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Article: Renaissance Faire certainly has character(s)
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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IT IS RELATIVELY mild for a Saturday in September in Hollister,
and that's a good thing considering what people wear at the Northern
California Renaissance Faire being held here.
Queen's guards don colorful, and weighty, leather pants as they
patrol the dusty, shaded grounds. Knights wear real shining armor,
the sun glinting off the heavy metal. And jesters pile on layers of
velvet and top themselves with those silly and heavy hats with bells
on the pointed ends.
One of those jesters, Dave Gregory, relaxes with water in hand
after his husband-wife performance on a small stage inside the fair
grounds. Gregory, a Berkeley native, is in his 40s and has been
attending the Renaissance Faire ...