On a cool summer morning, as the rays of the rising sun beamed through the trees, accompanied by hoots and screeches of birds of prey and Queen's “Don’t Stop Me Now” blaring from a car, a man takes one last toke while dressing in Renaissance-era clothing to head out on his quest ― of work during the Michigan Renaissance Festival.

Nearby, master falconer Will Lubrano, 61, of Paige, Texas ― better known as Sir William Linsley Wadsworth, a name that incorporates his family’s British heritage ― emerges from a farmhouse, far from the land of lattes where he once worked in corporate America, traveling the land as a national service manager for Starbucks. Lubrano readies his birds, each named after mythological gods and goddesses and living in an individual enclosure.

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