About Our Words: Praise For Eric Shackle
Elizabeth Hutchings from Freshwater Bay Isle of Wight was delighted by an article concerning the 200th anivversary of the birth of poet Alfed, Lord Tennyson written by journalist and Open Writing contributor Eric Shackle.
Another excellent story from Eric. On THE BIRTHDAY Freshwater Bay Residents' Association's wonderful new granite toposcope was unveiled near the Tennyson Monument. It will be a lasting memorial to the Laureate's bi-centenary.
The local school children worked out all the distances including the North Pole. Members of our Farringford Tennyson Literary & Arts Society, lead by our Chairman Verrall Dunlop read poems in All Saints Church and by the grave in which are buried Emily, Hallam, and his wife Audrey and their young son Harold. Also their son Lionel.
So sad that Emily is there but not her beloved Ally who is of course in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Thomas Woolner's marble bust is nearby and another copy in Trinity College Cambridge. We do hope that David Tennyson will visit us one day.
Farringford has an excellent free exhibition in Tennyson's library until September 9th. It includes many original letters and pictures and the plaster of Woolner's 1857 bust kindly lent by Haslemere Museum. The exhibition was curated by Veronica Franklin Gould and one of the owners Rebecca Fitzgerald. Martin Beisly, a born and bred Islander is the co-owner. It is in safe hands.
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