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Ren Faire History: From Folk Music to Fried Food

Footnoting History by Footnoting History

Oct 11, 202516:43Society & Culture

(Host: Lucy) Giant turkey legs, fried food, implausible costumes… and counterculture? This episode explores the roots of Renaissance Faires in the US, and how this originally hippie-centric phenomenon was linked to other...

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Ren Faire History: From Folk Music to Fried Food is an episode from Footnoting History by Footnoting History. (Host: Lucy) Giant turkey legs, fried food, implausible costumes… and counterculture? This episode explores the roots of Renaissan...

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