How would you change your local faire if you won the lottery

[DonaCatalina]

For starters I'd clean out that ditch in front of Middlefaire and have someone build them a good castle wall.
What about you?

[mehan]

Build them a pub! (CRF has no pub, none, nada)

[Auryn]

I would replant all the giant trees that were torn down by the hurricanes in 2005- im sick of looking at port a privees and the parking lot when I am watching the joust.
Also expand it and hire more entertainment

[Athena]

More permanent buildings toward the back by the Drift Inn (GLMF). Find a viable candidate to run for the Trumbull Township Board of Trustees, and pour lots of money (especially for publicity) into their campaign. New blood is needed, especially someone who would be sympathetic to faire and not throw away tax payer dollars trying to run it out of town.

ETA: Install flushies. I hate the port-o-privies.

[Mairte]

I dont think there is much I would change about MNRF....but then the behind the scenes people know a heck of a lot more than "I" do! 

[Merlin the Elder]

If I won a big enough lottery, I'd have to build a local faire, since we have none in my area. If it wasn't a big enough lottery win except enough to buy some land and build a house, I'd move to Waxahachie, and try to get on cast at Scarby, my home faire.

[LadyFae]

Well, at MNRF I'd do something to stop all of the mining so that we still have a usable site in the coming years!  Then I'd fix everything up- new paint, new buildings where needed (and not the type that look like Old West Saloons!)  Get a new Bear for Bear Stage...  This is just "outsider" ideas- I'd definately find out what the "insiders" know about what needs to be done and try to get it all taken care of!

[BLAKDUKE]

I would build a huge castle, so that the merchant and stage areas would be completly under cover.  The only open area would be the central courtyard for jousting.  at least the stage acts and merchants would be able to do business.  I would cover the jousters hat pass so they would not be out.   The food area would be set up though they were eating in a castle great hall.  This area would also double as a feast area for the "first knights feast".

[ArielCallista]

I'd prolly buy up a bunch of land right by Scarby and have it all set up as campgrounds...since there's nowhere to camp if you aren't working the faire...

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

At Bristol:

I would hire tons and tons of musical acts for the whole run of the faire, not just some weekends, because we love seeing them, and these past few years a lot - and I mean a lot - of our favorites aren't there anymore.  For $$$$ reasons I'm sure.  The average person hoots and howls at the Washing Well Wenches & the Mud Show, but we'd rather see more music.

Build another set of flushables on the other side of the faire.  Also expand the Friends of Faire garden & install flushies in there.  Those people who work there are angels and deserve a nice, comfortable place to work.

Paint the stage near the bakery so it looks like you are at a Renaissance Faire instead of at the County Faire.  Those colors are awful!

Have a roof on each stage.  When it's over 100 degrees, anything that might keep the sun off of you is a blessing.  Same goes for when it rains.

Have benches with backs at all the shows instead of those flat benches, many of which were split in 2 by the Three Sheets Stage this summer and were unusable.

Cover the pubs!  Have a place to sit down and congregate so you feel like you're in a real pub, not just go to the window, buy your drink, & stand around.  And the Pig & Whistle.  Put the bar in front, move the stage to where the bar is and the seats in the middle.  The acoustics on the stage are terrible, plus with people standing around talking - which of course is what you want to do in a pub - sometimes you can't hear the shows.

Not that I've thought about any of this before............

[Ferret]

Give booth owners a free year to help them out. Figure some incentives to keep booth owners happy and enable them to improve their situation.

More money into existing acts and into keeping performers wanting to perform there.

Own the land, leave it in a trust so the faire can continue to prosper and grow after I'm gone.
Ferret

[Lady Kett]

A large donation to Rescu.

Then improve the site buildings with roofs for shade and rain cover. Improve pathways, sound systems, stages, kitchens etc. Make sure you can have an opening gate show everyone can see (build the wall/walkways out, or be sure there IS a wall and walkway!)

Spring for some major charity days to bring people in with free or discount tickets. Make sure there was a campground for those so inclined. Schmooze the locals so they love you and the revenue you bring to the area.

And since I'm now swimming in money (at least in my lottery dream), have a longer season. Or make it two weekends a month every month of the year so we don't have a 10 month period of withdrawal. Include more work/school days -  you can get kids and companies to come out for events and not everyone has a M-F job.

I like Ferret's idea of leaving the land in a trust. Hadn't thought of that but going to borrow it!

[Craigmeister]

I would hire more Celtic bands (Tullamore immediately comes to mind) and have a couple more stages built to spread out the talent at King's Champion Medfaire.

[kcdcchef]

Buy the land on all four sides of the faire to keep it as "in the country" as possible, ( KCRF ) and then build them a winery like PARF.

[CapnFayeCutler]

I'd help Mr. Freeman finish his Castle Gwynn! I'd also donate a large sum to RESCU