A typical day at The Grosse Pointe Academy generally does not involve knighthood ceremonies, three-course meals or judgments, but then again Friday, May 18 was not a typical day at GPA. While the seventh graders tested their physical skills at Camp Storer and the eighth graders took in the sights on their Cleveland trip, the sixth graders ruled the land with the annual sixth grade medieval feast.

Organized by social studies teachers Harriett Whitaker and Mary Jo Johnson, the event has become a popular tradition among the students. Parents, or "serving wenches," served a first course of bread, soup and pears, a second course of chicken, roast potatoes and baby carrots, and a final course of dessert. In between courses, King Michael (Fultz) and Queen Harriett (Whitaker) and an assortment of guests that included a priest, lords and ladies of the manor, knights and squires, all seated according to their status, enjoyed a knighthood, entertainment by musicians, dancers, jugglers, poets, jesters and even a yo-yo artist, and several judgments during which folks in the gallery decide whether an evildoer should be set free or sent to the dungeon.