Thanks for the leads. I didn't expect this much help, and I certainly appreciate it.   
The S.C.A. is notoriously NOT concerned with authenticity, especially at Pensic.
Though there are certainly Scadians who could tell you, in hideous and horrible detail, the history of baskets in the western world.
Several of them are offering me advice on how to turn the fruits of my garden into alcohol in the coming years.

Pittsburgh,as Azzizi well knows, has a world class symphony, several fine theater companies, 3 major universities, 2 minor universities, and Chatham College, where Rachel Carson was once a student. We have several fine parks, a museum with an internationally known dinosaur collection.
St. Anthony's Chapel, in Troy Hill has the world's largest collection of holy Relics.
Notable Pittsburghers include: The late August Wilson, who set his plays in Pittsburgh's Hill District. Andy Warhol, nee' Andrew Wahola, who once lived in the Hill District, John Edgar Wideman, Billy Eckstein (Once upon a time he and my father were the two tallest boys in Fulton School.) Gene Kelly, Willliam Powell, Thomas Starzl, Jonas Saulk, Honus Wagner, Roberto Clemente, Annie Dillard (We went to the same high school, though not at the same time.) Ethelbert Nevin, Nelly Bly, Sharon Stone and George Romero.
Mary Cassatt, Gertrude Stein and Mary Roberts Rheinhart were all born in the City of Allegheny. (The Steins moved when Gertrude was 6 months old, so her rose may be a rose, but it is not a Pittsburgh rose.)
For the past century and a half or so, business owners have played one ethnic group off against another. End result, we don't always get along too well in this town. But we produce more culture here than we can consume locally.