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By G m.kn C. McBridk
Kappah; nnock .Ww- Staff Writer
Zounds and forsooth! The duchy of Wakefield Country Day School hereby proclaims a day of great feasting, jousting and joy amongst all its inhabitants. Come ve. fair ladies and ;iohle sirs, to the royal banquet, on the twelfth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninetyJight. So saith their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Wakefield.
As the Duke’s Royal ’reclamation rings across the md. the merry students and ci.ool faculty assemble, lressed in festive garb, to partake of roasted wild beast, sweetings, and other delicacies, and compete in games of skill and endurance.
So doth Pamela LynnTucker. Wakefield medieval listory teacher, describe the school's sixteenth annual medieval revel. .
This project, which takes months of planning, is one of the most popular events of the Wakefield school year. The purpose of the banquet, said Lynn-Tucker, "is to make the period come alive.” Held in the school's multi-purpose auditorium, the banquet, jousting tournament. and royal fair are recreated, complete with fortune tellers, heralds, face painters, musicians, and colorful pavilions.
The teachers decorate the auditorium as a Great Hall, idding pointed Gothic arches md stained glass to the windows and hanging bright banners from the high, beamed ceiling. Mail-clad knights gallumph on spirited stick horses in the lists or topple each other >ff a balance beam using .padded quarterstaves, while •fair damsels and courtiers vie !for honors in period costumes, .pursue a grand quest, or enjoy light-hearted carnival games.
More than 150 parents, staff, and students in grades 312 participate. Each bring Old ."World linger food to share — There were no forks in the -Middle Ages — and a carved
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