More and more people are trading in the corporate life, dissatisfied with the commercial driven options the 'brand' world is offering and turning to the thrill and excitement of fantasy and times past. Since time travel, either forward or back, isn't an option yet, participation in the past becomes an attractive break. The lure of the past -- beckoning to you. You might call it escapism, but for some the escape turns into the life. It's real. For some, recreating, teaching others and performing the past is their life.

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A forest of virgin spruce trees on Monhegan Island, Maine, is believed by many to be inhabited by faeries. For years hundreds of visitors to the island faithfully build houses to "help" the winged creatures. Shelters of twigs and other manmade materials dot the forest floor. But sometimes during the night a strong force sweeps through the trees -- a "stomper" -- or a person opposed to the building of the houses, will stomp on and destroy some or all of the little shelters in an effort to protect what truly keeps the faeries alive.

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