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What is the SCA?


What is the SCA? Not only is it some of the most awesome fun that you'll ever have, but the people you meet here will become the best family that you'll ever have. -- The Honorable Lady Jerusha Kilgore

The Society began as a graduation celebration for Diana Paxson (Countess Diana the Listmaker) in Berkeley, California on May 1, 1966. That gathering, based on a 19th-century recreation of medieval life called the "Last Tournament," was the start of new era in research and recreation of the Middle Ages!

Ask a SCAdian: What inspired the Society to continue after that first event?

When I was planning the first tournament, I thought it would be a cool thing I could tell my children that I did once when I was in college. It wasn't until people started talking about "next time" at the feast afterward that I began to suspect I had started something. The group that came together at that first event had a unique chemistry and some very talented people. It was such a great experience, we had to try and repeat it. -- Countess Diana the Listmaker



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