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Issue #19 - October 21, 2001
Happenings for Rennies:
If you know of any "rennie happenings", why haven't
you let us know yet?!?
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Feature: Puzzles from KCRF 2001
- KCRF Front Gate — An
oldie but a goodie!
- Mother Pockets — Doing
what she does best...smiling beautifully and cooking fantastic
soup!
- Brobdingnagian Bards — Proof
that we have, indeed, met our wonderfully unpronounceable sponsors.
- Minstrosity — Hamming
for the camera!
- Rosalynd — Our
absolute favourite mead wench, live and in person. We recommend
the warm stuff.
Every two weeks we are going to turn five of our very own photos
into a Java-based puzzle for you to solve! If you have a suggestion
as to a photo that would make a good puzzle, let
us know! To see past puzzles, go
here.
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Poll: What Do You Do For a Living?
After finding out that we've known some performers for years and
only recently found what they do when they're not at faire, we've
decided to take a bit of a poll.
E-mail
us and let me know what your "mundane" job is.
Colour us curious!
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Review: Kansas City Renaissance Festival
The Kansas City Renaissance Festival is a special faire for John-Paul
and myself because it was our first date. It was a magical weekend
in '99 that we try to relive (and somehow don't quite manage to)
every year since. However, new magic always seems to happen. We
always leave with new friends that we will never forget. [more...]
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Review: Geneseo Shakespearean Festival
The Geneseo Shakespearean Festival is a small one day event just
across the border in Geneseo, Illinois. The renaissance festival
is held in conjunction with a performance of one of Shakespeare's
plays each year. It is a very impressive thing that such a cultural
event happens in a town with such a relatively small population. [more...]
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Review: Wybreg Beer Garden
 Brock
Wommack (Foundation president) had an idea. One of the reasons
the festival was scheduled during chilly October was because of
the annual Van Buren County Forest Craft Festival. This event draws
as many as 16,000 visitors into the area and it seemed like a great
way to increase festival attendance without additional advertising
expenses. The small town of Bonaparte, Iowa (home of Renaissance
Foundation) would see enough traffic to keep their many shops (and
temporary weekend merchants) busy all weekend. What if the Foundation
threw a free renaissance themed event in the Bonaparte City Park? [more...]
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News: The Bill Formerly Known as Rufas
It's official. We got word from the man himself. Rufas the Rude
has retired...What are we going to do without the belching and
plastic fish?
Oh that's right...we won't feel the urge to gag quite so much... [more...]
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Review: Brobdingnagian Bards - Faire
to Remember
Sure, you've seen the ads at the tops of quite a few of our pages,
touting the latest CD for the Brobdingnagian Bards...but do you
really know who they are? Well, we can now say that we do. So there...They
are extremely nice guys, even before they knew who we were! [more...]
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Get Registered with Us
Want to meet other rennies? Want other rennies to be able to meet
you? Go to our Faire Folke:
Rennies section and get registered today! That way, rennies
in your area can find you and send you an e-mail.
Also, if you are a renaissance faire Performer or Merchant,
we'd like to list your contact information, as well! Quite a few
faires use our database to find quality people for their events!
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Plug: AtTheFaire's Pub
Did you know that we have message boards on our site? Well, we
do! Each festival in the Midwest has a topic (the Jubilee and Wybreg
festivals have had quite a bit of activity lately) and there are
more topics to chat under. Just register to get your own handle
and start posting! Let us know what you think about ATF or just
introduce yourself to the rennies at large! Go
to the pub...
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