Canton of Whyt Whey

The Canton of Whyt Whey is defined by the borders of the county of New York.

The origins of the Canton of Whyt Whey lay in the back yard of Sir Edward Zifran of Gendy in the 1980's. He would hold fighter practice back there and afterwards would everyone would go to a restauant accross the street called P.J. Reynolds (now defunct). Eventually the fighter practice was no longer held at his house, vbut the gathering at the restaurant on Tuesday nights remained.

Sometime about 1988, someone loooked around and said words to the effect of "hey, we could start a canton here!" The original thought was to call the canton "Grate Whyte Whey" as a pun on the mispelling of Ostgardr that would mean "cheese farm" and the nickname for Broadway. The heralds allowed for only the last two words to be the name of the canton.

There was much debate over the deevice for the canton. Some of the founding mebers were adamant about it having cockroaches, that most indomitable of local fauna, on it. Others were grossed out by the idea. The current registered device is "Sable, a german beetle dismembered within a laurel wreath and on a chief embattled argent, a pomme."

Being located in the county of New York (which is mostly the island of Manhattan), few full-size, and no camping events have ever occurred there. Possibly the largest event was the "May Games event held in Central Park, with the feast held at the West Side YMCA. The group does many demos for schools, and has had a presence at the Fort Tryon Park Medieval Festival for several years. From 1992-2005 the weekday fighter practices were held in Union Square, and many news organizations, TV stations, and independent journalists, photographers, and videographers have acquired words, pictures, and footage of SCA members and SCA fighting there.

The newsletter is known as the Cheese Cloth

The unnofficial titles of the officers of Whyt Whey are as follows:

The Black Flag pursuivant
The Combat knight marshal
The Raid captain-general of archers
The Roach Motel chatelaine
The Hav-a-Heart seneschal
The D-Con of arts and sciences