By NICK GARDINER, THE RECORDER AND TIMES
SPENCERVILLE — Where would you put 410 people dressed in period clothing from the 1800s?
In the Guinness World Book of Records, of course.
That’s the plan for the Spencerville Mill’s Bicentennial Heritage Fair committee, which is counting on fair volunteers, re-enactors from far and wide and local residents to garb up in their Regency finery to cinch the Guiness title in June.
“We’re already halfway there (to a record),” said Alicia Wanless, a director of the mill and manager of the St. Lawrence War of 1812 Alliance, which has ties to the event.
Wanless said organizers are assured of 250 people showing up for the record-breaking attempt in Regency costume, including about 100 fair volunteers and confirmed re-enactors such as the Canadian Fencibles and a civilian cohort that accompanies them on tour. Read More>>
