St. Rad Work Day...

Thank you for making it a successful work day! We now have a beautiful banner for the event! We now have the faux soapstone to carve into a mold for site tokens! We now have a new friend, Jacob! The old arrow wound in his arm clinched it...

Attention! Sunday Business Meeting

Sunday, June 28th will be held the Monthly Business Meeting for July! It will be held at Sibley Park, Mankato Mn. at 2:00pm. Look for the Shire banner (pictured) for location. It is this weekend because next weekend, the normally scheduled weekend, is the day after the 4th of July! Because of the holiday many of the officers would not be able to attend. Also, time is closing in for our August event, St, Radegund's fair. We will be scheduling several more Event Work Days. Please attend so these days can be scheduled! Remember, have your class descriptions to Melanie Wing - Goddess of the Schedule - by Sunday! We will be posting a reasonably comprehensive class listing this first week of July!

St. Radegund Work Day

Saturday, June 27th from 2:00pm to 5:00pm there will be held a work day for the upcomeing event. We will be painting the banner purchased for last years event but never used. We will be working on site tokens, cast pewter pilgrim badges. The work day will be held at the Schuster hovel. 21878 505 Avenue, Lake Crystal Mn. 56055 http://tinyurl.com/kqwdcj

Directions to the Schuster Hovel:

• Take Hwy 60 to Lake Crystal.
• Turn North onto Couty Road 20.
• Drive approx. 5 mi to the first tar crossroad - co. rd. 11
• Turn left onto co rd 11
• Drive approx. 1/2 mile through an "S" curve and turn RIGHT/North onto 505 Ave. (505 Ave. will also be on your left/south. Do not turn left! Continue through the curve until you can turn right/north onto 505 Ave.)
• 505 is a gravel township. Schuster's are the 3rd driveway on the LEFT. It is way off the road.

Call For Teachers!

St. Radegund's Faire August 7-9

Come share your knowledge at St. Radegund's Faire hosted by the Shire of Rivenwood Tower (Mankato MN). This year it's a Kingdom A&S Faire! We have many areas for classes: some inside with lights and electricity. We have a building for armoring and hot metal work and vast outdoor areas. Currently we are planning classes Friday afternoon, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon with a generous noon break. To volunteer to teach or do an A&S demo please provide the following to the class coordinator:

1. Your SCA name

2. mundane name and contact info

3. the title of the class

4. description of the class

5. duration of the class

6. preferred time(s) to teach (morning or afternoon, Friday or Saturday)

7. whether the class is limited by sign-ups

8. fee for handouts or materials (if applicable)

9. whether it is open to children (specify ages, if adult needs to be present)

10. special needs (tables, running water, ability to heat, etc.)

Class Coordinator Lady Maryam bint Wahib ibn Ahmad

aka Melanie Wing 952-492-2103

herald@rivenwoodtower.org (herald AT rivenwoodtower.org)

http://www.rivenwoodtower.org/radegund-44.pdf

Archery Practice

Date:
Saturday June 20, 2009
Time:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location: Darin and Gretchen Ingall's

ttp://rivenwoodnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/archery-practice.html

- Again, N.C Wyeth.

Fighter Practice

Date:
Sunday June 21, 2009
Time:
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

MSU Mankato MN
Outside Performing Arts Building, In the Myers Field House (if below 50 or raining)

- Okay, N.C. Wyeth is not period but soooo cool!

Solstice

Sunday, June 21'st is Solstice, a music and arts event in Land of Memories Park, in Mankato Minnesota. http://www.solsticemankato.com/ The Shire of Rivenwood Tower will be doing a demo in support of Jack McGowan's History Fest. The proceeds of the event go to support the three day History Fest held in October on Jack McGowan's Farm which the Shire attends every year. Set up is at 9:00am. Gates open at 12:30pm and it runs until 10:30 pm. Bart Saxton at bart@bsaxton.com , is the coordinator of the demo.

Fat Hen And Crofter Feta Galette

Chenopodium Album or Fat Hen (Lamb's Quarters in the U.S.) is in the same family as spinach - the Chenopodiaceae. It tastes very like spinach...but more of it; spinach plus! It is rampant in my garden - I wish everything else germinated and grew like it! - so instead of fighting it, I decided to eat it! Here follows a recipe for peasant food extraordinaire.

Pick several generous handfuls of Fat Hen. (A few new onions are good too...) Fat Hen is best up to six or seven inches high - bigger and you will just want the leaves. Wash the green and shake excess water off. Remove the tougher stems. Fat Hen, near the tops where the new growth emerges, has a strange grayish, granular coating on the underside of the leaves. You will feel this as you handle them. It is not dirt and you would waste an afternoon trying to "wash it off". It is harmless and is not gritty when you eat it. Now for your galette. (A galette is a rustic, free form pie or tart.)

Fat Hen and Feta Galette

Chop two cups of the Fat Hen. Set aside.

In a bowl, mix together:
2 eggs
1 cup of feta cheese and
1 cup of ricotta cheese.
1/4 cup chopped onion
salt and pepper to taste.

(I make my own fresh soft cheeses and a sharp cottage cheese is one. Store bought feta plus ricotta comes out a close approximation to what I use.)

Stir in the Fat Hen to the cheese and egg mixture.

Next, spoon the thick mixture into the center of a rough ten inch circle of pastry dough. Leave about three inches of dough around the edges, you will fold this up to make your galette.

(My savory pastry dough: 2 cups any flour; 3/4 cup side pork or bacon drippings, or home rendered lard with cracklings still in it.

Mix oil in well. Add 1/4 cup cold water and mix in. If you need to, add more water - just as much as will bind your dough together - You do not want it wet! Roll or press into shape.)

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 -400 degrees F. for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.

Fat Hen, Lamb's Quarters, that blankety-blank weed, or whatever you prefer to call it is a delicious, and nutritious green sadly forgotten. You can enjoy your peasant status while eating this anciently used plant - and after my adventures in medieval peasant eating I believe they ate really pretty well! That, and it is an unbelievably satisfying way of getting it out of your garden!

The College of Rivenwood Tower

Please welcome the "College of Rivenwood Tower" to SCA!


College of Rivenwood Tower *RSO Category*: Special InterestPresident Justin Kent. Advisor Jeffrey Hundstad. Meeting Info: Sundays in Myers Field House. Mission: The College of Rivenwood Tower's purpose is to study and reenact medieval times so as to educate its members and fellow students. The processes by which CRT will do this include, but are not limited to:Research, Interviews, Tours, Experiments, Western Style Martial Arts(including the modern sport of fencing), and Reenactment.

http://www.mnsu.edu/supersite/directories/rso/details.php?name=College+of+Rivenwood+Tower

Archery Practice

Saturdays at 2:00pm at the Ingall's home is held Archery Practice.
Bring your gear or, for newcomers, use both the Shire's and our archery marshall in training Bill Miller's loaner archery equipment. The Ingall's live at 52834 Minnewaukon Ct North Mankato, MN 56003-4004. http://www.rivenwoodtower.org/darin_ingalls.jpg

June Business Meeting Sunday

At 2:00pm Sunday, June 7th, at Sibley Park, Mankato Mn. we will hold our Monthly Business Meeting. We are hoping for a happy turn out. We will be meeting in the area of the petting zoo. Drive around until you see our Shire Device (pictured) on bumper stickers. Business meetings are, of course, for the purpose of Shire business but are open to any and all within shire boundaries! Come and observe and contribute! We will be talking about the regular monthly requireds but also will be spending a good chunk of time discussing the upcoming event in August; St. Radegund's Fair.

Arrow Making

Arrow Making is every Wednesday evening at Bill Miller's house in Eagle Lake, Mn. It starts at 7:00pm and goes until you leave. Bill wants people to know that it is a "smoking friendly" venue. Bill's house can be located at 107 Parkway Eagle Lake, MN 56024. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=44.16317,-93.879166&ie=UTF8&ll=44.164413,-93.872123&spn=0.011729,0.039911&z=15&iwloc=addr He will get you on your way to being a fletcher.

Armoury Night

Armoury nights have been changed to Tuesday evenings instead of the usual Thursday nights it has previously been. Armoury shall now

be held every Tuesday from 6:30 pm until 10:00pm at the Prahl shop at 621 Main St N Garden City, MN 56034. http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=44.052214,-94.163684&ie=UTF8&ll=44.052311,-94.163046&spn=0.006323,0.018454&z=16

Mike Prahl and sundry others will help you start your own armor,

chain or plate.

Meeting Minutes

The St. Radegund's planning meeting went as follows:

We discussed class schedule, (there will be a two hour mid-day break), class placement, troll(garbage bags to be handed out with site token), creating a St. Radegund's Banner from the banner material purchased last year but never used, parking, camping sites, A&S display/competition will be held exclusively in the cabin, Anna Schuster will be Hall Steward.
Bart Saxton is Event Steward. Melanie Wing is Class Coordinator.
http://www.rivenwoodtower.org/radegund-44.pdf