The event's called Pirates in Paradise, and will be right next to an old fort in Key West. It's not an official event for the area, so regular folk don't come in droves to see it, but more do hear about it each year and venture down to see it in action. Some of the pirates stay in hotels, but others prefer to rough it and be as authentic as possible in crewe encampments. I'll be in the camp with the Mercury crewe, and was offered a room in a tent by a very nice family (woohoo! no hotel bill). I'm picking up knicknacks here and there that fit the time period my crewe is supposed to embody (1720). There will be all sorts of things to watch, go to and participate in (singing, comedy skits, battles, canon firing, ships, pub "brawl", pirate trials). I'll only be there for a few days...the event lasts a week or so I think.Sinkwriter72 wrote:What will your reenactment be like? Is it at a festival of some sort, or ...? I've previously worked at a Renaissance Faire (for two summers in a madrigal singing group) so we of course had to wear proper period attire for that, but I've never dressed as a pirate. My friend Sonnett and I wanted to create a singing group of our own where we dressed as kick-ass female pirates and sang bawdy songs. *GRIN* If only we'd kept working at the faire, maybe our idea would have come to fruition. How fun.