Oklahoma City Festival

There are three things that are certain to occur in Oklahoma during the spring. One being bad weather, the second is the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and the third being the start of festival and fair season. Oklahoma City has festivals to celebrate the arts, music, and foods that are unique to Oklahoma. The City of Guthrie devotes a whole weekend to the Land Run of 1889 with “89er Days Celebration” and in Bartlesville you will be transported back to Indian Territory of the 1820s during the “Spring Mountain Man Encampment”. There is even a fair solely dedicated to peaches in Stratford and the City of Norman will host its annual “Medieval Fair”. This is the 41st year the city will host the fair. It has grown to be the state’s largest
Students are immersed in the living history of the fair with additional educational activities planned that will entertain the students but will also educate them. Students from around the state attend the fair to study life in the Middle Ages. Actors portray King Edward III and Queen Philippa, in 1360, as they visit the town of Avalon for the first market of the spring. The actors began their performance by telling the students about how England just signed a treaty with France to end the Hundred Year War and how the black plague has been eradicated for its countryside. They continue by stating it is a time to celebrate victory and peace. The students are then entertained with live presentations and demonstrations from life in the Middle
My parents would take my sister and me to the fair each spring. One of first memories of the fair is being carried around of my father’s shoulders and wondering why everyone was dressed so funny. The last Medieval Fair that I attended with my family was my senior year in high school. I wasn’t too thrilled to visit the same old fair again but went anyways because I was told we would go to Red Robin afterwards. It was not until I had to write a paper on a visit to a culture event, did I really start to pay attention to all the unique characters, history, live performances, and demonstrations of medieval art that the fair had to