Shire of Coldedernhale

04/28/2026

A huge thank you to the Pierre Capital Journal for covering our tournament!

Living history group hosts dueling tourney

04/27/2026

Hello! If you have just found us, feel free to reach out to us to find out about meetings and events.

Check out our website, PierreSCA.org, for details.

Rapier Sword Fighting (Think Three Musketeers) - Practices on Sunday afternoons weather permitting. Contact [email protected] for details.

General info - Contact David Miller at [email protected]

Planning ahead? Aug. 1st we are hosting another day of sword fighting along with a large feast, and Nov. 14th we will have a whole day in Pierre devoted to dozens of classes on various crafts from before the year 1600.

We also have a private discussion group here on Facebook that will be linked below in the comments.

04/10/2026

As we move closer to our spring event, Provost Challenge, it's time to start back up practices for the year! The weather this week looks fantastic and we have a new structure for warmups and drills. As always, bring gloves and wear closed toed shoes. If you have a piece of shire loaner equipment, please bring it so it can get inspected!

Coldedernhale Fencing Practice
Sunday, 2pm to 3pm
Brandt Park (northwest of the playground on the Seneca side)

08/02/2025

No fencing practice in Pierre this weekend as we'll instead be fencing out in Watertown! Please come join us for this fun regional practice hosted by our sister shire, Trewint, and the magnanimous Judith of Norwood! Free lunch, plenty of shelter to get out of the weather, a gorgeous park that's perfect for any photos people want to take and an after party at Dempsey's! Come hang out!

07/20/2025

From fencing marshal Tancorix: looking at the forecast, looks like we've got some heavy rain overnight but the weather will dry up a fair bit by 11:30 am. It'll be humid and the ground might be dewy so we'll be careful and take things a little slower than usual, but I think we're good to meet at Brandt Park as usual. Eyvor has requested that we do C&T so that's what we'll be working on! I'll bring the C&T loaner arming sword.

06/29/2025

Good evening from fencing marshal Tancorix! We will be switching fencing practice from Brandt Park to The Waterfront Gallery tomorrow to avoid the rain and wet grass. Same time, 11:30 am. See you tomorrow!

06/23/2025

The shire had a great time at Oahe Days 2025! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, watched the fights, took a flyer, or just said hi!

05/26/2024

It was a busy day in Coldedernhale! Fencing practice followed by a shop day making small Roman wax tablets!

04/25/2024

Provost Challenge Site Update:

We are officially switching to the backup site for the event. The schedule on our website for Saturday is still accurate, but instead of the downstream lodge we will be at the gym at Buchanan Elementary School at 100 N Buchanan Ave here in Pierre. The green square on the map below is where Gate will be located, just inside the gym doors. There will be no other entrances into the site. We need to be out of the gym by 6 PM. Post revel social time and potluck will still be taking place at the Lodge starting at 7 PM, and you are still welcome to stay at the Lodge overnight.

https://www.pierresca.org/provost-challenge/schedule/

Because our new site is an elementary school, we have a few policy and housekeeping updates.

Below is the school's Public Conduct policy.
https://sp-pierre.k12.sd.us/Pierre%20School%20District%20Policies/K%20-%20School-Community%20Relations/K9-Public%20Conduct%20on%20School%20Property.pdf
With exception for small bumps and bruises and for our simulation swords due to the nature of our sport, we otherwise need to abide by the following document. I will also add this to our website for easy retrieval, and below I will highlight policies that are most relevant.

Please DO NOT bring live steel to the event. We will have a serrated bread knife on hand for bread, and blunt butter knives, and all of the rest of the food can be eaten without a knife.

The site is now DRY. No alcohol is allowed on school property. Alcohol can be present at the post revel and potluck at the Lodge, but do not bring any to the gym.

Buchanan Elementary School has a no smoking policy on the entire school grounds. On the map below I have highlighted a patch of public land across the street that will be our designated smoking area, and I will have a wood-handled black and yellow golf umbrella by the gym entrance available for anyone who needs to pop across the street.

Finally, for our traditional soup lunch:
There are bathrooms a short walk from the gym that we are allowed explicitly to rinse our feast gear in, but we will also have a scrape station and Lysol wipes available for cleaning up after lunch. The new site DOES NOT have a kitchen! Please bring your own feast gear if you are able. We will have a small quantity of paper bowls available, and Tancorix will also have eight wooden bowls available for free for any newcomers to the SCA who do not yet have or cannot afford their own feast gear to take home with them.

For fighters, the new gym has a brand new wooden floor. Please keep that in mind when you select your footwear for the day and be gentle when setting your swords down. We're really lucky to have this space and if we keep it nice we might be allowed back.

Hopefully this is our last missive ahead of the event. Drive safe on your way out here and we will see you bright and early Saturday morning at the gym!

04/23/2024

Good morning! Here's your weather report for Provost Challenge XIX this upcoming Saturday (at the Oahe Downstream in Pierre and Ft Pierre, SD). I'll be honest friends, it's not looking great for outdoor fighting. But fear not, we are securing a backup site today. Should we need to, we will be moving the proceedings to the gym at Buchanan Elementary School, located at 100 N. Buchanan Ave here in Pierre.