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cast of characters and centuries old history descended on Pamlico Community College on Saturday for the school’s first Medieval and Renaissance Fair.

PCC student Bricen Brown in a role as herald, greeted spectators to the Delamar Center.

Members of regional chapters of the Society for Creative Anachronism gathered, in costume, to dance to music of that era, engage in swordfights and otherwise share with spectators their knowledge of the Middle Ages. (It’s said of SCA that they celebrate those centuries (10th-17th) “as they ought to have been.”) Most of them offered two names.. the ones they were born with and their SCA personas.

Margaret Fowler of New Bern and Simon Spalding in the foyer of the Delamar Center which served as the music – and dance – chamber for the day.

The Craven Consort provided music and the New Bern Players presented a number of selections from Shakespeare plays. The rainy weather pushed all the activities in side, but despite that, there is talk of presenting it again next year.

The event drew those who dressed up in the style of pirates from a few centuries ago.

Paige Walker adopted the persona of Grace O’Malley, an Irish pirate queen, who she said had a large fleet of ships in the 16th Century.

A small-scale model of a Trebuchet, a pre-gunpowder implelment of war. (Think large catapault.) Curtis Sliger (aka Lord Emrys Blackworth and Laura Garcia (aka Baroness Katharine de la Vache) are part of the Society for Anachronistic Creativity group in Jacksonville where they use an 18-foot tall trebuchet to hurl items.

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The Craven Consort played Renaissance chamber music.

Denise Meyerson of PCC steps to the outside circle with the other women as the men lean in and clap.

Women would get their turn…

The dances involved a lot of instructions of steps and circles. Ehren Rolle had her grandmother Marilyn Stern as her partner.

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Stringed instruments made by Christian Michaels were on display near the stage.

Scenes from Shakespeare, here, a Midsummer Night’s Dream.

.. and the play within the play in Midsummer Night’s Dream..

.. The End.

Will Wheeler and Trisha Gable of the New Bern Players, take a moment after their Shakespeare performances to try their hand at Nine Men’s Morris, a game that goes back to the Roman Empire.

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Covers stayed on the swords for the demonstration.

Sword fights were fought, at half speed.

Dylan Watercott of New Bern and Ehren Rolle of Oriental recreate the swordplay …

At the end of the day, Rodney Woods, a Havelock middle school teacher from Havelock.

Posted Tuesday October 22, 2013 by Melinda Penkava