Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD

Subject: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 30 Oct 11 - 08:25 PM

Almost time for the grand event - the most accurate guy fawkes bonfire in the USA and the only USA bonfire society now about the 30th one!
November 5, 2011, FREE all welcome....beer, dinner, parkin, bonfire toffee, effigies, bonfire fireworks.....torchlit procession. Loads of music and even a flaming christmas pudding....RSVP essential

Information here
or to rsvp [e-mail]
rain or shine

contest for best effigies prizes....

bring snack, sweet, salad whatever....children most welcome
must be supervised, small children ok- kiddie room....

http://fifthofnovember.blogspot.com/

Conrad

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 08:10 AM

And don't miss the authentic Boston Tea Party in London. Nothing like being authentic.

Hoot

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: Anne Lister
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 05:05 PM

I hate to be pedantic, but in what way is a flaming Christmas pudding an authentic element of Guy Fawkes Night? And no one in their right mind would bring a salad to a bonfire party in the UK!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: Reinhard
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 05:26 PM

They are Merkins, Anne, and for them "authentic" is just a posh word for "old". They are such a young nation that they won't recognise history if it bit them in the arse. Just look at their "Renaissance" fairs where authentic costumes are anything from Fred Flintstone to elves.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: Anne Lister
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 06:19 PM

Oh, I've been to Renaissance Fairs ... but they don't label themselves "authentic"! I've also been to a "Celtic Fayre" in California and have many a merry tale to tell as a result ... but again, there wasn't any claim to authenticity.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 08:15 PM

St Peter's School near us has a bonfire every year, but never burns Guy Fawkes, because it is bad form to burn Old Boys, even only in effigy!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: TheSnail
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 09:35 PM

Round our way, we do it like this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B03PdIjJsZg

and in this one, Mudcatter Valmai Goodyear is visible at about 1.30 if you know how to spot her -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrJztVF3kaM&feature=related

Authentic? Dunno.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: Surreysinger
Date: 31 Oct 11 - 09:42 PM

Nope, definitely agree with Anne on that one. Baked potatoes maybe, toffee apples, but flaming Christmas pudding??? As authentic as the suggested Boston Tea Party in London!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Authentic Guy Fawkes Celebration Balt.MD
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Nov 11 - 04:04 AM

Hey    give ol' Conrad a break! After all, this is being held at the Center for Fawkesian Pursuits where they actually pour the pudd into the Bonfire!   Later they throw in spuds and two garden gnomes then eat the ashes for breakfast...............


Spaw