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The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major “family friendly” leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reve...
It took visiting a nursing home in 2008 that specialized in caring for victims of Alzheimer's disease to scare George Coulam. This experience became the fire that drove him to become his own cure. After three years of research into cutting edge medical science, Coulam created his own holistic regimen, including diet, exercise, and mental training, that staved off the disease and reversed the diagnosis. George Coulam is now Alzheimer's-free. Now Coulam outlines in detail what steps he took to beat the disease and how he continues to live his life fully. Complete with examples of worksheets and exercises, he leads us step-by-step in overcoming one of the most frightening diseases of the modern era. The treatment for Alzheimer's is closer than you think. It's you.
This ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs focuses on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking, and meticulously faithful historical reconstructions. It is also partly an autobiographical account of interactive improvisation, subcultures within the festival framework, the delineation between living history and historical elaboration, and a new understanding of performers and patrons.
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
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