RUB ELBOWS WITH ROYALTY AND CHEER DUELING SWORDFIGHTERS


     Searching for a place where the whole family can mingle with royalty and cheer dueling swordfighters and enjoy entertainment fit for a king? If so, you won't want to miss the Cain's Crossing Renaissance Faire. "Take a day off to another time….."
    May 9th and 10th, 2009 we will be celebrating another year of Auburn's very own Renaissance Faire. Designed as a replica of a merry olde English town in the year 1592, the townsfolk of Cain's Crossing are jubilant upon the arrival of Queen Elizabeth on her progress through the area. Beautiful Cain's Crossing is set along a trade-route where peoples from countries near and far gather to offer food and drink and wares to the visitors who come to enjoy the merriment of this festive occasion.
      For the price of admission, you are encouraged to immerse yourself in the stark simplicity of the times; dressing of the period, speaking the olde English, and lending your good cheer to the pageantry. Hark, be bold!
     Take on the guise of a Renaissance figure - Be it a Lord or a merchant, a peasant or a farmer or a court jester. Then stroll through the spectacle of the marketplace in your new personae and delight in the surge of strange sights and tantalizing smells.
      Make way for the royal procession, lest you lose your head to the Queen's Royal Guards. Barter with a merchant for fyne crafted wares. Indulge your appetite with succulent meats, vegetables and fruits washed down by hardy ale or dark exotic coffee.
     Leer at the buxom maidens going about their business. Be enthralled by the bellydancers of the Ottoman Empire. Blush at the implications of a silver tongued scoundrel as you walk past. Cheer on a dashing swordfighter from the Diamond Rose Academie dueling for his honor. Rejoice in the ribald street performers and entertainers. Be amazed at the magician who seems to make objects appear out of the very air. Eavesdrop on the gossip mongering ladies-in-waiting at the House of Swindon.
     For the price of admission you have bought excitement and escape. Use it well. And when exhausted from your revelry, use this renaissance faire to find some fine handmade wares that you have always desired.
     All of this takes place in the large, oak studded meadow of the Auburn Regional Park where Cain's Crossing will transport visitors to an English style country fair with an agreeable array of colorful characters, entertainers, rogues, royalty and craftspeople all roaming throughout the village. The town will be bustling with activity to ensure a good time with a great variety of amusement, food for feasting, swordsmen fighting for the prize, a bevy of bellydancers and a children's glen for the little ones.
     Cain's Crossing Renaissance Faire will benefit the Auburn Education Foundation. This event is co-sponsored by the Auburn Recreation District and the Auburn Education Foundation. Proceeds from this wondrous affair will go directly to the students of Auburn.


 
Much thanks and a huge Huzzah! goes to the all-volunteer Cain's Crossing Renaissance Faire board members. Without their long hours of work, we would not have a faire for the kids and for the community.