Wisconsin Fayre - An Invitation!, Lloyd's Last Joust

Come Joust For the Fun of It!

Hear ye, Hear ye, the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Roundtable are coming to Beaver Dam?s Dodge County Fairgrounds on October 1st and 2nd to attend the Second Annual CAMELOT MEDIEVAL HARVEST FAIRE.

Beginning at 10 am and running through 6 pm each day, visitors to the faire will be treated to music, dance, food, fun, an actual Highland Games competition, and a Real, Full Impact Jousting ?Tournament?, provided by the world renowned jousting troupe, The King?s Champions.

The joust will pit Wisconsin?s own 2000 World Jousting Champion, Lloyd Clark, jousting for the final time in his 24-year career, against Four Time Women?s World Champion, Cassandra Adams of the Netherlands.

The faire will be fully family-friendly and will provide plenty of medieval merriment, living history, and fun for the whole family.

The Camelot Medieval Harvest Faire will be the third major fundraiser for the Historic Camelot Project. The Historic Camelot Project is a non-profit educational organization that is seeking to build a recreation of a ?medieval? village as a living history museum in Dodge County. The ?Village?, as project members call it, will allow many thousands of Wisconsin school children and adults, to experience the daily life of Britons from the early 5th Century to the 14th. The children, and adults as well, will learn about how our ancestors lived firsthand, in order to foster a greater appreciation and love of history. The Village will be the only one of its kind in the Midwest and will offer both education and entertainment to visitors.

Ticket prices are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for children 5 ? 12, under 5 are free. There is a fee of $2 per car for parking.

For further information, please contact Lisa Clark at 920-219-1260 or visit www.historiccamelot.org.

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We will be having a wide variety of period entertainment, including:

Sahaja Dance Company
Seelie Court
Michigan Highland Dancers
The Kings Champions Joust Troupe
A Competitive Highland Games Competition
Bristol's Guild of St. Michael - this time as 5th Century Anglo-Saxons
Thistlecroft Celtic Living History
The Modern Medievalist Society
The Tribe of the Blue Rose (combat oriented Arthuro/Celtic Living
History)
Companyie of the Northerne Sterre (wide timeframe living history)
Mummers
Lutists, Harpists, and More!


Nearly 40 vendors (many of whom do not show in the Midwest)
including: Albion Armouries!!


There will be REAL JOUSTING, REAL SWORDPLAY, REAL BIG MEN IN KILTS
THROWING HEAVY OBJECTS, lots of Highland Dancing, lots of celtic
music, lots of living history, and TWO DAYS OF MEDIEVAL (well,
actually DARK AGES) MAYHEM!

Help to support our worthy cause and end the 2005 Faire Season in
Grand, Celtic Style!!

All to support our nonprofit - The Historic Camelot Project -
www.historiccamelot.org

Event Location: Corner of Fabisch Road and Hwy 33 in Beaver Dam
Event TIME Details: 10 am to 6 pm each day.

Directions: From Madison - take Hwy 151 North to Dodge Cty Hwy 33 and
go eastt to Fabisch Road.From Milwaukee - Take Hwy 41 North to Hwy 33
West. Take Hwy 33 West to the Dodge County Fairgrounds. From Fox
Cities - Take Hwy 41 South to Hwy 26 South. Take Hwy 26 South to Hwy
151 South. Take Hwy 151 to County Hwy 33 East. .

Phone: (920) 219-1260

Website: http://www.historiccamelot.org
Website II:
http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/historiccamel.../Harvest05.html

sir lloyd....

your ending your career jousting a woman? please please stay on your horse...
men everywhere are depending on ya.......

and whats this no "Grey Aengus" on the bill? i hear he was pretty popular at your spring fayre... ... i really wish i could have played this one....


goodspeed to ya den.... have a great highly profitable fayre...
and dont forget stay on the horse........ *chuckle*

my best regards to your lovely wife lisa.

dundee aka grey aengus

Lloyd this sounds like terrific fun, I wish I could come to it! But alas I am not able to but hope to see pictures of your faire!! So you are ending your career? Twenty-four years is a long time! Congrats to you!! But think I must agree with dundee...do please stay on the horse...but at the same time...don't hurt the other champ - Cassandra! Best wishes to all and hope you have a wonderful time!!

Hi All,

Thanks for the well wishes. Things went well and here are some links to pics:

http://www.rensites.com/gallery/Camelot-Me...vest-Fayre-2005

http://www.sirclisto.com/51main.html

I will post more pics and more info when I get a chance!

Sir Lloyd, very nice pictures. The pictures of the horses were beautiful. They are such magnificent animals. Thanks for sharing with us. I hope your enjoying your stay here at CR.

Soooooo...who stayed on and who fell off?

maggiemahone1

Sir Lloyd...thank you for sharing your pics...it is so green and lovely there! It looks like it was a wonderful time...So, tell us...how did your retirement go then? Was it a draw? Or a tie? Not sure what it is called in jousting! I am going to share the pics with my son and daughter, they will think it is wonderful! Thanks again!!

Actually, the very last joust was a draw - 3 lances apiece. Unfortunately, after the third pass (of six), my stirrup broke and could not be fixed. Not exactly what I had planned for my final joust!

I then dismounted and surprised two of my squires by knighting them on the field and presenting them with swords.

Then I was surprised as I was presented with a brand new sword, the Steward, from Albion Swords Steward as a gift for my 24 years of jousting.

It was a very moving day for me (extremely bittersweet) as I thought back over the years and the literally millions of people that I have jousted in front of. I remember all of the great times and am quickly forgetting the bad (as it should be).