Tag: renaissance
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November 27, 2007 03:11 AM EST --
47 Minutes takes great pride tonight in reporting on the "event of the day", the birthday celebration of a self-proclaimed turkey. (Due to budgetary issues, we could not afford the full 60 . . . more
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February 08, 2007 11:20 AM EST --
This is just something tongue-in-cheek I was once writing about the different ways things can be historically incorrect at Renaissance fairs or historical reenactments. My wife and I started out participating . . . more
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August 20, 2008 11:49 PM EDT --
This is my third (and final!) photo essay from the Renaissance Faire. My previous essays included two of the shows we watched (Birds of Prey and Dextre Tripp) and so this photo essay will include . . . more
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April 17, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
I have been doing a lot of browsing around eBay lately. There are quite a few things I am looking for. One, I can no longer work my fingers well enough without pain to make my own RenFest garb and Sweden's . . . more
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August 19, 2007 08:52 AM EDT --
We went to the Renaissance Festival this August for the first time even though we have lived in New York for 13 years! (Wow, this is off subject but it really blows my mind to think I have lived . . . more
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September 23, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
I haven't been around too much on Gather lately... as I've been keeping pretty busy! I figured I might as well do a little summary of what I've been up to lately.
Classes
Classes are . . . more
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July 23, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
The Pennslyvania Renaissance faire in at the Mount Hope winery opens on August 11 this year.
I'll be there on Sunday the 12th. Anyone from gather going to join me there?
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June 05, 2008 03:38 PM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
Let me see. The homework for yesterday's memoir class was to pick one word that describes me best. Well that is not as easy as you might think since there . . . more
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March 30, 2008 09:47 PM EDT --
Just a reprint of something I wrote for the reenactors' newsletter Smoke & Fire News .
Most of us have seen that game with all the triangles printed on the back of checker boards, but few . . . more
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December 02, 2007 02:46 PM EST --
Steve Reich
The New England Conservatory just presented a set of four concerts of the music of Steve Reich. It was a fabulous reminder of the innovative and richly rewarding music of one of America's . . . more
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August 17, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
I regret to pass along the news that there will be no renaissance fair in Southern Illinois this fall.
The Southern Illinois Renaissance Fair in Murphsryboro was not held last year and word eventually . . . more
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January 17, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
Hear ye! Hear ye! Welcome to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, now in it's 30th season! This Fest is, of course, in a 125-acre field located on Crownsville Road, in Anne Arundel County . . . more
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September 09, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
Each year from August through October, the grounds of the Mt. Hope Estate and Winery are transformed into bustling Elizabethan village every weekend. The 35-acre village, along with hundreds of costumed . . . more
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August 18, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
I previously posted a photo essay on the Birds of Prey show at the NY Renaissance Faire from my recent visit. It wasn't the only show that my husband and I watched that day and so now I will . . . more
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July 17, 2006 04:30 PM EDT --
He always wrote
of noir lace and silk
and on page
he bled --
he too,
was America.
He was America's darker
brother who wrote of rivers;
he'd known rivers,
he'd known . . . more
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September 20, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
oh, we had so much fun yesterday! we went to the michigan renaissance festival - one of the nation's oldest, at 30 years and counting! it is spread over 17 acres, and i was really glad that they had . . . more
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January 15, 2007 10:48 AM EST --
While selling games from the past at Renaissance fairs and historial reenactment events I've often been asked why the traditional French suits of hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds have become the . . . more
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February 14, 2007 05:51 PM EST --
Nutrition is a Sometime Thing
Ken Albala , author of Eating Right in the Renaissance, is a . . . more
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May 23, 2007 03:31 AM EDT --
My husband and I are planning to attend a Renaissance Faire on June 9th near St. Louis. This will be our first.
Have you been to such a gathering, and what did you think of it as a day's entertainment? . . . more
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June 27, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
Red Moon Tribe is in the news! Zivah and the Tribe are being interviewed for a June issue of the Community Free Press. This bi-weekly local paper covers news and events in Springfield and the Ozarks . . . more
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