<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Tivar wrote:<br><br>>A third of a century ago, on a cold, wet Saturday night, history was <br>>made. During court at an event called the Tournament of Chivalry, Her <br>>Highness Tessa of the Gardens announced that she and Prince Simonn of <br>>Amber Isle were creating an award to recognize prominent rapier <br>>fighters in the Principality of Ansteorra. That was the beginning of <br>>the Order of the White Scarf, and to the best of my knowledge, it was <br>>the first official recognition of any sort for rapier fighters in the SCA.<br><br>I was fiddling around the edge of the SCA back then. But that day I decided that I was in the SCA for real, in Ansteorra for real, and in SCA fencing for real, and that I wanted to wear be a White Scarf.<br><br>I've been a WS for over 31 years, and I still want to be a White Scarf.<br><br>There's a line in the movie <span style="font-style: italic;">The Rookie</span>: "Do you know what we get to do today? We get to play baseball!"<br><br>The most exciting part of any event I go to, after more than 33 years of SCA events is still, "Do you know what we get to do today? We get to fence!"<br><br>Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin</font></font></font></body><pre>
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