Scarborough
Faire
2000
It's the
20th
Anniversary
of Scarborough Faire!
A lot has changed at Scarborough in 20 years; in fact,
a lot has changed since last year!
The Mud Pit has been
moved to the far end of Holly Field and there is a new stage at the
Dirty Duck Tavern
right next door.
There is a new Armory Museum
and the barnyard petting zoo has been relocated ... but the chickens
still have to watch out for the jousters!
There are more picnic tables, more shaded seating, and more
Flushies!
Those handsome rogues
Hack and Slash
(that's Slash on the left and Hack on the right)
have finally made it to Texas.
And there is a new comedy juggling act,
Throw Up
(well, new to Scarborough ... they can also be seen at
that other Renaissance festival outside of Houston
).
Gibbon the Troubadour
is back after several years away.
And there is at least one guest performer every week.
There are some new merchants and guest merchants:
Laughing Frog (lampwork jewelry),
Ophelia (clothing),
and Old Woman Soap
are just a few of them.
And all of my favorites are back as well, including
Lady McArthur's Fiery Fare
and
Highland Anvil.
I feel incomplete this year since I didn't make closing day. I didn't get to wear my bell-bottom tights to Faire! Why didn't I make closing day? Well, it rained all day Saturday (not on site, but everywhere else) and it rained all Saturday night. The weather didn't look too bad Sunday morning when I left home. But then I got stuck, in heavy rain, on I-35E south of downtown Dallas, behind an accident that looked like it shut down the interstate entirely. I sat in the rain for an hour going nowhere. When I finally got to an exit, I looked back and saw nothing but headlights stretching back into the rain all the way to downtown. I looked the other way and saw taillights stretching south. Then I looked to my right and saw rising water. I said a naughty word (or two or three ...) and started driving. As I'm driving along on what used to be the shoulder of the road, in heavy rain, through a constuction zone where I have a concrete barrier to my left, and a steep drop-off to the right down to the surging water, listening to the weather report on the radio talk about flash floods in Dallas, Tarrent, Ellis and Parker counties, I decided to just go home and sit it out. It rained until I got within 2 miles of home. So I turned on the Weather Channel, and the weather radar showed an isolated pocket of no-rain right over Plano (where I live in Far, Far North Dallas almost Oklahoma) and rain, rain, rain everywhere else. Heavy rain. With thunderboomers. I thought about the parking lot. I thought about how much mud there was on Saturday. And I wimped out.
But, although I didn't get in that last minute shopping, and I missed the closing day bell-bottom tights extravaganza, I did get lots and lots of pictures from all the other days I went to Faire. And I found out 2 things about my new camera. Motor drives are fun! You can catch a lot of action that normally would be missed. Motor drives are also expensive! I shot 40 rolls of film at Scarborough this year!
