To Valhalla! (Or The Afterworld Of Your Choice)

The Canton of Lightwood is no more! After much thought and consideration, the founders of the Canton, Her Serenity Baroness Adelindis filia Gotefridi (Liz) and The Honourable Baron Karl Faustus von Aachen (Eric), are sad to announce that the Kingdom Seneschal approved their request to properly close the Canton of Lightwood. Why? Two reasons: time and energy. They didn’t have enough of either. Both suffered COVID recently, and are not fully recovered; thanks to Long COVID, the gift that keeps on sucking, it may be quite some time before they are. The time required to maintain and expand an SCA …

Lightwood’s Plan

On Sunday 30 May, we had a lovely brunch at DS Coffee House Cafe and met some locals who are interested in helping us get Lightwood going again. We now have a plan! Friday 4 June from 7pm join us at Kraken Hall (in the Hobart showgrounds) for the monthly heavy tournament. Meet some more medieval people and see a bit of how the wider Barony operates. Also present: the new Brewers’ Guild. Garb: not required. Cost: $2 for hall entry, $10 adult/$5 minor non-member insurance fee. Sunday 6 June from 10am we’ll go in convoy to Kraken Hall for …