[Ansteorra] "what was your first event"

[Richard Morgan]

My first event was the first Ansteorrian Crown Tourney. I believe it was in 
1979. It was held at a beautiful but muddy grove of pecan trees in Bryn 
Gwlad. I wore a white peasant shirt belted over my jeans and square toe 
boots. At the time I was on the South West Texas State Fencing Team so I 
competed in the Rapier List. I broke three of my best Russian epee blades. 
The first exposure to the people of the SCA was a young lady (Megan 
Glinleven) and a young man (The Dread Pirate Trey Lucien). I had just 
crawled out of my pup tent when I noticed them walking towards me, they were 
loudly discussing who had seen me first , and who's I was to be; I was 
praying that the young lady would win. I then made the mistake, on the 
advice of Joeffrey de Ambergien, of asking Sir Balthazar of Endor, a 
Freudian Zen Druid, a question about Celtic symbolism. This took quite a 
while. That night I was drawn to the tavern, a GP medium (a green army tent 
barely the size of my living room), that a bunch of people had crowded in 
to, and were drinking and singing IRA songs led by Finn Kelly O'Donnell (he 
wasn't a Knight yet then).On Sunday after I had my car pulled out of the mud 
I packed my bags and went home. It had all been Magic!