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From: traite@wivax.UUCP (Paul Traite)
Newsgroups: net.rec
Subject: Re: Re: A SCAdian Call to Arms
Message-ID: <20170@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 10:24:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 10:24:55 1984
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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> I have read several postings mentioning SCA.  Excuse my
> ignorance, but what is SCA?  What do the letters mean?
> I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is.  Could
> one of you folks explain, it would be more interesting to
> read if I knew what SCA was.  Thanks.
> T. C. Wheeler

**  DISCLAIMER **
	The following description is my own and not official SCA, Wang
Institute, or anyone else's pap.
**

	SCA stands for the Society for Creative Anachronism.  It is an
international organization whose members are interested in exploring and
re-creating various aspects of the middle ages (ie midieval times).  This is
done through workshops and guilds in many arts, crafts, and activities such
as (and the following is by no means exhaustive):
	archery, brewers, needleworkers, dance, instumental and vocal music,
	woodworking, metalworking, armory, medieval combat (taught as a martial
	art), cooking, calligraphy, heraldry, luthering (musical instrument
	making); midieval education, medicine, poetry, cosmology, etc.;
	researching and making clothing of the period.

	To bring all the above special interest groups together, events such as
tournaments, dances, and feasts are held.  At these events, members take on an
alternate persona (similar to fantasy role-playing games).  During the event,
they take on the personality, dress, and knowledge of a person who might have
lived in the middle ages (no, you can't be Henry the 1st, but you could be an
anonimous noble in his court).  For the most part, the people at these events
place the most emphasis on having a good time first and being medieval while
doing it.

	As I said above in the disclaimer, these are just my own opinion (I
have been a member of the SCA off and on for 5-6 years).  I believe there are
about 10,000 members, and there are probably 10,000 different opinions on what
the SCA is.  I hope that other SCAdians will post their ideas so that non-SCA
people can get a more balanced picture of the Society.

					Aidien

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