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Are you coming diwn for Pirate Faire?

I remembered! It's On Writing Well by William Zinsser. He's really good on explaining things in a clear, consise manner. Also his book Writing to Learn. Another good one is Elements of Style by William Strunk & E.B. White (of Sturat Little fame). Another consise, easy to read but, very helpful book on writing in English. There must be students who are English majors who would tutor you for very little money. Why not post something on a college bulletin board saying what you need and how much you can afford? Good luck and don't give up!

First thing I can think of is getting The Chicago Maunal of Style, It's a manual for writing that the standard for anyone writing for academic publication. It gives all the stadard guidles for grammer etc. It's good thing to have around. I have a really good book on creative writing packed away I think it's just called creative writing but I haven't seen it in over a year. You might want to look at University online courses too.

Thanks Seven but Jane has particpant's pass. If I remember correctly Fruita de Casa is near Gilroy and that's about 4 to 4 1/2 hours. I remember Navato being 6-7 hours to get there though. Stop by the woven clothing booth and say hello to her!

Saw this online http://channels.netscape.com/ns/celebrity/...cel20040827.htm

Thanks Privateer! I've forwarded your response and phone number to Jane. I think she managing the woven clothing booth.

Jane is my ex-roomate if anyone is going to NorCal and would like to rideshare give her a call. Here's her message: Hi! I am looking for someone to carpool with me to Casa De Fruta for Northern Faire, sharing gas and driving each weekend in my Toyota Camry. The plan is to leave from Pasadena each Friday between 5 & 6PM, and return late Sunday night an hour or so after closing. The drive is about 4.5 hours each way, and I would appreciate having a back up driver, especially for the drive home. I’m managing a booth, and will be in that booth the entire weekend. If anyone is interested, please give them my contact information below. I’ll also go to the Faire website to see if there is a bulletin board to post to. Ideally, one passenger is what I’m hoping for, but could possibly fit two. Please refer this to anyone you would like to spend 8 hours driving with!J Thanks! Jane Jane Sandmeier Group Sales & Tours The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108

No problem! I don't know which edition of Laroon's Criers you are using but mine has primary source commentary. Plate no. 50 is titledThe Squire of Alsatia and is supposed to be on a real person named Bully Dawson. Bully Dawson was of low birth but dressed as a man of quality in order to lures men into gambling and women of fortune in marriage. Sounds like the kind of guy you're looking for. Also plate no. 51 Madame Creswell was a coutesan of note till her beauty faded. She then turned into a bawd luring young women into prostitution. Sounds like something up your ally too. There is an endnote saying she's in Dictionary of National Biography but I haven't had a chance to look her up. I found a copy of London Spy on bookfinder.com for $30.00. There were some others for $50.00 if you're interested. I try to get primary source material whenever I can.

It's The Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. Unfortuneately I can't even see the derroterro or it's English counter part. They are in a vault underneath the Library made strong enough to withstand a nucelar blast. I think the other map I mentioned is there too. Among things like the bible Mary Queen of Scots was holding during her execution. They are only brought out on rare occasions. I'd love to handle that derroterro. Imagine holding something Capt. Morgan once held! This is a post doctoral library so unless you have a Phd. it hard to get a readers card. You have to fill out an appplication say what you want to see and why, get letters of recommendation from know scholars etc. I'm just so lucky I work here! I can do research use rare or refernce. But even the maps in the reference collection a wonderful and if you're in town you can be my guest and we'll look at them. :)

Just came across these: Libertines and radicals in early modern London : sexuality, politics, and literary culture, 1630-1685 / James Grantham Turner Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0521782791 The restoration rake-hero transformations in sexual understanding in seventeenth-century England /Harold Weber Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1986 ISBN 029910690X

Kass I came across some references in the endnotes to the edition of Laroon's Criers here in the Library. The Criers & Hawkers of London: Engravings & Drawing by Marcellus Laroon edited bt Sean Shesgreen, Stanford University Press 1990. For plate 51 lists London Spy a periodical by Edward Ward. There are bit about courteseans in it. You might try: The London-spy compleat in eighteen parts /by Ned Ward ; with an introduction by Ralph Straus London Casanova society, 1924 or The London spy : the vanities and vices of the town exposed to view by Ned Ward ; edited with notes by Arthur L. Hayward ; with eight full-page illustrations London : Cassell and Co., Ltd., [1927] In fact Master Edawrd Ward seems to have a rather prolific author. There are poems, travel logs (including Jamaica), maritime, ale, prositutes, & London Clubs. His dates are 1667-1731 so I think that cover your area. You proably could get the books I mentioned by ILL or on www.bookfinder.com.

It worked for Capt. Ned of the raging Queen! John Beluchi in a hot pink and lime green satin pirate outfit! From an old SNL skit about a young lad named Miles Copperswaite played by Michael Palin. Ah the memories! :)

It's proably the same thing. There's also an English version of the derrotero made from that same one that Morgan plundered here too. There are alot of maps and atlases in the library's collection. Including one that shows a city in the Arabian desert that doen't exist anymore. It was lost for centuries. The map was used to find it again.

Yup! Just look at the credits. Raleigh was played by Simon Jones of Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy.

removes hat, bows low My most humble apologies. Tis I who is in error. Apology accepted glady sir! (curtsey, smile).

Closest thing I know is a derrotero in the library I work at. A derrotero was a Spanish atlas that had detailed navagational charts and sailing instructions for the coast of the Americas. They were treated as state secrets meant only for Sapininsh use. They showed danger points and assisted in the correct fixing of a vessel's position when entering a port or sailing along the coast, indicating perfered watering places, harbor entrances, and achorages. They were in manuscript form. The one here was pillaged by Capt. Morgan himself during the sack of Panama. How's that for booty! :)

Played by Tom Baker of Doctor Who fame! A riot!

Try not to label us. We are people too. :) I'd suspect most of them, more often than not, tried passing as men. Blackjohn blackjohn Please look to my original reply. As I stated in trail testimony Anne Bonney & Mary Read were reported to have worn men's clothing when in battle and women's clothing the rest of the time. If you label yourself something that's your buisness not mine. I was not speaking of anyone in particular. I was merely staing that a faire patron did not have meet the same standard as a faire participant. Please don't get your nose out of joint over nothing. I certainly didn't mean it as an insult to you or anyone in particular. If you or anyone else wants to know of instances of women in men's clothing the following books are helpful: Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail by Suzzanne Stark ; Women Sailors & Sailors Women: Untold Maritime Hisorty by David Cordingly & The Tradition of Female Transvesitism in Early Modern europe by Rudolf Dekker & Lotte van de Pol.

nonononono, Bess, we said "worst" not "silliest. And the thing that scares me most, is that all this lot has SEEN it. Hey! Zorg long time no see! Where have you been? (hint, hint)

Well at least Pirates of the Plains had Tim Curry. Unfortuately it also had that really annoying kid who couldn't act. By the end of the movie I wanted to maroon him! I'll go with Ice Pirates :)

Vision of rash where baldrick cuts across bosum and a limp from wearing one boot!

Jeans aren't period... Oh you means genes! ;-) for the PA Ren Faire I guess whatever period during the Reniassance (we call it ealy modern here) the Faire is portraying. that could mean mid-15th c. to 1600. Sailor garb didn't change much right up to the 19th c. . As for fabric more cotton and less poly the better. Cooler that way. I don't think the costume nazis will lynch you for not being 100% period in your not particpants. BYW cotton isn't really period. Linen & wool are.

According to trial testomony Anne Bonney & Mary Read wore men's clothing in battle and female clothing other times. So slops, shirt, headkershift, and vest of the period would be fine.

Ahhh...but even back in the day most sailors on private vessels were not concerned with proper ediquite. In the tropics alot o' sailors wore them without breeches and maybe even without a shirt. Gets pretty hot in the carribbean. If'n ya can't find a pattern, or your not so good wit a thread an a needle, shoot me a message an I kin make a proper pair fer ye. Jus' need yer waist an inseam measurements. Made a pair fer meself an now I hardly ever wear me breeches anymore. Slops are jus' so much more comfortable... Naked pirates?!!!! Oh! Happy day!

Yeah... and like the fine Pirate she is it was sorta thieved!!! <whistling nonchalantly>