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Vermont Renaissance Faire Vermont: Champlain Valley Expo, Essex; semi-permanent Unknown location; Renaissance, Fantasy, Medieval: 2016 6 stages, demo field, joust field, multiple encampments (06d) end of June (1 weekend) 10k [33] Vermont Gatherings: Virginia Renaissance Faire Virginia: Spotsylvania; semi-permanent
A Renaissance Festival (medieval fair or ren faire) is an outdoor gathering that aims to entertain its guests by recreating a historical setting, most often the English Renaissance. Renaissance festivals generally include costumed entertainers or fair-goers, musical and theatrical acts, art and handicrafts for sale, and festival food.
The series of six fairs, each lasting more than six weeks, were spaced through the year's calendar: the fair of Lagny-sur-Marne began on 2 January: the fair at Bar-sur-Aube on the Tuesday before mid-Lent; the "May fair" of Provins on the Tuesday before Ascension; the "fair of St. John" or the "hot fair" of Troyes on the first Tuesday after the fortnight of St. John's Day (24 June); the fair of ...
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls. Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud , UK , invented the lawnmower , lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them.
The East Anglian Fairs began with the Barsham Medieval Faire in 1972, and developed into a significant feature of rural counterculture in Britain, drawing on aspects of pop festival culture, the reinvention of traditional rural or nomadic seasonal gatherings, and a back-to-the-land early green ethos. The voluntary organisers worked under the ...
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The Floral Hall was constructed in 1884 at the fairgrounds in Bowling Green; it originally held horticultural exhibits, although in the 20th century it was renamed "Needle Hall" after it began hosting needlework exhibitions. In later years, the fair moved to another location, the original grounds were converted into a city park, and all other ...
Medieval Faire (Canada's Wonderland) Medieval Market of Turku; Medieval Times; T. Tournament of Kings This page was last edited on 20 October 2016, at 13:37 (UTC). ...