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Boal Mansion Museum to Hold Boalsburg Renaissance Faire

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Centre County Gazette

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The Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum will host the Boalsburg Renaissance Faire on Sunday. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 163 Boal Estate Drive, Boalsburg.

The Boalsburg Renaissance Faire includes a wide range of arts and crafts vendors and demonstrations; sword-fighting, dueling, archery and axe-throwing demonstrations; a bounce house and petting zoos, including unicorns; carriage rides; live music and dance performances; crafts, games and wandering minstrels; and special museum tours of the Boal Mansion Armory and the Columbus Chapel.

An array of food trucks and food vendors round out this day-long celebration of the museum’s European heritage.

The entrance fee for this family-friendly day is $10 per person, with children 2 and under admitted for free.

New and returning participants in the Faire include:

Artisan VillageStage Performers Food Vendors
• Lew Logan -Wood working  and printing 
• Art Alliance Potters Guild
• Pa Doula and the Good Red Witch Herbs 
• Needle and Wet Felting
• Heart-Bound Books 
• Italian Street Painting 
• The Knotty Girls- Fiber Arts  
• Susan Nicholas Gephardt  and Randi Anderson- Plein  Aire Painting 
• Nittany Highland Pipe Band
• Happy Valley Golden Wheel Pagan Network 
• Graham Curtis – Scribe
• Tempest Studios- Crafts &  Games, Wandering Players  with sonnets, scenes etc.
• Unicorn Grove
Shaggy Mountain Farms  Petting Zoo 
• Axe-Throwing from  
Slingers Throw House 
• Lasting Memories Carriage  Rides
• Bruce Young – Celtic Fiddle and  Songs 
• Black Cat Belly Dancing 
• Tempest Theatre 
• Little German  
Band  
• Tir Na Nog -Celtic Dance Troupe
• SCA Fight/fencing demo – (across street from stage) 
• Central PA Dance Workshop – European Folk Dances 
• Simple Gifts World Music
• Brazilian Munchies  
• Rebelz Cuisine 
• Happy Dishes 
• Happy Valley Nutrition
• East End Coffee Co
• Goblin Alchemy Mead

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