These days, similar festivals (Renaissance, medieval, fairy, pirate) number in the hundreds across the country, including the two in Humboldt.
Renaissance and medieval fairs and festivals have been around since 1963, when the first Renaissance Pleasure Fair in the Hollywood Hills raised cash for a local NPR station. Hard on its heels a week later comes the Medieval Festival of Courage in Blue Lake, which is a fundraiser for Coastal Grove Charter School, as well as several other area schools and nonprofits.īoth are part of a 50-year-old movement that takes European history, throws on some tights and turns it into a party. Unlike larger Renaissance fairs, it's run by volunteers, people who just love doing things the really old fashioned way. Bernard's School, Mad River Adult Day Health Care and Redwood Horse Rescue. The Excalibur Medieval Tournament and Market Faire on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. Peasants and tradespeople will all be on hand to party like it's 999. Men and women will clash with swords and sticks, and jousters will, well, joust.
But in a few days, it'll be filled with tents and a tavern, populated by knights, knaves and a village of Vikings.
The field beside Mad River Community Hospital is empty, with only a painted sign for the Dark Horse Tavern on the stable.
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