Northern CA Renaissance Faire Closing for Good

[Zephyr]

I'm imagining then you'd have to be out on a ship to see it.....

[the Royaliste]

Absolutely NOT!..I guess your perceptions of the Bay Area are a bit off...The dock for the activities is where the ships would tie up, and , as far as 'seeing', they'd be right in 'front' (Richardsons Bay), and, 'eck, when we do our greetings under the 'Gate to the Cityfront, we look like monsters seven miles out, due to the perceived optics over water!....Yo! Ho!

[Zephyr]

I'll confess to never having walked the bay with the idea of view'n a sea battle in mind (and it's been a long time....I'd be a stranger to it). Sounds great. I'll watch for the dates......

[the Royaliste]

Second or third weekend in May..gonna nail that down first, then figure the rest...Log entry.......And, should the Chieftain not be around, I'll make trips back and forth attacking the West Garrison on Angel Island..their guns are very mighty....

[Zephyr]

Thank ye.....it's on me book

[The WildHair'd Wench]

I'm a late faire monger and went my first time in 1994, but from 1994-1996, I'm glad to have seen what it was really like because those were the first and last years I really had fun at big faire in Southern and in Northern. When there was a definite spirit there and you saw some outstanding art from the vendors and well worth the price they asked. However, I remember reading the article when this corporate git filled with much shameless greedy drool, you're almost tempted to throw him a kerchief. I think the year was 1996 when many of the vendors who had been there for years left replaced by a bunch of medeival looking souvenir shops. Public intoxication was down, the goon squad operated like a bunch of nazis, and a friend who worked the faire was charged with sexual harassment - Wot?!!!!! I as a female went to the faire to get sexually harassed!!! I guess it was her first time at faire. Northern Faire seemed to be a bit better than Southern Faire for a while, but I think the last time I went was 1997 and didn't go for few years and popped by Southern in 2001 and it was dead. I've seen more life at a Puritan Revival.

I 've been going to the smaller faires, much better. I won't be sorry to see them go. I have great memories, but I would rather spend my coin supporting people who understand the real meaning of faire.

Chaeya

[Zephyr]

Public intoxication was down, the goon squad operated like a bunch of nazis, and a friend who worked the faire was charged with sexual harassment - Wot?!!!!! I as a female went to the faire to get sexually harassed!!! I guess it was her first time at faire. Funny

Funny I recall a rather well endowed friend (me thin as a reed then) being angry as a faireman called for the sheriff, "this woman be a melon smuggler!". We heard about it for weeks, though I imagined it was self promotion, the dear certinly hadn't needed the push up bra.....

I looked at the site for the "Heart of the Forest". I may see that this year, it looks quite nice.

[Privateer Pete]

I still remember bein' drug up in a performance of the Seven Deadly Sins as an audience member to portray Sloth...it was lots a' fun for this pirate...

Still, All Good Things Must Come to an End, as me friend Q once said...perhaps something new can happen...

[Redd Oktober]

ARRRR!!! Fear ye not, ye NorCal salts! Me uncle, who be a long-time vendor at many a faire, has asked me ter pass this infermation on ter all of you! He, and a collective of like-minded lubbers, have formed a website ter help rebuild the Northern California RenFaire.

Visit

www.fromashestofaire.org

-ReddFrom Ashes To Faire