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As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots?

  • Written by Katrina Stack, Ph.D. Candidate in Human Geography, University of Tennessee
imageKing Richard's Faire in Carver, Mass., was inaugurated in 1982 and is the longest-running renaissance fair in New England.Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Within moments of entering the Newport Renaissance Faire, you are ushered to a group of fairies. They pass you a scroll and say, “You must seek out the Bone Man for the first...

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