Have you ever found yourself agitated or confounded or just sick of the current state of affairs

and wondered what it might be like to live in another time?

I do not belong to this time period. I know it sounds crazy, but when I wore armor and I'm sitting

in front of a castle in Germany or in Poland,

I felt like I belong there. You know, I feel at home.

For some people, home is in the Middle Ages.

It appears to be a simpler time. People worked hard and played hard.

It seems exotic to us now.

The exotic place these people are in is New Jersey at the Burlington County Fairgrounds.

It's a warm, sticky Sunday in June, and they are attending the annual New Jersey Renaissance Fair,

fair with an E at the end. Despite the heat, they're wearing

woolen vests and long-sleeved dresses, heavy boots. Also, among the men, a lot of very bushy

beards. Matt Schwartz is one of the musical performers. He is a harpist. I think nowadays

you look at a world that doesn't have a lot of our modern problems,

and you think it was perfect.

Of course, back then, they had their own problems,

but I think there's much to be said with a world in which you're in touch with the outdoors

of nature.

Jordan Cavalier is another musical performer.

This is called the Nickelharpa.

It's a Swedish key fiddle.

It's 16 strings of medial Swedish glory.

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