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Greetings from the Southern California Pleasure Faire

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Sir Robert:
Well LIKE is that it looks like it on a much smaller scall like a hill is like a mountain. It's nothing like it in practice as its all staged and is for entertainment for historical flavor and reference.

The think I like is that they have it at all, many Faires are moving farther away from actaul historical references and becomming strictly fantasy. Maybe thats good, maybe its not, but I think loosing the context makes the fair no more than an amusement and that was not the real intent.

Faires can be a valuable historical tool, to submerge visitors in living history but also with the ability to interact is extreamly valuable (I think). I think of Plimoth Plantation is an excellent example of it, in most Faires I find myself just waiting for the glowsticks to come out (like a circus).

Of course Guilds provide the historical context and bring the time period to life, even introducing things like bookmaking, candel making, cooking, herbology, and daily life to visitors. In California the Guilds are slowly being moved out of the Faires in preference for "Disney". Making money is a nessecity of our Faires, but giving the Faires meaning is equally importaint, and yet its being removed.

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