Volume 4, Issue 26 - July-September 2012 - Heraldshill!

(Lilies War Cont…)
her interests have turned to all things fiber. “I
am what I like to call ‘a dabbler’ and have just
enough knowledge to be dangerous about a lot
of things.”
Simone’s focus is
on animals: fibers,
shearing and processing
the wool, and
how to take them
from beginning to
end, as well as the
animals themselves.
She is also involved in
animal husbandry: how to breed for proper
traits and all the ins and outs of procreation.
She has also studied what products are created
from each animal and how to process them,
and this includes milking a cow or goat, to
processing it into butter, cheese and ice cream,
as well as butchering and processing the meats.
Simone’s persona prefers the simple, capable
life of a farmwife, but can, at will, become
the lady she was trained to be, and mingle
with the courtiers and royalty should the need
or desire arise.
As mentioned earlier, Simone is married to
Shon Hunyman, who is a Scotsman, as far as
she can tell. “His persona details seem not to
be so important to him, and we have not
worked out how we met.”
Simone has three children, all now adults,
and they do not have personas as her children
in the SCA. The eldest, Bran, has been trying
a few different things in the SCA and in real
life is a member of the United States Army Reserves,
Military Police Corps. Tyler Marie,
though having grown up in the SCA, has chosen
to leave that behind in pursuit of more
mundane lifestyle. She is a sophomore at Cornell
College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where she is
studying Business and English Literature, aiming
for a career in publishing. Simone’s
18
youngest, Kethra, has recently graduated
from high school and about to embark on an
eight year trek at Iowa State University studying
Veterinary Medicine.
Simone has not settled on an official device,
but has chosen to use a spinning wheel
as an unregistered badge. “It suits me in my
fiber geek role as the middle part in the processing
of the fibers, and one of the most important
aspects of the process in making a usable
item out of what was taken off of the animal.”
Simone actually started in the SCA as a
member of Deodar in 1998, and less than a
year later, she was in Northwest Iowa where
unfortunately there were no SCA groups
nearby. She and Shon decided to start a
group from scratch. They were able to recruit
other shires and held several demos. “I
was pretty enthusiastic then!” The group
started as a contact group under the parent
group of the Shire of Heraldshill, and with
the help of the Hill eventually became the
Shire of Loch Meadhonach. “Amazing things
happen when the Hillians can be convinced
of a worthy project.”
Simone was initially the group Seneschal,
but turned the duties over to another after
the group had been elevated to the level of
Shire. However, due to the lack of members
in the area, she found herself taking over the
duties of the Minister of Arts and Sciences.
With the passage of time, Simone and her
family moved to Fairfield, Iowa. “We live our
lives vicariously through the fun and adventures
of our family in Heraldshill.”
When asked about some of her more
memorable moments with the Hill, her response
was, “being braided to a tent rope appears
to be the most famous of my exploits.”
Simone continues by adding “although some
members have learned what happens when
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