The WDM takes guests back to medieval times with annual feast
All the lords and ladies were out in costume Saturday night for the annual medieval feast hosted by the Western Development Museum (WDM).
The majority of guests dressed up for the occasion, as requested, and those that weren’t certainly felt out of place when Queen Shelly Flanagan put them on the spot for wearing such strange attire. She made those dressed out of place, or anyone who she deemed misbehaved, recite poetry, do a dance and even sometimes sentenced them to time locked in the stocks.
Flanagan said she was a tough, but fair queen and had quite the back story as to how she gained her place on the throne.
“My reign is going very well,” Flanagan said. “I’ve doled out some punishments and some rewards. My husband, sadly, ate some poison mushrooms and I inherited the crown from him.”