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Indoctrinating kids with chivalry
Jeffrey Boyd Garrison:
--- Quote from: ECOX on 2012-02-25, 05:10:42 ---Sir Garrison, That is a awesome picture. I was in my late thirties before ever going to a faire and just started dressing for them a few years ago. We have introduced our adult kids to faires with some success. Our three year old grandchild was over and "Mike the Knight" came on. She called out Huzzah without prompt. I smiled with pride.
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There are so many things a three year old child might suprise everyone by shouting; "huzzah" must be by far the absolute best!
Jeffrey Boyd Garrison:
--- Quote from: Sir Edward on 2012-02-25, 03:49:03 ---
Wow, that's actually pretty awesome. :)
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Thankyou Sir Edward!
SirNathanQ:
Here's the Page Nathan picture...
Sir Edward:
I don't have childhood pictures, since I didn't really do this stuff when I was that young, though the interest was starting to take root. I started playing D&D and fantasy games and the like around the age of 10, and by 13 I had my first "sword" ($20 SLO from an antique shop). It wasn't until high school that I started getting more and better swords, and by then was diving into the role-playing and table-top gaming scene a lot more.
And then Sir Wolf managed to get me hooked on buying armor back in 99. :)
I was about 15 in this picture (1988) below. I'm on the left in the black Halloween costume, with that first sword I bought. I had made a vampire costume for Halloween the previous year and wore the fabric parts to the renfaire. This was outside the front gate at MDRF.
Sir James A:
I'll have to dig around at my parents to see if I have any lingering childhood pics. Dad loves cameras, but film was expensive when I was young too. I don't remember my first foray into the medieval except from the story my dad likes to tell. He's a volunteer firefighter, and when I was 3 or 4, he was watching me and he had to respond to a call; so he called another volunteer up the street, who brought his younger brother (12? 14?) down to babysit me so they could go to the fire. Dad had an Atari. So the babysitter got wrapped up in that, while I apparently took the couch cushions to build a castle. Castles need cement, right? I somehow got my hands on baby powder, and had dumped the whole bottle on the cushions to hold my "castle" together. Then dad got back, said something (probably "colorful"), and *then* the babysitter realized what I did. :D
Myself and a friend used to do the wooden sword battles too, and got our start with "armor" out of some discarded carpet and duct tape. That, however, was short-lived. We started on "ninja missions", dressing in all black, and sneaking around our yards at night. Soon, my dad would take me to the MD Renn Fest, where I bought my first legitimate steel sword (blunted for stage combat). And so it truly began - a couple years later, I'd get my first "real" start of armor; 16 gauge mild steel. It was full arms, pauldrons, full legs, and a cuirass, by a company long since out of business. I later lost the cuirass to damage in a small flood in my parents basement (failed sump pump), but the arms and legs were saved after a decent amount of rust removal.
That's awesome that you had heraldry as a kid. I never had anything like that, but I'm the only one in my family with any medieval interests. If I'm lucky enough to have kids, they will go straight from birth to their first mail haubergeon. :D Okay, not really, but I will highly encourage them to take interest in chivalry and the medieval period.
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