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jehanni

Pirate Feast at Adelphi Mill

Feb 16, 2009 00:26

This year's Pirate Feast was also Valentine's Day. Unfortunately, my love was not able to accompany me to the festivities, but he saw me off with style and kisses.

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viennabelle February 16 2009, 14:39:40 UTC

The powdermonkeys, I hate to say, take the prize. They are just way too cute! I wished I could have been there and at Gadsby's Tavern, too!

kittenmint February 16 2009, 16:59:22 UTC

Super cute pics! =o) sounds like you had a great time! And I agree about the powder monkeys ^_^

chloeandrudy February 16 2009, 22:58:39 UTC

You guys have so much fun on the left coast. This sounds like a blast.

jehanni February 17 2009, 00:07:41 UTC

Isn't it funny looking across coasts and around the world, and wishing you could be--over there?! I see your Dickens fair things and Steampunk--your recent fashion show and tea, and think you guys have such fun! Here's to events multiplying in all lands.

Expand the costume universe--create an event near you.

chloeandrudy February 17 2009, 03:13:06 UTC

Yep, I'm waiting for the transporters to be in operation so I can go back and forth to all these events. :D
I think the biggest difference btn our two coasts is it seems your costume eras are more focused on certain years, where, out here, we're all over the place. But not much in the way of Colonial here tho. I don't have any place to wear my mid 1700s, so it's going to CoCo and Willieburg.

jehanni February 17 2009, 22:33:32 UTC

Certainly there is a large concentration here on events that actually happened locally: and I can understand when we have Poe's grave and Washington's house and the battlefield where Picket charged and the inlet where Pocahantas grew up all in easy "gallivantin" distance that you'd want to take advantage.

I grew up in what was in Revolutionary times North Concord (Massachusetts, that is), and I remember marching the Estabrook trail every year with the modern Town of Carlisle Minutemen to the Old North Bridge for the Patriot's Day parade. Parking in Carlisle Center is much easier than in Concord, and it's a lovely walk through woods and past stone walls and a few fields you can still squint and see as pastures.

But of course, I'm perfectly willing to imagine appropriate settings, and transform Maryland woods into English ones for the Ren Fest (as I recall, England has no poison ivy), or a Manassas tea room into Yorkshire for an afternoon. I think the key to doing events is finding a critical mass of like costumes. :-)