The Stand Still, Stay Silent Fan-Forum
Creative Corner => Roleplay Board => Topic started by: midwestmutt on October 16, 2018, 03:40:58 PM
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Hopefully we will see more of you now you have internet again?
Yeah, I see we have to start over with the reenactment discussion thread.I'll read up again on how to post pictures and rebuild the site as best I can for my part.
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Thanks! I wouldn't know where to begin.
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Yeah, I see we have to start over with the reenactment discussion thread.I'll read up again on how to post pictures and rebuild the site as best I can for my part.
I still have a bunch of Róisín's photos on board hosted privately on my imgur account - I can reload them, possibly this weekend if I get a chance.
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So glad you still have them!
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And something that I would have put up on the reenactment thread, were it still here:
Timeline Festival, at Kryal Castle, Leigh Creek near Ballarat, Victoria. This coming weekend, October 19 to 21. Friday is reenactors only, Saturday and Sunday open to visitors. I wont get there this year, but a lot of interesting people will. Worth a look.
And Midwestmutt, I hope some of your photos survive - they really caught the spirit of the events.
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Thanks, Dan! Look after yourself. Most of our big events are in late summer through autumn, but there will be some smaller ones happening. I'm hoping we don't get overrun by weather, because I reckon we have a bushfire summer coming. Good luck with your winter weather!
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Some recovered photos of Róisín:
Here's herself:
(https://i.imgur.com/FbdzpNQ.jpg)
At the Medieval Faire:
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Getting the goss on the Hootakainen:
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In storyteller garb:
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Barn Owl at this year's Medieval Faire:
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Wavewright, thank you!
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https://66.media.tumblr.com/602ce2f8f65f1b689e73c35e244d90ce/tumblr_pgww0o7QVH1ti7cwto1_540.jpg Here I am in my red colonial suit which I wear as the traditional garb of a town cryer.
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https://66.media.tumblr.com/8447281b2f49a8da78725c0dcca7d869/tumblr_pgwww8rrmU1ti7cwto1_1280.jpg A budding piper. My favorite picture of the year. I was showing her how to play the scales on a penny whistle. (http://)
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My time period runs from the French and Indian War to the War of 1812. Here I am in the green waistcoat at the Battle of Prairie du Chien Wisconsin,, an actual battle when the British/Canadians lay siege to a frontier fort in 1815 with the help of their Indian allies. I am on the British side , in the local militia. We win.(https://66.media.tumblr.com/d2cafb3d09f050f81fdc4d3339622d08/tumblr_pgwxryfZJO1ti7cwto1_1280.jpg)
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I play music for the public on penny whistle, Native American flute, and hammered dulcimer.
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(https://66.media.tumblr.com/c3be24277070e721495298c9f0227247/tumblr_ph1y2bvfEc1ti7cwto1_640.jpg)With the exception of #15 I have done all of these, #11 most recently.
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Much amused by that poster! I've seen similar done for Viking-era and Mediæval period reenactors. The 'no-one will attend an historical film with you' was particularly funny, since I'm one of those awful people who sit through historical films grumbling about everything from kitchen utensils to blade techniques to the presence of inappropriate plants in a supposedly pristine wilderness setting.
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Much amused by that poster! I've seen similar done for Viking-era and Mediæval period reenactors. The 'no-one will attend an historical film with you' was particularly funny, since I'm one of those awful people who sit through historical films grumbling about everything from kitchen utensils to blade techniques to the presence of inappropriate plants in a supposedly pristine wilderness setting.
The classic one was many, many, many years ago there was a USA TV show about Daniel Boon. In one of the episodes a jet airliner could be seen streaking through skies of a "wilderness" scene.
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The classic one was many, many, many years ago there was a USA TV show about Daniel Boon. In one of the episodes a jet airliner could be seen streaking through skies of a "wilderness" scene.
Eheheh ... you want classic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf)? In spades, maybe? ;)
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(http://)https://66.media.tumblr.com/8f8079c6d3583d26c11308ad09d71659/tumblr_pgwxb4hsT01ti7cwto7_1280.jpg A frosty October morning near the Iowa/Minnesota border.
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Eheheh ... you want classic (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/goofs/?tab=gf&ref_=tt_trv_gf)? In spades, maybe? ;)
I knew there were a few but not that many :D
My dad used to regale me with tales of how in the first Ben Hur movie, mid 20's, during the epic naval battle scene the set caught fire and they just kept filming ;D
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Just found out that this year the Gumeracha Mediæval Fair and the Mylor English Ale have a clash of dates! Damnit! I've already signed my contract to work at the Fair, and they need me enough that I can't cancel out. Double damnit! Especially since the reason the Ale was moved to the earliest possible date, which clashes with the Saturday of the Fair, is that we have a group of visiting Druids from Britain and the Isles, who can only be in Australia for a short time, and if the Ale happened in its usual range of mid to late May they would already have had to go home by then. Triple damnit because some of them are folk I know and like, and my only chance to catch up with them will be if I can get a lift over to Mylor on the Saturday night of the Fair. However, I no longer drive because my distance vision is failing, and the person most likely to be willing and able to give me a lift (the two events are some forty miles apart) may or may not have to be one of the entertainers for the Fair feast. Grumble mutter curse!
Anyway, for those who want to attend either event: Gumeracha Mediæval Fair, Gumeracha Park, Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May 2019. I'll be in the Viking Village both days, singing, storytelling and the like. Catch up with me if you are passing through. My icon pic is a good cartoon of how I look.
Mylor English Ale: Saturday 4May 2019, about 1000 til very late. Mylor, South Australia. Mylor Hall and Mylor Oval across the road. I won't be at the Ale this year, other than possibly for the Saturday night, but for those who like Morris dancing, maypoles, mystery plays, mummers and guisers, masked torchlight parades and a Green Man, Giants (not the SSSS kind, the traditional English kind), good music and good fun, it's great. I think they have Keith Preston's very traditional Punch and Judy show again this year. Saturday morning the Druids are having their gathering, and the Saturday evening concert has Damh the Bard and other interesting musicians from Britain, local band Spiral Dance and other good stuff.
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it's never a good thing when an event changes its long-established date. There are only so many weekends in a season so there is bound to be a conflict.
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Not mine but taken at a park near me. https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard
Sorry, mate, the link takes me to my own Tumblr dashboard.
I capture pics off Tumblr by right-clicking on the picture and choosing 'Copy image address'. Then in the Forum post, I choose the Mona Lisa on the toolbar, and paste the image address in between the [img and /img] brackets (end brackets left off intentionally).
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Doesn't work for me either.
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https://i-midwestmutt.tumblr.com/image/182271970319
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Better?
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Beautiful landscape!
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Beautiful landscape!
Mississippi Palisades is a state park about 15 minutes away from me. The bluffs overlook the Mississippi River. I didn't take this picture but a local did.
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Getting ready for the Gumeracha Mediæval Fair this Saturday and Sunday. Should be wonderful fun. I will be in the Viking village, singing and storytelling, but I won't be working the whole time, so any passing Minnions are welcome to drop by for a chat between performances. Look for someone who looks like a more battered version of my avatar picture, or ask at the Admin tent for 'Bev the Bard'. Hope to see more of you this year. We also have a fine a capella choir, 'Umbrella a Capella' and Síobhan Owen the harper, and lots of others.
The Mylor English Ale is also on this Saturday, but I probably won't get to it this year. It is worth going to if you like folklore, Morris dancing, mummer's plays, folkmusic(mostly Pagan Folk at this event) torchlight processions and a huge bonfire with fire dancers. We can actually have the fire now that the drought has finally broken - thank the gods for timely rain!
Musicians include Damh the Bard, Trevor Curnow and Spiral dance, plus whatever random folkies turn up.
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https://66.media.tumblr.com/a1e45fc9ea2b285d52b488c48852f92c/tumblr_pr467hjVMU1ti7cwto1_1280.jpg Bloody Lake Rendezvous upper field 5/5/2019. i forget I have a camera now so I took only one photo a few hours before the event closed.
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That looks like it was a good rendezvous! I shall put up some pics of the Fair when I can.
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I found an event that wasn't underwater. Chain Lakes Rendezvous is near Cedar Rapids Iowa. A small but fun, family oriented event. The old bridge is closed to vehicles now and used as a footbridge for the park. On Saturday night it is lit up with candle lanterns for a party after the potluck dinner.
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I found an event that wasn't underwater.
:/ I heard there was flooding in the Midwest but I didn't realize it was that bad! Hope everyone is doing okay over there, and glad that there was an event that wasn't flooded out!
Chain Lakes Rendezvous is near Cedar Rapids Iowa. A small but fun, family oriented event. The old bridge is closed to vehicles now and used as a footbridge for the park. On Saturday night it is lit up with candle lanterns for a party after the potluck dinner.
That's really pretty! Sounds like a good time.
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I traveled 4 hours north into Wisconsin for a new Living history event in Edgar Wi. last week.
first photo-sunrise in northern Wisconsin.
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Nothing says rendezvous like a tipi.
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I had a friend take some photos of me and my camp for a portfolio I'm making to submit to juried events.
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My hammered dulcimer and flutes are ready for the public.
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The park we were in has an authentic pioneer cabin which was dismantled and moved into town from it's original location 5 miles out on a farm. It was inhabited until 1915 then used for storage until the 1970's when it was moved. It houses a museum now.
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I've been neglecting this site since the process to post is so clunky. Here are some photos of last week's event, one of my favorite ones, Galesburg Il Heritage Days 2019.
The view from my lodge.
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Morning mist rising from Lake Storey.
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A small part of the camp. My lodge is left of center.
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One day's events.
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This year's quilt raffle. I never win.
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Guest of honor at the Saturday hog roast. I got some of the jowl meat, considered the best part. It pays to photograph the chef.
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Camp meeting. A pie auction follows.
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A Union troop marched over to borrow a picnic pavillion one rainy morning for breakfast.
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Saturday night dance on the Civil War side of the event.
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Aw, fun!
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That looks amazing! Would have loved to attend the Lewis and Clark panel - their story is fascinating, especially the bit about how their native guide unexpectedly found her missing brother on the other side of the country, and some of their plant discoveries. I actually have a Lewisia.
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Had to google Lweisia, very pretty. The Lewis and Clark fife and drum corp is an award winning 1806 signal corp that can be hired for events like this. It is composed of children, boys and girls, who travel the country performing. I hear they do an annual event at Jefferson's home, Monticello.They make a march-through camp and stop to perform 4 or more songs at intervals.Then they go to the civil war side and take part in the battle. They are having a more interseting childhood than I did. I hope this link works.
https://james-karase.squarespace.com/
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It did work, thank you. Very interesting, especially the music. The Monticello gardens are fascinating, and hearing those kids perform there would be great.
I was delighted to find my Lewisia, and hope eventually to have a collection of different forms and colours. I’m very much into plants that are unusual, beautiful and edible or otherwise useful. Lewisia is an antiscorbutic, that is, a plant that was eaten to prevent scurvy, as well as being used both by native peoples and early settlers as an application to help heal burns. The pretty flowers are a bonus.
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I'm home for a few days between events as the summer winds down here. Here are some photos.
One last shot from Galesburg where a large branch speared an audience pavillion in the early morning so no one was hurt. It had everyone looking up at the trees above their camp to see if they were under a widowmaker like this.
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By coincidence at my next event a willow tree came down next to a tent of my friends. Choose a good tree is the moral here.
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Some squatters moved in on my garage while at Galesburg. I had to kill off the nest reluctantly since it was too close to a busy sidewalk.
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Sunrise at my camp at Baraboo Wisconsin where I go every Labor Day.
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Front view at Barboo.
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Lower end of west camp where I set up next to old friends.
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A FB group I belong to encourages sunrise pictures. Here are two members of my reenactor club, Yellowstone Flint and Cap.
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One of my attempts at an artsy shot with the timely appearance of a jet next to the tipi poles. I named it Two Worlds.
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Another club member starts his breakfast fire. The pyramid tent is very popular though not period correct. It has gotten acceptance at most events through force of numbers because they are so very easy to set up. I've had three over the years and love them but I have the wedge now for accuracy.
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Lower end of east camp. We hug the treeline because it's usually in the 90's this weekend. This year was much cooler, in the high 70's and down to 46 one night.
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I had a zen moment and can now manage to apply the cotton and rosin well enough to make sounds that approximate music so the hurdy gurdy has joined my demonstration of period music for the public. I can barely play it but it's a hit since no one in this country has ever seen one.
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Sign at the gate as we leave at rendezvous's end.
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As I prepare to head up into northern Wisconsin this Wednesday after a week's break of rest here are some photos from my previous event in Platteville Wi. just an hour from home. This was my first time demonstrating at this popular history camp. I needed to compile a portfolio of photos and a description of my demonstration as this is a juried event.
The big M was built of whitewashed stones in 1936 for the School of Mining in Platteville. This whole area was a mining district in the early days of white settlement due to the large deposits of lead found here.
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The French camp. France was the first to explore the interior of the continent. Most events have a significant French presence in the Midwest.
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The Platteville history camp is held to educate the public and has a huge school day on Friday. This year's count was 1,725 kids which was down from the usual 2,000. I was unable to take time for photos of the throng of kids we had in the mid-morning. I took these on my lunch break. The event is well organized and provides a watchman for demonstrators on their lunch break.
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The camp flags, US, French, and English, were lowered to half mast after a long time demonstrator suffered a heart attack and passed away during the parade on Saturday morning. I did not know know him personally but heard a lot of his history during the memorials held for him.
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Sunday, the last day of the event, came with day-long misty rain that soaked everything. Here my canvas has been laid out in my back yard while I wait for the rains to end on Monday so I can set my camp up to dry. even mildew proofed canvas will start to mold within 24 hours of being folded up while wet.
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I took advantage of the backyard camp to test new ways to set up my canvas. I found longer ridge poles which added 3 more feet to my demo area. My previous setup was more for shade than rain,overlapping the ridge pole on both ends to make a portcullis in front and to cover some of my wedge, which left me feeling a bit cramped demonstrating in rainy weather. I was surprised how many people still came with their kids on such a wet day.
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Nice photos. Hope your canvas dries okay. I generally enjoy schools days at reenactment events, except for 2016 when we had a group from a particularly snotty girls school, who were thoroughly rude and disruptive. But generally kids are great, and often ask questions that lead to really interesting discussions. And they want to know about the stuff that interests me, such things as what people ate, wore or used for medicine, what stories and songs they knew, what people did to pass time before there was TV, what games people played, what school was like and such. And demonstrations such as cooking, making cider, mead or beer (the muscular lads are always willing to lend a hand with the cider press), and making cold cream and getting a sample to take home for their mum are always fun. I use a Roman cold cream recipe that persisted through the middle ages and is still used in the present day.
I am usually in the same pavilion as the Viking field kitchen, so I bring in big containers of growing herbs and vegetables which both of us can use in our demonstrations, especially if it is one of the years I am running the apothecary workshop. Just near us we have the tanner (the kids love his work because it is smelly, gross and very hands-on), the cooper, the in-progress Viking longboat being worked on, a bloke building handlooms, making spindles and such small tools, and a musical instrument maker, who this year made a kantele.
In 2020 I think they want me singing and storytelling, and perhaps doing the apothecary.
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I’m doing the Gumeracha Craft Market today, a monthly event for an interesting mix of traditional craftsfolk, reenactors and folk who sell stuff that reenactors are likely to use. I have a leatherworker on one side of me sitting there making bags, pouches and belts between customers, and on the other side is a chap building handlooms, spindles and the like and demonstrating handweaving. There are a lot of fabric crafts, a bookbinder and other useful skills on show. I am selling useful plants for cottage gardens, herbs, seeds, plant craft things, dye plants, perfumed oils, massage oils and flowers, as well as handing out interesting ancient recipes. Later I will be storytelling for the kids. It’s fun.
However, what I wanted to do here was to pass on details of the Viking longship project I’ve talked about before. They are presently looking for helpers, and are happy to train people in woodworking and boatbuilding skills. If you are interested, contact Kim Bellette on 0407 187 161, or vikinglongshipsa@hotmail.com, or facebook.com/vikinglongshipsa.
They are working in several locations not far from Adelaide, and are a nice crew.
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Something I just found out earlier than expected (because the person who runs the craft market is also the person who runs the Gumeracha Mediaeval Fair): dates for the 2020 Fair are Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May, 2020, at Federation Park, Gumeracha, South Australia. Federation Park is on the left of the road as you drive from Adelaide, past the main town, next to the Town Hall, but before you get to the Big Rocking Horse.
I will be in the Viking Village near the footbridge across the creek, either singing and telling stories or running the Apothecary, or both. Hope to see some of you there again next year!
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Finally sat down and organized the photos from my last three events. I'll do each event separately starting with Mole Lake Wisconsin.This was the first Buckskinner rendezvous sponsored by a sovereign Indian nation. It was held on a former bluegrass festival grounds behind the tribal owned casino. The fest was cancelled years ago due to concerns about illicit activities happening there. Now they want to get good use out of the infrastructure in place for sports for the young and history events as a part of their annual wild rice festival. First: the casino.
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We had 20 camps. All reenactors were there by invite only.
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Organizers made a 4-part firing range for Hawk and Knife throw, bow and arrow, atlatl, and black powder. They even dug ground to make a backstop berm for the guns.
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Some of the reenactors. Our Booshway with wife and hard working daughter.
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My camp neighbors, Porkbelly and Thunderbutt, who helped with the shoots.
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A gunsmith and his wife who portrays a schoolmarm.
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A flintknapper.
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A foggy September morning in northern Wisconsin.
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Some better views of the paint job on that tipi.
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The event went over well for being a such new thing there and some rainy weather.The locals provided the food vendor with authentic Native American frybread and a fantastic cream of wild rice soup among other goodies. 30 camps at least are already planned for next year.
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Those are excellent photos, especially the one with your wife and daughter.
And a wild rice festival.....wow! I could get right into that! Do you have a recipe for the frybread? Mine never seems to come out quite as I wish.
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That is the Booshway's family. I never married and have no kids. I'm no cook so I don't know the recipe for frybread. It tasted quite similar to the bread made by most non-native vendors so it should be available online. The big difference was vendors stretch theirs out into a large pancake while natives make theirs like a large donut without a hole.
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Next to last rendezvous of the 2019 season was at Fort Atkinson Ia. This fort dates to the 1840's, built to watch over the Winnebago tribe during their removal from Wisconsin. After construction by the army it was manned by local militia as the regulars were needed for the Mexican-American war. The fort was abandoned in 1849.
Sunrise after early set-up day.
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Camp had filled in by later in the 2nd day.
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Another good paint job.
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Restored barracks serves as the museum.
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Mark, from Night Sun flutes was just a couple tents down from me. I own several of his flutes.
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Of course I bought another flute. I like his small ones for letting kids play with them. The size fits their little hands better and I play my other flutes so I don't catch whatever is going around the schools.
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This bird totem is an owl. Onni should approve.
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Back home for a week before my last event. Here is a red dawn. The weather was rapidly changing into fall.
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Last rendezvous of 2019 is usually Ft. Obie, a fictional fort outside of Colona Il. about an hour south of me. It's a small event that saw better days and is trying to rebuild. I've gone to it for years and continue to support it.
A red dawn at home a few days before the vous.
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A portion of the camp. It was cold and very windy the whole time so I was not very inspired to take photos.
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It's Ft Obie which is in October so of course it was frosty in the mornings.
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A welcome summer survivor.
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Harbinger of things to come.
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Keeping warm on a chilly morning. I've used woodstoves in my lodge for over 20 years.
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But I had to face facts about my COPD so I sold my stove at Ft Obie and bought a propane heater.
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Back home where my kitty was was glad to see me after my repeated absences of the past two months.
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My back yard a couple of weeks later after an early snow.
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I stopped shaving after arriving at Ft Obie and since it was my season finale I decided I would let my beard grow out until Christmas to see how much I would look like Santa Claus. I had a beard in my 20's for a few years but didn't like it since it was scraggly and patchy at that age. I will shave it off after the holidays and will also cut my hair before Spring. Photos taken of me this summer convinced me that my natural hair has gotten too thin to wear long anymore. I have ordered an 18th century white wig with the curls by each ear and a tail wrapped in ribbon for my presentation from here on. I found a wigmaker online based in the Kentucky/Tennessee region who looks to have a quality line of products. I'll post pics when it arrives sometime in February.
Couldn't fit this into my previous post. Here my lilac bush still has its leaves after the 1st snow.
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Itchy beard #1
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Itchy beard #2
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I like your beard, maybe you should keep it. A wig would give an interesting effect with your face - very 1700s.
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You aren't the only one who has told me to keep the beard but my mind is set. Facial hair is fiercely debated in pre-civil war reenactor sites here and I stay on the shaved side of the debate. A colonial American of the 18th century would be clean shaven. Only someone of the very lowest class would go unshaven, or people with religious reasons such as Jews. Anyone well dressed with a beard would have risked physical confrontation in the streets. Such incidents are recorded. So I will shave my beard and trim my hair short and wear a wig as a balding colonial gentleman of my period would have done. I recently read a quote from a tory who had his wig snatched from his head during a scuffle between whigs and torries during the stamp act riots in Boston who said "time and his barber had done for his real hair". He speaks for me as well. I'm tired of the effort I must take all year long to care for my remaining long hair which no longer gives me the effect I want during the 6 months I do my demonstrations.
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Cultural differences. My Celtic folk regarded beards as something to be cultivated and shown off. And didn’t wear wigs unless in a social situation that required it, like a royal court. Whereas the English and their colonies were right into wigs as decoration and a social status thing. With your face you will probably look good either way.
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Haven't had time to comment earlier, but you take great photos.
But what enquiring minds want to know, this side of Christmas:
Is the beard still on?
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The beard will last the holidays and expire with the old year. I bought a Santa hat to take a picture on Xmas eve which I will post.
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Looking forward to seeing it!
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*happy clappy*
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Merry Christmas! As promised here comes Santa Claus!
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Here are some photos of my porch lights. I like to use strings of solid colors to paint with a broad brush. Blue for the sky which is usually slate gray this time of year and summer green instead of winter brown.
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Those are lovely pics. Yes, the beard does suit you. My husband has a very similar one, though his is completely white, which looks odd because his hair is still quite dark in parts. Suits him though.
And your lights are lovely! Very restrained and dignified as well as seasonally appropriate. May they keep the darkness far from you! It’s the dark of the moon tonight. Happy Christmas to you and yours!
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My Buckskinner club's annual dinner party in on Feb. 8th so I shaved off my beard. My 18th century wig might arrive by then so I cut my hair for the first time in 24 years to be ready to test the wig out. I had some fun cutting the beard down. I rather liked the fu manchu.
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I'll post a follow-up to my new look with the wig and my period clothes when it arrives.
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I will be very curious to see how you look in the wig. To my mind the beard is slightly better for the shape of your face than the clean-shaven look, but see how you look when it all settles down.
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Both the Gumeracha Mediæval Fair and the Mylor English Ale have been Definitely cancelled for this year, because Covid19. Damnit! We will just have to make Fair and Ale extra good for 2021.
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Events across the US are cancelling as far ahead as the end of May. My own club's event which would have opened two weeks from today cancelled on March 22. My hopes are fading for this whole year since I can't risk exposure without a vaccine. I intend to set up my camp in the back yard when it warms up a bit more to check equipment and have a place to escape the house. I've been meaning to learn dutch oven cooking and now have no excuse to put it off any longer. At least I can get a literal taste of camping this way.
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Just as I had given up hope my wig arrived this morning. I have mixed feelings about the quality but I am no expert on these matters. I was worried because the maker was 3 months late, his website had vanished, and his FB page had not had a new post in months. There was also a complaint on his FB reviews that he had defrauded another customer and was no longer answering email after the complainant had returned a shoddy wig for replacement. I am keeping what I received and will see how it goes. It is brown when I asked for white but since ordering it I learned that darker colored wigs were the daily style while white wigs were for formal occasions. I can always use pomade and powder I suppose, though at this point I am not inclined to make a mess of the thing. I was afraid I was out $500.so I'm just glad I have something to show for it. I won't be doing more business with this sketchy character again.
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Glad you got something, and hope it works for you. Sounds a bit shonky! $500. is certainly a lot for a wig! Might be cheaper to actually go to a professional wigmaker in person.
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The only other 18th century wigmaker I could find wants $1,000.
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That sounds crazy! I wonder where theatre companies get theirs?
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Update: It's been over a year since I looked for wigmakers. I see now there are two modern wigmakers who have a sideline of 18th century style wigs but both use synthetic hair instead of human or horsehair. They sell for less, @ $300, which I could also have gotten from my dodgy maker. I may get one in white for formal settings but not at the moment. Let's see how the one I have works out if I even get a chance to use it this year. There are theatrical wigs available but at @$20.00-80.00 I doubt their quality. They might pass when you're up on a stage but not in a reenactment setting which is more person to person. In an amusing aside my search has led to a rash of female wigs and hair product ads on my computer. Lots of fashion magazines too.
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There are theatrical wigs available but at @$20.00-80.00 I doubt their quality. They might pass when you're up on a stage but not in a reenactment setting which is more person to person.
I understand! You don't want to be seen as a farb.
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I made good on my plan to learn Dutch oven cooking in my camp which has been set up in my back yard since late May. I have always been a reluctant cook but cast iron is catching it seems. I'm now collecting quite a set of ovens, skillets,pie and bread pans, a pipkin, and assorted utensils. I do have a tendency to get "enthused" as my nearest and dearest put it.
My very first bake was cornbread, mandatory in the US for bakers.
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My 2nd attempt was better.
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My kitty likes to help me in my camp. She has always enjoyed it when I set up canvas in the yard for whatever reasons.
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A view of my camp with a bake in progress.
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My camp shortly after setting it up in May.
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Nice little camp! What sort of fuel do you use for cooking? And the cornbread looks good! I love doing that sort of cooking on a wood fire!
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I use charcoal briquets for now for easier heat control while I'm still learning. My plan is to switch to lump charcoal for better historical appropriateness after I get more experience. I find tending a wood fire to be a tedious chore. Many events provide abysmal quality of wood, my own club included, while bringing in outside wood is banned to prevent insect infestation. The emerald ash borer and oak wilt is devastating parks in this country. Also fires are required to be attended at all times while I always want to roam at events. There is a further problem of fire bans due to drought conditions which are more frequent these days.
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Those are very good reasons to consign history to history, methinks.
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On a happier note my group I camp with at our club's rendezvous, the Sugar River Fencibles, held our First Annual Fall Gathering and Black Powder Shoot at the club campground this weekend.
The upper field where the cabin is located. At Rendezvous it, and the lower field, is filled end to end with canvas lodges of all kinds.
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The cabin is 40 years old and required repairs to the foundation and walls this year. All that's left now is to rechink the walls.
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Cap'n Fritz in center, the leader of our little F&I militia, usually wears a flashier uniform than bib overalls but period attire was not required at this event.
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Brats, veal sausage, and hot dogs were the entree. We're in Wisconsin after all.
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Brats, cornbread and brownies are my 3 favorite food groups. I made the cornbread in my Dutch oven.
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Damnit! 2021 looks like a bit of a bust, but at least something is happening! I have been holding off on posting events because everything was up in the air with Covid and other crises, but at last I know what is happening.
The Gumeracha Mediæval Fair is happening this weekend, May 8 and 9, but it is sadly reduced. 2020 didn’t happen because Covid and other disasters, one of which was the organiser who had run the event for over 20 years very nearly succumbing to congestive cardiac failure. Took her months to recover but she is now back on deck. However, she won’t be running it this year and the people who took it over are making a bit of a dogs breakfast of it. Most of the genuinely historical aspect has been stripped out - things like the tanner, falconer, fletcher, brewer, cooper, field kitchens, the better blacksmiths, musical instrument maker and builder of weaving looms have been abandoned for things the new management think will make more money. The tone is now more Disneyland or the nastier kind of American Ren Faire than anything historical or educational. All lycra fairy dresses and bouncy castles. Also you have to book online, no paying on the day, which will put off a lot of the local audience. Ah well, better luck next year.
The Mylor English Ale is also happening but very scaled down. No torchlight procession, craft market, mummers’ plays, guisers, giants and probably not much of a bonfire. The concert is going ahead, as is the Peace ceremony, but most of the other events are either much reduced or not happening. No Damh the Bard because he hasn’t been able to travel this year. He is however doing a series of free At Home Concerts on the internet to keep people’s spirits up. Access those by looking up ‘Damh the Bard’ on you-tube. I am meant to be doing part of the public Peace Ceremony but getting me there isn’t sorted yet. We can only hope that next year is better, and we are all around to see it!
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For once in my life I would like to go to a medieval fair that is well put together. Not that the fair here isn't fun. I still look forward to it every year but sometimes I just want something a little more genuine. Probably not this year but maybe next I'll get myself a new cloak and belt.
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Yeah, real-history events are rare and precious. The Gumeracha fair used to be good, with a lot of demonstrations of crafts ranging from boat building to falconry to smithcraft among many others, and people would learn things as well as being amused. I am usually the storyteller, with a bit of music and singing, but often also have taught smithcraft, brewing, fabric dyeing, foraging and camp cooking, perfumery and the like, and I usually run the apothecary. I miss that.
At least the Mylor English Ale will be back in full when covid is over. That one is run by the Pagan community here in South Australia, who are a consistent group: despite being spread across many different Pagan faiths, we cooperate to save everyone’s history and traditions, and we celebrate them all at the Ale. The Mylor English Ale is on the internet, if you look it up you will find lots of good pictures of past events. A pity about this year.
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My new laptop arrived yesterday which took several hours to set up and transfer files from my "old" laptop which failed me after only one year. It seems everything has to happen at once as my Buckskinner club held its annual Rendezvous last week during which my new 5 string hurdy gurdy arrived at home from Poland, my 3 string HG broke its melody string on the 2nd day of the vous, and my laptop arrived this week. Here are some photos from Bloody Lake, named for a battle during the Blackhawk Indian War.
View of the lower field where I and my friends camp. My lodge is to the right of the tipi.
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The upper field. The two roads are trader's row. We had 24 traders this year.
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A covid side hustle for the band Three Pints Gone, who the club hires to perform over the weekend.
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My great great grandfather J. Wight was in clan MacIntyre. He emigrated in the 1850's and fought for the union in the civil war.
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This fine beaver pelt was donated by Mike of Riverine traders. The club held a raffle for it.
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Here is Mike teaching local 6th graders about the fur trade. He traps and tans them himself.
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French voyageurs were the first to explore the interior of the frontier, bringing trade good to the tribes to barter for pelts. The canoes were used as a shelter at night.
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Blacksmith Matthew builds portable forges with bellows which he uses for demos and sells to others smiths.
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That's enough for today. I will post more photos over the next few days.
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Do you still want a wig? A grey horsehair wig has turned among stuff a friend found in a history and antiques crawl and she can’t use it. I can email photos if you like?
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sure let's have a look. I may not be able to see it for a few days as I'm off to another rendezvous in an hour and reception is always spotty on my phone.
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S’okay! I’ll PM the photos to you, not good at getting photos up here. Might take me a day or so.
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Midwestmutt, dunno if you ever got the wig measurements I emailed to you? If they didn’t arrive I can always resend them? I just skipped over this thread looking for something else and realised that in the chaos of the last couple of months of my life I had not realised that I hadn’t heard back from you. I sent it to your other email as well as by PM. If the size is close but slightly off I believe it is not a major hassle to loosen or tighten a wig - I hate to see such a carefully made thing go to waste!
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I did send an answer but it must have gotten lost in the international ethernet. It comes up too small for me. My measurements are 24, 12 15. Can you sell at one of your events? I'm not sure if your timeline would be correct for it. At worst if you send it to me I could find someone who does 18th century for it. I am curious, is it a barrister's wig?
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If you can PM or email me your postal address I can try sending it to you, and yes, I believe it may have been a barrister’s wig. Better to see it in use than wasted, which it would be here because as you say our reenactment period is much earlier. Hope somebody can find a home for it!
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Yastreb, Liz and I are going to the Mediæval And Rare Trades Festival over the weekend. Liz is singing. I am singing, storytelling and selling plants and seeds of dye plants, herbs and cottage garden flowers of the period. And answering questions! Yastreb is spectating and cheering us on. Should be fun. I should have put up notice of this earlier, but chaos here at present!
The old Mediæval Fair has been split into two sites this year. One about ten miles away which is the part like an American Ren Fair, all high profit floaty costumes and decorative stuff, and the one we are going to at the original Gumeracha site, with the coopers, tanners, dyers, blacksmiths, woodworkers, loom builders, weavers and spinners, luthiers and the folk building a replica Viking ship. More my idea of interesting.
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Life is so unfair! There is a principality war three hours away from me, and the Gumeracha fair on a distant continent - and I can't go to either one!
(Lack of requisite camping gear is one reason, but more compelling is that others' experiences have shown that Covid remains a threat; and too many people don't take that seriously any more. I can't afford to risk having that virus follow me home to someone who has several risk factors for a serious/potentially fatal outcome.)
Okay, frustrated outburst over! I hope everyone has a wonderful time at the Gumeracha fair. Any chance of video records?
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Yastreb, Liz and I are going to the Mediæval And Rare Trades Festival over the weekend. Liz is singing. I am singing, storytelling and selling plants and seeds of dye plants, herbs and cottage garden flowers of the period. And answering questions! Yastreb is spectating and cheering us on. Should be fun. I should have put up notice of this earlier, but chaos here at present!
The old Mediæval Fair has been split into two sites this year. One about ten miles away which is the part like an American Ren Fair, all high profit floaty costumes and decorative stuff, and the one we are going to at the original Gumeracha site, with the coopers, tanners, dyers, blacksmiths, woodworkers, loom builders, weavers and spinners, luthiers and the folk building a replica Viking ship. More my idea of interesting.
Oh that sounds like so much fun!! There was one in northern NY I used to go to all the time. I loved listening to the stories, recreations, craftspeople and the artisans. Plus amazing shopping!! (beeswax candles, hand made clothing..sigh..) The only one that is close to me now is more like a disney roadshow than a true ren fair. :( (I almost said upstate NY. Which would have pegged me right off as someone from the city. Most people from the city consider the rest of NY state "upstate" ha ha)
I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful time!!
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We had an excellent time! I made a profit selling plants, seeds, and homemade lavender fudge (I grow the culinary lavender, the plants, mostly things that once were used for dye, food, medicine and magic, and the cottage garden plants from which I harvest the seeds). We caught up to old friends, made new ones, and heard all the news. One of the old friends was an old botany student of mine from nearly forty years ago, who had not known I did reenactment. A nice reunion! Plus I got to sing and tell folktales. Liz also had a good day singing (she is part of the Umbrella a Capella choir).
Yastreb tried his hand at storytelling, (he has the makings of a fine storyteller) and fun was had all round. With any luck, we may do it again next year. No videos, but Yastreb took some photos. I will ask him to post some. Because we were outdoors, we have hopefully avoided Covid. It was rainy, but most of what fell on us was melting ice from the trees. There were unusual groups like a Roman Legion and the Ukrainian dancers.
Star was okay while we were away, which is a relief. He misses going to the Fairs.
And Buteo, back in my travelling days I went to a number of American events. I enjoyed one of the early Pennsic Wars.
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I almost said upstate NY. Which would have pegged me right off as someone from the city. Most people from the city consider the rest of NY state "upstate" ha ha
People who live upstate use the term "upstate" all the time.
The trick is: people in New York City use it to refer to all the rest of the state. And New York City is always "downstate". But once you're north of New York City: the line between upstate and downstate is maybe about 20 to 50 miles south of wherever the person using the terms lives.
I'm in the Finger Lakes. We're "upstate" to those of us who live here -- but we're "downstate" to people in, say, St Lawrence County; or probably even Oswego. And, to us, anything south of say, around Binghamton, is "downstate" -- which includes a whole lot of territory that New York City people call "upstate".
So whether using the term pegs you as a NYCity person depends on what area you're using it for.
(The other part of the trick is which term is pejorative (if either; they're both often used neutrally.) But if one of them's pejorative: in the city, that's "upstate". Go much north of the city, though, and "downstate" is the pejorative one.)
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My camping season opened a couple of weeks ago with Bloody Lake Rendezvous, sponsored by the club I belong to. I had hoped to go to another today but I pulled a muscle between my ribs Monday. Who knew gardening could be so dangerous!
I can cook but prefer to let someone else do the work when I can. We had 3 food vendors this year. Sorry but here pies mean fruit pies.
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Other vendors, general store, porcupine quillwork hatbands, bracelets, and belt pouches.
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More later. It's bedtime.
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These are good. I particularly like the quillwork!
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These look wonderful!
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I love fry pies...especially when still warm.
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Agreed, @dmeck7755 ! They're a handy snack at camp, or anywhere else!
And I hope you feel better soon, @midwestmutt - those weeds must have had good roots!
The hatbands and bracelets are a lot of fun. And I'm very impressed with the animal depictions on the pouches!
@midwestmutt , have you collected any of this type of handicraft? I've seen the pictures of your camp and instruments - the dulcimer struck me as particularly pretty (yes, I did catch that pun, and decided to leave it in there :haw:), and wondered if you went in for these items as well. What is the cultural significance of the designs? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder the goal?
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The woman who makes the quillwork comes from South Dakota to visit relatives in Wisconsin and stays for Bloody Lake. She told me her designs have no historic significance, they mostly show the skill of the maker. I have bought hatbands from her which cost $25 per row. I had to sell my hammered dulcimers because dry eye disease makes my vision too fuzzy when I concentrate too hard on things like the guide marks on the bridges. I made sure they went to fellow reenactors so they will still be heard at vous.
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So glad you could find good homes for your hammered dulcimers; that's not always easy.
Thank you for the wonderful pictures of Bloody Lake. I look forward to going to events again later in the year; it has been a while.
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A few more vendors and scenes from Bloody Lake.
Mark Nelson is a friend and one of my favorite flutemakers. I have around 7 of his flutes I've picked up over the years. Here he is explaining how he makes them by hand to a potential customer and another pic of his wares.
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Trapper is an old friend and recreation gun seller. He's keeping the cannon however.
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Another vendor sells knives as well as guns.
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Every year a puppy is declared most cute by popular acclaim. Here is this year's champion, Rusty the adorable.
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A small camp under an oilcloth diamond fly. I camped for years in a similar setup. Good times in a camp that went up and down in 15 minutes.
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Some of the friends I camp with at Bloody. We are a French and Indian War militia called the Sugar River Fencibles and gather in a common mess tent to eat and socialize.
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Those flutes look amazing! As a clarinet player myself I have always been interested in the process of making wind instruments - how the instruments are hollowed out, and also particularly how people who make handmade instruments know where to place the finger holes in order to keep the instrument in tune!
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All great pictures @midwestmutt !
And your friend Mark has great taste in wood selection for those flutes! The figuring in the grain, the occasional inclusion a raw surface - each one of the flutes has very distinct character.
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Lovely pictures!! The puppy is most cute!!
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The Gumeracha Mediæval and Rare Crafts Fair is on over the first weekend in May at the Gumeracha Park in country South Australia. I will be performing there as a singer and storyteller, also selling dyes suitable to the period as well as seeds and live plants used to make the dyes. Yastreb may well be coming with me as an apprentice storyteller (I think he is going to be very good, people enjoyed his work last year).
My friend Liz will also be there singing with the Umbrella a Capella choir. The whole event promises to be great fun. We will have tanners, blacksmiths, wood turners, musical instrument makers, brewers, coopers, boat builders (and a Viking boat), the Spinners and Weavers Guild and all manner of other interesting stuff. Plus dancing (including an amazing Ukrainian Traditional Dance group), plus falconers, fighters, horse riding displays, wandering musicians and more. Lots of good food too. If you can’t see me (my avatar picture is a pretty good cartoon of how I look in real life) ask around for Bev the Bard.
The Mylor English Ale is also on at the Mylor Oval and Community Hall on May 18th, though I probably won’t be there this year since I had already agreed to do a different gig at Mannum before the date for the Ale was finalised, dammit. I may get there for the evening part of the event, the torchlight parade and bonfire, but I doubt it unless my transport situation changes dramatically.
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Wow, it always sounds like such a good time when you talk about the Medieval Faire. I really ned to get around there at some point. (This year, a concert. That's what I get for being in 2 bands.) I'm willing to bet Yastreb can spin a tale, too. But I can't decide whether a spooky story or a humourous story would be more suited....
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I have known him to do both, as well as epic fantasy. It’s a pity Star is stuck in hospital at present, he is also pretty good. A storyteller I think you would also enjoy is Dusty Grey, the tall guy with long white hair and beard and a wizard’s staff, whom you might remember from some of the early photos in this thread. He is with me and the Fair falconer in one of those pictures. His wife runs the Fair. A few years back Dusty and I shared a storytelling gig at the North Kapunda Hotel, reputed to be Australia’s most haunted pub, as part of the Lowender Kernewek, a big Celtic Festival here in SA. It was tremendous fun. We both do singing and storytelling, and bounce off each other very well. Dusty is another bushie, he grew up on a farm in the Snowy Mountains (the area from which come tales like The Man from Snowy River and two of my personal favourites The Man From Adaminaby and the origin story of spider orchids).
He spent a lot of his life as a bushman and wilderness guide, which is where I know him from, and these years is retired (he is a good deal younger than I am but still in his mid seventies) and sometimes works as a boatbuilder, working on projects such as recreating some of the big fishing canoes used on the Murray River by Aboriginal tribes of the area. We hope to sing together at this Fair.
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Oh wow, the fair sounds amazing! I hope it all goes well.
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I am certainly looking forward to it!
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I wish I could get there!
but I hope to be planting early spring planted crops, here on the other side of the world.
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Róisín, I hope you have a wonderful time at the fair. It is really too bad Star can't go with you; maybe there will be a suitable souvenir for you to take home to him.
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Buteo, I hope so! And thorny, I hope the earthquake didn’t reach as far as your farm?
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No earthquake up here; and it wasn't much of an earthquake where it was -- enough shaking to feel, from what I've read, but not enough to do significant damage.
Probably the wrong thread for this, but we do have a solar eclipse coming up. I live about 10 miles south of the totality line; and will be joining up with a friend and heading north far enough to get a bit over two minutes' totality on another friend's farm. Weather forecast is a pretty good chance, but not certainty, of clear skies. Traffic's supposed to be pretty horrendous; we can travel partly on back roads, but due to geology (lakes and major streams) will have to get through a couple of traffic chokepoints.
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Róisín,
Sounds like fun! I hope you have a wonderful time
thorny.
We are going to try and make the trip :) to get there on time. I had booked time at one of the local wineries "watch party". (Took vacation and everything..)The last time I had seen an eclipse was in 1972..
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What state?
(thorny, in wine country, New York State)
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Living in wine country is good. I’m more likely to make mead or cider myself, but I have occasionally made wine, and my mate Trev makes the best Shiraz, and another friend has access to a small patch of pre-phylloxera shiraz grapes, of which he has given me several cuttings. I have one for myself, have planted one in the community garden where it is doing well, and given one to Liz. Where I live is in the little triangle where the Barossa Valley butts up against the Murraylands and the Adelaide Hills - very good wine country.
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What state?
(thorny, in wine country, New York State)
Sorry. Limited internet. Just got time back to go over my stuff!! We stayed in a B&B in Penn Yan and went to a winery for a watch party. (Cayuga Lake) All was great until about 3pm. The clouds started to roll in and as the eclipse made the world darker and darker, the clouds did also. So we did not get to see anything. After it was all done it started to pour.
What was rather interesting, when it started to go total;all of the birds and other animals went totally silent. Even the wind ceased. It became about 5 degrees cooler and was night time. It was quite eerie. We were on a hill, so were able to see for many miles. Outside of the totality area we saw light surrounding us. It was really neat. We never saw the actual eclispe. But we did get to feel it.
Plus the watch party had some great BBQ and wine, so it was not so bad...
We also visited some wineries :)
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Yeah, eclipses are strange like that. I have noticed that while many animals just settle as if going to sleep for the night, and dairy cows head in early to be milked, a few animals seem worried or upset, and my bees race back to the hive before the light really begins to fade. The big bluetongued lizard who lives under the woodbox on my back verandah goes about her normal routine without seeming to be bothered by the change in light, and I have also noticed snakes seemingly untroubled by the changes.
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my bees race back to the hive before the light really begins to fade.
If I remember correctly, bees can see both extra colors (ultraviolet) and polarization of the light, and actually navigate by that extra information ... surely someone did already think to film an eclipse through corresponding filters to see whether the visual effects might be even more impressive that way?
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Interesting idea! I wonder if anyone has?
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Sorry. Limited internet. Just got time back to go over my stuff!! We stayed in a B&B in Penn Yan
You were very close to me! our route in one direction from/to the viewing site went through Penn Yan, and it's my farmer's market town (not open till late May, though.)
-- and yes, we had the same cloud experience.
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You were very close to me! our route in one direction from/to the viewing site went through Penn Yan, and it's my farmer's market town (not open till late May, though.)
-- and yes, we had the same cloud experience.
I forgot how close you are when we go to the area. Maybe one time, we can meet.
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Maybe we can. Let me know when you're next going to be in the area.
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All was great until about 3pm. The clouds started to roll in and as the eclipse made the world darker and darker, the clouds did also. So we did not get to see anything. After it was all done it started to pour.
This game seems to be rigged (https://xkcd.com/2921/) like that. >:D