The County of Skywatch Meets on Sundays, from 12:00 pm until dark at Grover Nelson PARK Abilene, TX)Look for us near the Pavilions or near the lake. Abilene has been a home to many chapter starts for Amtgard, with it's most successful attempt as the Freehold of Citadel in 1992. However, in 2013, a group of Amtgardians originally from the chapter of Irongate (Lubbock TX) found themselves desiring to resuscitate Abilene Amtgard. After a year of social networking, and one very persuasive speech given at Cisco College, the group had it's first meeting on March 9, 2013. The then Shire of Skywatch hosted its inaugural celebration the last weekend in April to commemorate it's chapter's vitality,with a turnout of 120 sign-ins - many of which were from the sponsoring Kingdom of the Golden Plains, but most were local participants. Skywatch is also financially supported by the charitable sponsorship of The Gathering Place - a local gamestore for trading card games, role-playing, and table-top strategy located at 1812 S Clack in Abilene TX.