About Alisoun
Alisoun, cooking at the VT Living History Expo, 2022.
I participate in several types of historical reenactment!
In the SCA (the Society for Creative Anachronisms), I "play" Alisoun, a middle aged widow who is a servant to her mistress Lady Laoghaire (pronounced "liri"), also of Stonemarche. She is Laoghaire's chatelaine, the woman who runs her house for her. Alisoun hold the keys to the medicine cupboard, the store rooms, and the creamery, all important places in a medieval holding. Laoghaire and Alisoun live in 14th century England.
I have also been known to pull out Edgithe Hlammandi, my Viking character. She hails from the very northern tip of Scotland's Shetland Islands, on a tiny island called Unst. Edgithe lives there in the 10th century.
Then I skip ahead to 18th Century depictions of the French and Indian War. I enjoy playing a lower class woman of New France, wife to a hunter/trapper/woodsman. There, I am Alison Todd, baker and cook at The Fort at No. 4, which is a plantation and fort on the Connecticut River, built and inhabited during the mid-1700s.
The "real" Allyson is an author, interfaith minister, mother, and cook. I enjoy cooking as much as my various personas do, and I tend to use my family as guinea pigs for my various recipe testings. You can find me at a wide variety of events throughout the year, and they are listed on the Appearances page of my author website. Feel free to find me and come say hello!
In the SCA (the Society for Creative Anachronisms), I "play" Alisoun, a middle aged widow who is a servant to her mistress Lady Laoghaire (pronounced "liri"), also of Stonemarche. She is Laoghaire's chatelaine, the woman who runs her house for her. Alisoun hold the keys to the medicine cupboard, the store rooms, and the creamery, all important places in a medieval holding. Laoghaire and Alisoun live in 14th century England.
I have also been known to pull out Edgithe Hlammandi, my Viking character. She hails from the very northern tip of Scotland's Shetland Islands, on a tiny island called Unst. Edgithe lives there in the 10th century.
Then I skip ahead to 18th Century depictions of the French and Indian War. I enjoy playing a lower class woman of New France, wife to a hunter/trapper/woodsman. There, I am Alison Todd, baker and cook at The Fort at No. 4, which is a plantation and fort on the Connecticut River, built and inhabited during the mid-1700s.
The "real" Allyson is an author, interfaith minister, mother, and cook. I enjoy cooking as much as my various personas do, and I tend to use my family as guinea pigs for my various recipe testings. You can find me at a wide variety of events throughout the year, and they are listed on the Appearances page of my author website. Feel free to find me and come say hello!
Alisoun, cooking beef pottage at Auburn Duck Race Day, 2022.
