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