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Simply Dickens
Eastpointe teens Tom Giorlando and Kourtney Weishaupt formed
Simply Dickens in 2001 when they began performing Old World
Christmas music at the Dickens Old Time Christmas Festival in Holly,
Michigan. Within a year and a half, in the spring of 2003, they were
performing turn-of-the-20th-century popular tunes, then branching
out into music of the British Isles by the summer of that year.
Autumn saw them singing Civil War era songs. In the last two years
the two have added a third (and sometimes a fourth) vocalist, which
gave them the opportunity to sing in the four part madrigal style
renaissance period music. At the Erin-Halfway Days festival Simply
Dickens will be peforming music of the 19th century.
Royal Jamison Punch and Judy Theatre
Come see the timeless battling puppets that have
entertained children of all ages for literally hundreds of
years.
Jamie Doudreau - professor
Snake Oil Medicine by Dr. Will Gagalot (Old
time medicine show)
Presenting the miracle cure passed down from the
Pharoah's by Dr. Gagalot, the expert of mystical cures, mixer of
miraculous potions, and the driver of wagons.
PERIOD CLOTHING FASHION
SHOW
Mentioning
Unmentionables
What secrets did our
ancestors keep hidden underneath their
outerwear?
How did they make
their back ends look so big?
What effects did
waist cinching have besides providing an hourglass
figure?
Find out the answer
to these and other questions at the
Erin Half-Way Days
Festival on Saturday, July 14th.
Kim Parr, Director of
the Crocker House Museum in Mount Clemens, will review interesting
aspects of 18th and 19th century
underclothing. This program includes a dressing
demonstration covering the time periods of the Middle Ages through
to World War I
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Period “Outer-Wear” Clothing Fashion Show
Erin-Halfway
Days is a living history festival. Not only do we
celebrate the history of our great area, we also celebrate the
people who lived it. And in doing so, we can learn
a great deal about the time period from their manner of
dress. Join us at Erin-Halfway Days this year as we present
a Period Clothing Fashion Show starring you! We
invite everyone who attends to time-travel along with us,
and wear period clothing. Authentic or
reproduction, no matter how early or late, from the Colonial days
through the Roaring ‘20’s, we would love to see it - and if you
do, we'll might include you in our show! Lynn Anderson,
President of the Greater Clinton Township Historical Society, will
talk about the history and fashions of this area, from the
earliest days of Native Americans and French Voyagers up through
the 20th Century, using our costumed guests as participants.
So plan your time-travel clothing now - and we'll see you on July
14th! | 
