SC - Re: year SCA was created

[jeffrey s heilveil]

On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> > >>My Lady Aoife:
> > >>             Not meaning to seem picky,this is AS XXXII but
> > >>your web page says :
> > >>
> > >>>>created in the ****80's**** 
> > >
> > Actually the SCA was created WAY before the 'early' 1980's.  I knew the
> > SCA
> > had been around for at least almost 25 years because June 1999 we are
> > having our 25th anniversary celebration for the founding of the Dominion
> > of
> > Myrkfaelinn.  So I checked www.sca.org, and I discovered it was even older
> > than that.  Here's the paragraph snipped down:
> > 
> > "Since 1966, the society has grown to include over 20,000 paying members
> > in
> > the US, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, Okinawa,
> > New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland, and
> > Spain."
> > 
> > 	Angeline
> > 
> > >Well, yes, I see your point, but most of the folks looking at my page
> > will
> > >be directed there from mundane sources (ie: the cooking pod at tripod, of
> > >which I seem to be the only HISTORICAL cook). They'd have no clue what AS
> > >XXXII means.
> > >
> > >>
> > 
> AS = Anno Societais = In the Year of the Society.  My spelling of Latin is
> atrocious, so I will ask someone to correct it.
> 
> If I remember this correctly, the SCA derives from Diane Paxson's medieval
> birthday party held May 1, 1964.  The party was so enjoyable that
> participants continued to have events in medieval garb and organized the
> SCA.  The organization was incorporated in 1966 and held a demo at the World
> SF Convention in LA that year.  The SCA has maintained May 1 as its official
> birthday.
> 
> Bear
> 

And the first "event" at that birthday party?  Straight from the Pale (I
should know, I only put the mailing label on a ton of them...)  An
organized (and much to the surprise of the police, they asked permission
first) March in protest of the 20th century.

Bogdan

ps. Marion Zommerman Bradley was there.

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