PHOTO CONTEST: share your vision of the faire to win an autographed copy of Well Met: Renaissances Faires and the American Counterculture by Rachel Rubin, out this week from New York University Press! To enter, send a copy of a photograph you took at the faire to fairehistory@gmail.com. Include your name and which faire is pictured. Deadline is December 7, 2012. I will then contact two winners, and post the winning photographs here.