Medieval was the mood at Maywood Elementary School in Colonie in April 1969.
Kids in the sixth grade sponsored a fair that included costumes and displays from the days of knights and castles.
About 80 students worked on the project, and studied weapons, knights, music, entertainment, castles and home life of the medieval era. Young lords and ladies learned about crossbows, shields, convents and monasteries.
Beheadings, wedding murders, boy idiot kings and giant wolves may have been discussed; those subjects would turn up later in a popular medieval-themed television show.
Early spring of 1969 also saw people planting trees, participating in the then-popular “Up With People” movement and sampling culture south of the border. In Albany, Democrats met for an annual dinner and perhaps entertained thoughts for fall — and Election Day.
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