[Ansteorra] "what was your first event"

[Richard Morgan]

Oops, I forgot to sign that. I also just remembered, at night instead of 
wearing the peasant shirt, I wore my Druid robes that I had made for a 
costume party a few years earlier. They made me feel much more period.

Sir Richard ap 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!
>
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