When was/will be the 500th day of MDRF?

[javasaurus]

I did a bit of estimating recently, and it's quite possible that sometime this season was/will be the 500th day of the Maryland Ren Fest. However, I don't have the resources to actually count the days.

I made lots of grand assumptions with no basis in reality, but they seem reasonable. For example, I assumed that the first three years were for 7 days each (including labor day), and during the next several years expanded to 5 or 6 weekends (11 or 13 days each season). I assumed 8 weekends once the fest moved to Crownsville, and 9 weekends starting about 12 or 13 years ago.

Does anybody have hard numbers?

Comments

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Hmm... do you count, or not count the one closed day that I know about?

Wonder what would happen if you asked that question at cast call tomorrow?

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

Well, for my personal count, that day is irrelevant. Do you happen to know which day it was?

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Before I started ... there was apparently one year with *much* rain... and a morning that started out drippy, so they decided to close the site for the day - then it turned beautiful on them. There *are* several on cast who were there then, as the story came up again at Kelso's b-day dinner... can't remember for certain who though.