MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • May 15, 2022
Zoe Lawson welcomed visitors to her canvas pavilion at Bradbury Mountain State Park, where her camping area was set up with a fringed medieval tent, handmade wooden tables, benches, bowls and a handheld butter churner that Lawson pumped while walking around. As onlookers stopped by the primitive campsite, Lawson invited them to stop back later to watch her butcher a chicken. Welcome to campfire cooking, medieval style. The Massachusetts woman came to join one of the Maine chapters of the Society for Creative Anachronism as they opened the camping season at Bradbury Mountain State Park a few weeks ago. About 50 turned out to share, discuss and swap recipes.