might be nice to

put together a little basket for Her Majesty. Also,

we should have a bin for empty plastic bottle recy-

cling. Someone needs to bring Sharpies for writing

names on bottles. The site token is a bell on a string.

Another upcoming demo: WLHS demo on 11/14

Side note: Tippecanoe County voted that as of Nov.

1st, the Fairgrounds can be a wet site in some build-

ings which can be rented for $325.

Monday, October 27, 2008 Leonie presides

Event Reports: We had an Event! Rivenstar’s

First Annual Day of Dance was a success. Three

people from the WLHS club attended as did some

Reamers in Kilts who heard Scotland the Brave be-

ing played. There was an excellent showing from

the student organization and the Barony. A profit of

$66 was made! Many out of towners want it to stay

an annual event. Found out toward the end that

there was an option of mood lighting—could have

done the ―high school dance thing‖ It was a very

successful event with lots of help for clean-up and

set-up. Next year we have to not have it on home-

coming weekend though. Maybe next year we

should just announce that feast will be Greek! All

the restaurants in Chancy Hill were pretty busy at

dinner except the Parthenon. It was empty. We

fixed that!

We are planning to send a thank-you scroll to our

sponsor Coca– Cola.

Officer Reports: Herald—get in local award rec-

ommendations before Christmas Court.

Chronicler—Next issue will be out next week. Send

in stories and pictures.


(continued from

Page 1) demo on

arms and armor.

They had students

try on mail and ex-

plained about the

―original arms race‖

when better arms

begat better armor

which begat better arms. Lady Marcharite presented

the mortality demo. Jean Paul Pierrepont had a bal-

lista to demonstrate. About noon, two full contact

jousters arrived fresh from the Fischer’s Renn. Faire.

Teachers and crafts-persons helped to fill out the

ranks. As a thank you, the SCA members were all

given a commemorative T-shirt and a gift certificate

for Applebee’s Restaurants. A few days later, a

whole sheaf of thank you notes arrived at Pieter’s

door with drawings and notes of things that the chil-

dren learned.

(continued from Page 1)

More photos

from Rivenstar’s

First Annual Day

of Dance

3rd Quarter Heraldic Report for the Barony of Rivenstar, re-

spectfully submitted this 1 October, Anno Societatis XLIII

(being 2008 C.E.) by Lord Janusz Zawisza, Rivenstar Pur-

suivant.

At a Simple Day in the Country, Adam MacAoidh received a

Cavendish Knot.

Yours in Service,

Lord Janusz Zawisza, Rivenstar Pursuivant

SCA member #93712 (exp. 31 August, 2010)

Your Story Here!

Remember the RivenSTAR has

become a monthly publication so

send your news, photos, drawings,

poems and research to

Your Chronicler


Annual Halloween Pun Party Friday night Oct. 31 there

were moans and groans at

Wulf’s house as some of the

best and worst puns were

presented. Moira won the

contest

with her

Devil’s

Advocate. Other contestants were:

Kat as Her Own Paradigm, Emil as

a Software Pirate, Leonie and

Amalie were Brittany’s Peers,

Danny was All

Washed Up,

Marian was the Vicked Vitch with

a Vest & her lord Tom was All

Right, Erin Was the Dark Force

and John was Just a Red. After the

contest, there was a boisterous sing

-a-long ending with ―Green Bay

Tea‖ (more photos page 8)

Oyez! Oyez!

Annual Baronial Christmas Court

December Sixth

At Cary Boy Scout Camp

6286 State Road 26 East

This is a dry site.

Join in the Classes, Feast and Dancing

Site opens at noon.

Gallien Presented a Mead

Making Class October 15th It all started when Gallien got a line on some thin

honey for a good price. What to do with 54 pounds of

honey? Mead of course! And he was nice enough to

teach Olwen, Sigulf, Gwen, Marian and Kat about

making it too. The day started with some instruction in

the basics of fermentation. Next, everyone piled into

Gallien’s van for a field trip to Great Fermentations in

Indy which sells everything for wine, beer and of

course mead making. After a quick detour to Burger

King, they drove back to Lafayette where they pro-

ceeded to wash & sterilize the equipment then heat the

water, add the honey and yeast then start the fermenta-

tion process. A sweet or sack mead was decided on

and two batches made. Each batch was done a little

differently with notations to see if adding the extra

honey at the beginning or during the process makes a

difference. Last report from Gallien was that both

batches were burbling nicely.


Help Needed at Demo for

West Lafayette Junior Senior

High School Medieval Soci-

ety on Friday, November

14th from 11:45 to 1:30

(please note time change

from earlier

announcements).

Demo in Room 2227

All participants need to

check in at the Senior High

Office upon arrival.

More Pun Party Photos:

Special Thanks to John Skinner for the photos.


Greetings Unto the Barony of Rivenstar from Master Philip White!

I wanted to send thanks for hosting such a wonderful event and my regards to Lady Leonie for having spear-

headed the idea in the first place. It was a great plan to start with and much fun in execution. It was great to

meet so many dancers and I really enjoyed teaching.

I’ve been telling everyone I can how much fun it was. I hope you are already making plans to hold the event

next year. Please pass on my thanks to the populace. The group’s effort to help host us was more than gener-

ous. Events like this only help grow the dance community.

Hopefully, I will be able to bring even more people down along with me next time.

Your Servant to Command,

~p.w.

Equestrian Photos from ―Almost‖ Clowne Tourney (see related ar-

ticle in meeting minutes September 8th of the September issue.)

Special Thanks to Pieter Van Doorn for the Photos


Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Nov. 30 Dance 12—3 STEW 306

1 Madrigals (7) & Business mtg. (8) STEW 320

2 3 Armored practice 8—10 Purdue Ar-mory.

4 5 6 Christmas Court at Cary Camp Noon—?

7 Dance 12—3 STEW 306

8 Madrigals (7) & Business mtg. (8) Terrace Room

9 10 Armored prac-tice 8—10 Purdue Armory

11 12 13


15Madrigals (7) & Business mtg. (8) Terrace Room


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21 Dance 12—3 South Tower


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28 29 30 31 Jan 1 2 Clip art on this pg. from Microsoft Publisher 2007

December 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Oct 26 Oct 27Madrigals (7) & Business mtg. (8) Terr. Rm

Oct 28 Oct 29 Armored practice 8—10 Purdue Armory

Oct 30 Oct 31 Halloween Pun Party 7:30 at Wulf’s House

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3 Madrigals (7) & Business mtg. (8) STEW 320

4 5 Armored practice 8—10 Purdue Ar-mory

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9 Dance 12-3 STEW 306



13 14 Demo at WLHS 11:45—1:30

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16 Dance 12—3 South Tower



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