King Richard’s Faire is a Renaissance Faire held in Carver, Massachusetts, which recreates a 16th-century marketplace, including handmade crafts, foods, musicians, singers, dancers, minstrels, mimes, jugglers, whip artists, magicians, comedians, puppeteers, acrobats, animal acts, mud beggars, stilt walkers, knights jousting on horseback, a royal court, and the fictional King Richard.
King Richard’s Faire is the largest and longest-running Renaissance Faire in New England. These fascinating photos were taken by Joe+Jeanette Archie that show the King Richard’s Faire in 1978.