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Forward Into the Past at Caponi Art Park
Caponi Art Park hosted its annual Medieval Fair Sunday, complete with bold battling knights, fair damsels, bards, jugglers, cooks, artisans and lot of fans.
Close to 1,000 visitors went forward into the past Sunday afternoon at the annual Medieval Fair at Caponi Art Park in Eagan.
Put on by the Society of Creative Anachronism's Barony of Nordskogen, the event featured dozens of reactors in a Medieval Village who gave educational demonstrations in everything from sword fighting to glass blowing.
Visitors could watch mock combat, fire a crossbow at targets or launch missiles via a catapult. There were rapier and armored combat bouts, medieval music, weaponry and armorers, storytellers, jugglers, cooking, period games, heraldry, glass bead making and other arts and skills.
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Families could watch lace making demonstration, spinning, fire starting, examine crossbows, see a book display or participate in children's coloring activity.
Caponi Art Park is also sponsoring a 2011 photo contest of the art park and exhibition and a Halloween at the Art Park event Oct. 29. Information on both is available at www.caponiartpark.org.
