Ravenwood Faire

02/15/2025

*VENDOR LINK FOR AGE OF THE VIKING EVENT IS NOW LIVE!*


VENDOR LINK BELOW:
https://www.ravenwoodfoundation.org/vikingsapplications

02/15/2025

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎

Sage Edwards, Thetis Mathan, Deanna Rail, Diann Landau, Jacob Stottlemyer, Margaret Mitchell, Ted Baumhauer

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

02/10/2025

This is a special call out as we search for more Viking themed vendors, entertainers, demonstrators, and authors for our Viking centric event, Age of the Viking!
This is a one day event, 10:00am-6:00pm, at the Mountain Run Winery located in Culpeper, VA, on June 7th, 2025. We’re aiming to provide an exciting and educational experience for our patrons and would love to invite anyone who thinks they fit the image to apply! Please reach out to Jill - [email protected] or Stephanie - [email protected]!

02/10/2025

Who else is looking forward to the rolls at Texas Roadhouse? Remember to mention Ravenwood Foundation when you dine in OR take out on February 20th. When you do, a donation will be given to our foundation at no extra cost to you!

This is available ONLY at the Texas Roadhouse located at 113 Market Street, Wi******er, VA.

02/10/2025

Ravenwood Foundation

‼️‼️WE NEED YOUR HELP‼️‼️

🫵🏼 YOU, YES YOU, READING THIS POST🫵🏼

Did you know there’s a whole foundation behind Ravenwood Faire making incredible things happen year-round?

The Ravenwood Foundation is the heart and soul of Ravenwood Faire, working hard to bring history, entertainment, and community together—all while supporting great causes.

The foundations biggest fundraiser of the year is Ravenwood Faire.

‼️‼️HOW YOU CAN HELP‼️‼️

👍🏼LIKE THE FOUNDATION PAGE (ITS LINKED BELOW & TAGGED AT THE TOP OF THIS POST)
👍🏼FOLLOW THE FOUNDATION PAGE
👍🏼FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE MOST RECENT POST, POSTED BY THE FOUNDATION

By liking/following the foundation page, you’ll get insider updates, information on fundraising events, and ways to get involved!

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02/09/2025

Only 250 days until faire!

Photo Credit: Ole Jaxon Photography

02/08/2025

*Dine in or Take Out* on February 20th at the Texas Roadhouse at 113 Market Street, Wi******er and mention Ravenwood Foundation and a donation will be given to our Foundation! Thank you!!!!!!! Huzzah and Yeehaw!!!!!!!!! 👑

01/31/2025

To celebrate our upcoming event, Age of the Viking, we have a fun little Viking fact for you! Did you know that Vikings didn’t actually call themselves Vikings? While the exact origin of the word is uncertain, many theories believe it was derived from the Old Norse word ‘vikingr’, which usually meant pirate or raider. It was used between the 12th and 14th centuries and was likely derived from an even earlier Scandinavian word. So, instead of Viking, they would have instead used the term Norsemen.

While the terms Viking and Norse both refer to people from Scandinavia, Viking is actually a more specific term. The Norse were people who lived in Scandinavia from the late 8th to early 11th century, and Vikings were a group of norsemen who were more particularly warriors.

01/27/2025

We don’t just dress in medieval garb! We also enjoy pulling out the formal wear, especially for one of our new favorite events - the annual Burns Night Dinner at West Oaks Farm Market, presented by our friends at City of Wi******er Pipes and Drums, a fellow non-profit organization. Last night, a few members of our Ravenwood family dusted off their kilts and donned our favorite dresses to celebrate the legacy of Robert Burns, Scotland’s most cherished poet.

Thank you to our volunteer coordinator, Bobby Moncrief, for setting up this evening for us, and congratulations to his lovely wife, Cathy, for winning first place in the shortbread competition! We also want to shout out our members Dan and Terry Carter, as well as Bob Edlich, for winning in the silent auction, and a congratulations to all the other winners of the night. We hope everyone enjoys their goodies!

We would also like to give another round of applause to the City of Wi******er Pipes and Drums group for a wonderful performance and for a successful evening. We can’t wait to come back next year!

01/25/2025

We’re very much looking forward to releasing as much of our story as we can (without spoilers, of course 😉), so as we do, make sure you place your bets as to who YOU think will come out on top!

Huzzah!! 🏰👑

01/22/2025

Big shout out to our newest top fans! Huzzah!!👑💎

Sage Edwards, Thetis Mathan, Deanna Rail, Diann Landau, Jacob Stottlemyer, Margaret Mitchell, Ted Baumhauer

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

01/21/2025

Good eve, beloved populace! We hope you’re enjoying this splendidly chilly weather we’ve found ourselves stuck in.

This is a friendly reminder to please be sure to keep an eye out at your local events calendar for some upcoming Ravenwood fun! Come and meet your favorite kingdom dwellers as well as some new faces who have joined us. Also stay tuned for more story line updates and teasers. As our Queen seeks out a new husband, place your bets as to who she will chose… if any 😉

01/17/2025

Piggy banks. Everyone has owned them. From the classic soft pink, to white, even transitioning from pigs to other animals, it’s almost impossible to have never heard of a piggy bank. But, have you ever looked at that brightly painted ceramic pig and wondered where they came up with the idea? We have too! So we went searching.

Piggy banks actually originated in the Middle Ages, with the oldest to date Germanic piggy banks dating back to the 13th century. Back then, people would store their spare change in pots made of an orange clay called “pygg” (would have been pronounced more like pug). As the English language evolved, the ‘y’, which sounded like a ‘u’, eventually came to be pronounced as ‘I’ (why is English hard??). Coincidentally, the old English word for pig was “picga”, with the Middle East word evolving to “pigge”, most likely because the animals rolled around in pygg mud and dirt.

So over the next couple hundred years, as the languages and words grew and evolved, pygg and pigge began to be pronounced the same. People simply began to forget that pygg referred to a clay and was used for pots. In later centuries, as potters began getting requests for “pygg” banks, they began to shape them as pigs for an excellent play on the words and resulted in a fun little item that delighted children.

Unfortunately, the earlier banks weren’t made with the hole in the bottom where you could simply uncap to get your money out, so you quite literally had to “break the bank”. It’s quite rare to find one of these that are still intact because of this. If you do, there may be some treasures inside 😉🐷

01/13/2025

We’re (almost) always talking to the wine 😉

01/10/2025

Did you know that Ravenwood Foundation just released our very first newsletter? If you’re not already subscribed, please do so by going to Ravenwood Foundation’s website and follow the prompts to sign up!

Our newsletters feature important information such as upcoming events, special opportunities, and a chance to read about our volunteers, who are the backbone of the organization, and much more!

To stay up to date on all things Ravenwood, make sure you sign up! Huzzah!!

01/10/2025

January 9th marks the beginning of the trial of Joan of Arc in 1431. She would be found guilty and later executed in May of the same year.

Joan of Arc, a pious peasant in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where they achieved a stunning victory. After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by enemy forces, tried for witchcraft and burned at the stake at the age of 19. By the time she was canonized in 1920, Joan of Arc was considered one of history’s greatest martyrs, and the patron saint of France.

01/07/2025

When you finally see that dreaded post holiday electric bill 😐🫣