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this'll years Renaissance pleasure faire is the same sort of thing that it's been in years past, except this year, it's a little bigger on the extravaganza side. In its basic terms, it's a recreation of the spirit of the 16th century country fairs with entertainment, crafts, foods,

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games and other things associated with the golden age of the Renaissance. There the craftsman selling their wares from rustic stalls or in the open, they in almost everyone connected with the fair. Decked out in costumes, the costumes actually cover a wide range of history and imagination.

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Also, the entertainment is wide and imaginative, their traditional musicians, singers and chanters for the puppets, which Children have been laughing at for centuries. And the list of other entertainment is a blending of the old and the not so old, but all joyous. The basic facts of

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these. The fair will be opened this weekend through Labor Day. Then it will be strictly a weekend affair, Onley Saturdays and Sundays for five more weeks. Each person who comes to the fares, he's it a little differently, and that's the key to its enormous success. It's

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like stepping back into the time, you know back into the Middle Ages on coming to the fair for about four years. Now. It's just fascinating to me, all the crafts. It's like a It's like a like standing in with 1 ft in the Middle Ages and

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1 ft in the next century because a lot of a lot of the future is here. Do you like costume parties? Oh yeah, all right. Everything's so free and beautiful. People are really beautiful here. In what way? Everyone's kissing each other and eating and everyone's happy.

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Well, everyone seems to come and enjoy themselves, etcetera, etcetera. You know you wear a costume if you choose. You can buy good things made, made by hand and good food. All of those good things. It's really a big costume party, hokey and commercial, but fun for

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everybody. There's something at this fair to make everyone smile, and I want to tell you that the cheesecake here is something else. No, no for eyewitness news that the Renaissance pleasure faire