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By JOHNNIE HENDON
Two cockney wenches in low-
necked dresses with ragged hems
tease passing men about their love
lives.
Stately lords and ladies in richly
colored velvets and satins bid new
comers welcome in refined French
and English accents.
Scottish bagpipes provide a lively
background for jugglers and dancers
while the king’s fool performs hand
stands, Hips and somersaults for the
crowd’s amusement.
tury alive by presenting games,
drama, music, people and food
without the distractions of modem
life.
“There is no electriciy, no sound
system,’ said Al Casas, public rela
tions man. “People have to get close
to the performers to see and hear
them.”
This increases the feeling of par
ticipation that makes this festival dif
ferent than most fairs in the state,
he said.
The theme of the 3rd annual
Texas Renaissance Festival is “lift
your cares” and both
up
entertainers and exhibitors help to
keep this mood alive.
The festival has many permanent
structures, such as gates (complete
with turrets), a race track, and a lake
on its 250 acres.
o’clock Saturday morning.
Many of the artisans travel on a
circuit of renaissance festivals, start
ing in California, and going to Min
nesota, Illinois and Texas.
Exhibitors dress in 16th century
costumes, selling such items as pot-
teiy, leather goods, silver jewelry,
wood carvings, rattlesnake skins and
staffs.
What is a staff good for? “Knock
ing trolls off bridges, of course,” said
Dennis Borowicz, staff-maker.
The festival is held every
weekend in October and the first
weekend in November. It is located
about 50 miles southeast of Bryan-
College Station near Magnolia,
Texas.
The festival brings the 16th cen-
Exhibitors rent spaces for six
weeks, and build their own booths.
Most are elaborate with thatched
roofs, stained glass windows and
fanciful hand-painted and hand-
carved signs.
One exhibitor said he arrived
from Minnesota Tuesday night and
worked on his display booth until 3
The craftsmen said they like these
festivals because of the atmosphere,
fellowship and money.
“It’s the last hippie convention
left in the state,” commented one
woman.
Along the straw-covered road
leading through the village and
among the shops, actors, musicians
and dancers entertain.
Street actors perform Shakes
peare, traveling musicians play their
guitars and harps and sing to
people, and jugglers try to juggle
almost anything people will hand
them.
Two members of the Aggie
Players, Kayce Glasse and Chuck
McDaniel and a former Aggie
Player Tara Whitacre, can be seen
at the Enchanted Forest children’s
theater.
Students from Sam Houston Uni
versity, the High School for the Per
forming and Visual Arts and several
musical and acting groups from
Houston perform at three other
theaters.
Lords and ladies also participate
in knightly games, such as “Lance
and Rings,’ and the “Running at the
Quintain.”
In the Quintain game, a mounted
knight gallops at a wooden figure
which he must hit squarely with his
lance. This sport replaced jousting
because too many good knights
killed each other needlessly.
There are also horse races, chariot
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races and other game events.
Men in leotards, leather tunics
and capes try to entice passers-by to
play various games of skill arid dar-
ing.
“You, lady, how would you like to
beat your husband with this deadly
weapon?” yells the man behind the
“Fight the Knight” banner.
The “deadly weapon is a large
pillow used to knock an opponent off
a log.
The street players try their skill at
the games, trying to get the spec
tators to participate. One gallant
knight, standing in front of the
Greek game Jacob’s Ladder, called
into the audience, “I’ll go only if
that macho-looking fellow with his
shirt open will follow me.
Some get to participate in a more
direct way — being thrown in the
stocks by the festival guards. A kiss
from a virgin is one way to pay for
freedom from the stocks.
Food, exotic to 2()th century
tastes, adds to the atmosphere. But
among the Falafel and Beezel
Sandwiches, a sign proclaims “Sir
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John Michail, a strolling minstrel,
described the mood of the festival
with one of his songs, “They only
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Strolling minstrels, such as Lady Sharon Steenbergen, were
part of the 16th century atmosphere at the 3rd Annual Texas
Renaissance Festival near Magnolia.
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