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"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" appeared as the lead track on the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song "The Side of a Hill". [22] The duo learned their arrangement of the song from Martin Carthy, but did not credit him as the arranger.
The SMHC won the Scarborough Mayor’s Big Thank You award for Artistic and Cultural Development three times in a row between 2010 and 2012, [4] and the Max Payne Award for Outstanding Achievement. [5] The SMHC website was voted 'Best Maritime Family History' website by the BBC TV's Who Do You Think You Are magazine readers in 2011. [6]
Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not reported on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London, such as the bookseller Andrew Millar and his family. Their son Andrew junior died there in 1750. [20]
Scarborough Renaissance Festival, more commonly known as Scarborough Faire, is a renaissance fair in Waxahachie, Texas.. Scarborough Faire's first run was in 1981. The festival is open Saturdays and Sundays from the first weekend in April until Memorial Day Monday.
Scarborough North Bay Railway (SNBR) is a ridable miniature railway (also known as a minimum-gauge railway) in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, [ 2 ] to the gauge of 20 in ( 508 mm ), and runs for approximately 7 ⁄ 8 mile (1.4 km) between Peasholm Park and Scalby Mills in the North Bay area of the town.
Kite flying was a common activity at the park. Approximately 70 kites would fly in the air every weekend. [5]In August 2010, Toronto banned kite flying at the park because of the kite fighting that occurred, a common activity in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India that was made popular by the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-American author.