[Ansteorra] history of SCA placenames

[Kevin Varner]

Greetings!

In 1984, I arrived in San Angelo (Goodfellow AFB) from Drachenwald and found 
no SCA group in the area. My lady and I obtained a packet from the Kingdom 
Seneschal on how to start a group. Little beknownst to us, on the other side 
of town at Angelo State University a similar effort was taking place. 
Apparently our letter arrived first and Mistress Ariela (sp?) directed them 
to get in touch with us. In the end a small contingent from ASU and military 
got together to form the Incipient Shire of Three Lochs (based on the 3 
so-called lakes in the area). We probably should have registered as a 
College as the BOD expects those to shut down periodically (student 
schedules and all) and my Army teaching schedule mucked up things for a 
while, but we persevered. We had many problems due to fluctuating 
populations and trying to maintain a full slate of officers. We held several 
events, many of them in conjunction with Black Lake. Our first event was 
"co-sponsoring" an event with the then Shire of Bonwicke. I believe it was a 
war with the Outlands (I've slept since then and low on sleep now) at the OC 
Fisher Reservoir. When Aerin and left in 1988 they were looking better, but 
still reaching. They had some troubles in 89/90, but overcame them. I am 
glad that they have made it.

As to the name--the College of Herald made us jumps through I do not know 
how many hoops. We went from Three Lochs to Trelochs to Treloch. (All 
supposedly in the interests of language continuity.) When I left it was 
still Treloch.

I hope this helps and that my memory hasn't gone out the window.

HL Duncan MacConacher
2nd Seneschal of Treloch (San Angelo, TX)

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>
> Ok I actually have a question for anyone who remembers.
> See, when I first started out in the SCA Trelac had a different name and I 
> was
> wondering if anyone new what the other name was?
> Now as I remember (and my memory is sometimes based on bad information.)
> the "active" shire was being disbanded for reasons I never quite knew, but
> people in the region still wanted a shire there and some moved to San 
> Angelo
> and thus Trelac was born.
> Now at the time this was happening myself and a friend joined the SCA but 
> mostly played
> seperately from the shire so the full story was never really brought to 
> light.
>
> Can anyone help? This was around '88 or '89 time frame.
>
> Faolon
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