26/08/2024
We're back home, after having spend the weekend at the "Middeleeuwse Jaarmarkt" (Medieval Fair) in preHistorisch Dorp .
My goodness, it was amazing! There where so many lovely people, clients dropping by for fittings, conversation, laughs, snacks and games, loads of sunshine, and heavy after hours rain, which made for cozy evening gatherings under canopies here and there.
I don't think I have ever been as busy at an event before, not even pre-pandemic. And it was a good kind of busy! The sort where there's reenactment customers, both in and out of costume, eager to learn visitors, talkative kids, museum enthousiast and staff from other museums, and best of all: so many different knowledgeable people, experts craftspersons, (amateur-)historians and the like gathered in one place.
Thank you Springlevend Verleden for bringing ging us all together. I don't know how often I've directed people to the spinster ( .n.iron ) in the orchard behind our little house, the weavers in the big house in Market Square, the dyers ( Speerbijter ) in the tent next door, and so on for more in depth conversation and expertise then I could offer. And I know people have been send my way in the same manner.
We may all work independently, carving out our own little niche of historical knowledge, but this event just shows how truly cooperative this hobby and/or business is.
There's too many people to thank really, and I hope I thought to thank most in person, but I'd like to just also mention Time Travel Experiments , , Bataille , , , , Baroen, Rudy Zijlstra for the picture of me sitting down for just a second, and Lachlan Macpherson for my amazing new furniture. Thank you for having been part of this weekend, and please let's do it again soon 😉.
