We’ve all have dreamed of being a knight in shining armor or a princess saved from evil by said knight.
There is a place between Selma and Marion where you can step back in time to the medieval period and live that dream. The place is Dalwhinnie Fields, and it is the brainchild of Joe Farley.
Farley has been a member of the Society for Creative Anachronisms (SCA), a Medieval reenactment group, for 30 years. “It’s everybody’s dream to build a castle,” Farley said. “When I was on deployment in Afghanistan, I did some surfing around (the internet) and saw where some Polish people were building a medieval village for their kids to keep them out of trouble. My friends and I decided if they could do it, so could we. So we started looking and found a piece of property in Marion.”
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