Char Branstetter and Cara McCandless


Castle info

Do you know us? Here's some of the places we might have met:

  • Society for Creative Anachronism
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • UCSD School of Medicine
  • Williams' Crew / VESPER
  • Cal Band (Go Bears!)
  • Woodside Striders
  • SMPY (CTY, OTID, 700M, etc.)
  • Castilleja High School (CA)
  • Rockville High School (MD)

We've lived in Pittsburgh since 1995. Cara is a child psychiatrist, and Char is a head and neck radiologist.



We have thre children: Joshua (15), Leah (13), and Ian (11). In the SCA, we had the honor to serve as 6th Baron and Baroness of the Debatable Lands.

Click here for more pictures of us in the SCA

Want to get ahold of us? Use email!

Updated Sept 2, 2013