Are you up for two days of piracy !]

The Renaissance Festival is a 16th century European style art and entertainment festival combining outdoor theater, circus entertainment, arts and crafts marketplace, a jousting tournament, a feast fit for royalty, and much much more. The 16th annual season opens this fall for seven festive weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, from October 10th to November 22nd.

The Carolina Renaissance Festival was introduced in 1994 with six acres of exhibits, attractions and entertainment. The event has grown into a twenty acre theme park filled with charming cottages and castles, kitchens and pubs, and a most unusual collection of people powered rides and games of skill.

The Carolina event has grown to be one of the largest of the Renaissance fairs nationwide. Tree lined lanes are filled with over 100 purveyors of crafts and food, and non-stop music and comedy shows are presented on 10 stages every event day.

This is one of the most interactive entertainment shows ever created with wonderful amusements and antics ongoing all around you! You can sit back and watch, or you can become a part of the action, surrounded by over 500 costumed characters roaming the festival village. The village lanes are full of peasants singing sea-faring songs and street entertainers surprising you with tall tales and tricks, each with a role to play.

You can experience the clashing of armor and the thundering of hooves daily with full combat jousts at the King's Tournament Arena.

As its a 4hr drive getting a hotel would be advisable and pack some warm Garb as it can get cold.

Tavern keeper Paul at the Pirate's Pub Atlanta has offered us refuge on Halloween night, Giving us a chance to Show off our Garb and earn a doubloon er two. He has devised a contest and will award a house credit of
$40.00 to each winner of three categories. First of course for the landlubbers and wharf rats is Best General Halloween costume non Piratical of course. Then one each for best Pirate and best wench! Need I remind you Captains to wear your best coats and wipe the blood off your boots? And you lady's tighten that corset another notch and make those assets appear ready to pop! The Contest will be held at 10 PM plenty of time to hand out the candy and secure your ship to the dock.
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A bonus to boot: a shot of Rum fer all our members and their guest! Not any old foul smelling cask tasting spirit, But Pirates Choice Key Lime or Molasses Reef chilled in the freezer like last time! See ye old Quartermaster fer a ticket (after 9PM).
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If that's not enough to drag out amongst the ghouls and wailing ghost Paul will add a bonus to any gift card purchased, again this is just fer members of A P & W so same rules apply as last time. Paul has asked ye to reload your existing cards as it does cost him a few pence for the plastic.

YES! I know the kiddies have the candy plundering thing but any of ye who don't have plans or want to stop in earlier fer dinner or later come see the old Quartermaster fer a shot of rum ( I will not arrive until 9PM ).

MeAssBeDragon will be set up again in front and depending on the work party on October 3rd may have some new weaponry attached. Come and join in the group Picture and this time somebody suggest while the camera operator is still sober enough to take the picture!

Make your mark if ya dropping anchor and mark it no if yer sailing on past.

Respectfully,
Quartermaster Ferguss Hardwood

Ahoy!! The National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, in Columbus GA will be holding its 6th Annual Pirates of the Chattahoochee. It is October 24, 2009, from 12-4pm it is open to the public.

What's the cost? For Pirates in Pirate Attire Pay no admission Fee. For the Pirates that help with the activity stations your reward is a free lunch.
There is Camping available, there will be a Period Section, a modern section, and the have some RV hook up, the charge for Camping? FREE.
They also happen to have the Largest Civil War Cannon to still be fired, and Yes, they want us, yes Us to help them fire it!
And if that aint enough they have a ship that needs to be captured, the CSS Water Witch.
After the public leaves it will be just a kicked back and relaxed gathering of the Brethren, so if ye be able I pray ye to attend.
If you need any other information Please feel free to contact me and I will give you an answer, and if you require the correct answer I will contact the Lady in Charge of the Event.

Capt. Jack Shite

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Volunteer Information
October 24, 2009
Volunteers needed from 12:00noon – 4:00p.m.
Event Description
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Pirates of the Chattahoochee Family Day!
October 24, 2009
12:00noon – 4:00p.m.
Join us for a day of family pirate fun and adventure! Boat rides, kid’s art activities and games, pirate tattoos, face painting, real cannon ball toss competition, music, jewelry making, treasure hunting and more!
Please check out the message board for more deatils

After a night of Frolic and merriment in the northern port of Cartersville.................................The next morning we need your help.

The stormy seas and foul weather have taken a toll on our ship. A rouge way knocked the top rail clear off the Larboard side, a dead eye tore loose during a Gail, and her rudder looks like a udder! Poor old Jacques lost his head during the mast lowering ceremony at the James Joyce and the ship needs a lot of TLC to be seaworthy for the next event. We have a lot of appearances coming up and Sadly we will not be able to use the float in the little 5 parade due to lack of secure parking for her after the parade. This is the only open weekend available before a surprise appearance (still in development) and she needs not only sprucing up a bit, but during static displays we could have a taller mast! Maybe we can have a true main sail during these displays if the riggers can sort out the details. So gather round crew and set course for the secret location. We have plenty to do for the ones of you who didn't have a chance to get your hands dirty last time. Skilled or just clumsy, we welcome all pirates and wenches (NO KIDS PLEASE unless they can tote timbers or cook) From sweeping to sorting the materials we already have on hand.......... just too much for a tired old tar to manage and manhandle by me self. If ya don't do anything but lead us in a song, it will lift the spirits and make the load seems lighter! We may need some more rope so look around your hold, or steal from your neighbors garage or shed and see if you have some sisal or hemp rope just rotting away. boards, nails, screws, rats, parrots or FLAGS! The hand rail still sits in a pile , just waiting for A crew to size and fit. We need a place to install Belaying Pins and the handrail has to be installed first. Any materials you can bring, then bring them on or write me to swing by with a truck if too large fer yer skiff; we can store till needed. The future will bring a higher deck so the land luvers can see our sharp steel, fierce scowl and the lady's bounteous over flowing.....err pretty ruffles better. All of you know or should know by now we still have another 1/2 of a ship to build as soon as we commandeer a bigger or second trailer! I will try and have something for everyone to do and those of you with deep pockets............well you know what to do.

See you at the secret location.

Respectfully,

Quartermaster Ferguss Hardwood