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BY CONNIE LALONDE

Rappahannock News Contributing Writer

It was a day of jousting and feasting at Wakefield Country Day School, Huntly on Thursday at the school’s annual Medieval Banquet. The festivities started with the “donning of the costumes,” and the school was soon filled with pages, damsels, squires and ladies, milk maids, trumpeters and fortune-telling gypsies transporting students to another time.

As the Earl, his Lady and court arrived, all revelers bowed and curtsied, then the games of skill and strength began. The games drew from skills useful in the middle ages to give students a flavor of the times. Upper school students acted as Marshalls for the games.

The feast which followed the games consisted of spit-roasted “beast,” which had been slowly cooking throughout the day,

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