How I Found the SCA (or the SCA Found Me)

This began as a Facebook Post by [[]]. It occurred to Duchess Natalya de Foix that these stories should be stored in Compendium Caidis.

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From Lachlan of Cromarty

When I was in highschool I stumbled across a demonstration at Jackson's Mill in Lewis County, West Virginia. The demo was hosted by the Barony of the Debatable Lands (Pittsburgh, PA. Then Kingdom of the East, now AEthelmearc). I recall seeing heavy weapons fighting and got to try my hand at fencing. Being D&D players, my best friend John and I were pretty intrigued. We wanted to do armored combat, which eventually I would try long before picking up fencing for real. But first we helped found a shire in Morgantown, WV known then as the Shire of Swampwater Springs (not my name!--I did design atrocious branch heraldry, however!). After high school, I moved to Caid and John moved to Pittsburgh. We both participated in our respective kingdoms for some time, though John was a bit more interested in other Living History groups and eventually parted from the SCA. I'm apparently here for good!