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Issue #17 - September 10, 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 of the Iowa Renaissance
Festival and Harvest Faire
- Medici Grove
— Did you know that IRF is actually "themed" to
be set in medieval Italy?
- 1996 Mugs —
We bought one of each style, simply because that was the year
Willa started attending IRF!
- There Be Dragons!
— What an awesome daily treat for the kids! And
we had a blast quaking in fear.
- WWWow! —
What would our puzzles be without piecing together some cleavage?
Oh, and some blatant advertising for Willa's Washer Well Wenches.
- See You Next
Year!? — This sign tells so much about
festival life. There are so many unknowns...
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 Kind of Addict are You?
How far have you traveled to attend faire? Show just how pathetic
your addiction is now!
My name
is Rennie, and I am an addict...
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News: ARA Online!
We are proud to announce the latest group to join us: Irish
Knight Productions. In addition to being a combat entertainment
group, they also operate the new A Renaissance Affaire in
Osceola, Iowa. Their first event was in June of 2001 and a date
has been set for 2002. To help get the promotion underway they now
have a web site which happens to be hosted by us. [more...]
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Article: Poofy Shirts for Boys in 5 Easy
Steps
I was in a bit of a bind about two weeks ago when I realized that
my sons had outgrown their garb from last year. I pretty much panicked.
Especially when they looked at me with those gorgeous blue eyes
and said, "Mommy, we wanna be PIRANTS!" (They're 3 &
4...we allow them their quirky childhood mispronunciations.) [more...]
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Review: A Wench's Perspective on IRF
 Let's
keep in mind here that I'm writing this article exactly a week after
the three day Iowa Renaissance Festival and Harvest Faire began
and I'm still exhausted. So bear with me, won't you?
The day started out really early, as JP had spent the week
prior to the festival in California and had just gotten home at
around 3am the night before. We got to the faire within about 1/2
hour of opening gate... [more...]
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Review: JP Revisits The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly at IRF
A few years before AtTheFaire.com existed I had many of my theme
park photos available on my simplenet web site. Included amongst
the photos from Disneyland and other places were a few directories
of renaissance festival images including some from the Iowa Renaissance
Festival and Harvest Faire. Around the 1998 - 1999 time period I
wrote up my first festival review entitled The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly detailing all the things I believed to be wrong
with the Iowa festival. [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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