Sarah "Lady Simone DeMares" Johnson cards wool during The Medieval and Renaissance Club's gathering while Corrine Vandergaast, a 4th grader at Tipton watches at Cornell College's Thompson Commons on Saturday, March 22, 2014. MeRC holds the small reneaissance festival every year to provide a forum for learning about medieval Europe, and was joined by other Eastern Iowans from the Society for Creative Anachronism for fighting and artistry demonstrations. (Justin Torner/Freelance for the Gazette)