This weekend is Eureka Rendezvous Days. The Eureka Chamber of Commerce has all of the details and schedule of events. As ever, it’s a busy couple of days. It’s worth checking for other events as well, because not everything fits on the poster. For example, the village vendors on Saturday coincides with the Friends of the Library Used Book Sale, though it’ll wrap up a bit earlier (3pm). And of course, there are three days to make the play, Belle of the Ball, performed by the Eureka Community Players.
About Rendezvous Past
Origins of the Word Rendezvous
One of the reasons that English is described as difficult to learn is the number of words- over 170,000! Of those, the majority are loan-words, words taken from other languages. The word Rendezvous is one such word. It was appropriated from the French, around 1600 (during a brief period in which Britain and France were not at war- as a result of competition with Spain). The original usage appears to be a verb: rendez vous meaning present yourselves. This then becomes the noun describing the place of meeting we are accustomed to. English has borrowed from…
2023 Rendezvous: view from the village
This year, my view of Rendezvous was from the historical village. It was a much warmer day, and very busy as time for the parade approached. Things were crowded, and much to my surprise we rarely heard the music from across the street at Riverside park over the hum of conversations. While the crowd seemed busy to me, and there seemed to be plenty of vendors (stretching up to folks with tables set up along the street), the recurrent conversation I kept hearing was about how much smaller things were. It was typically a nostalgic conversation,…
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