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The novel, set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, tells the story of two children, Colin and Susan, who are staying with some old friends of their mother while their parents are overseas. Susan possesses a small tear-shaped jewel held in a bracelet: unknown to her, this is the weirdstone of the title.
'Or anywhere else, for that matter. ' " [12] The hall has a "very old banqueting-hall, stables stand to the right of the house, as viewed from the river" [11] and a "large boat-house" is located on the riverbank. [11] Despite Toad's pride in, or vanity regarding, his ancestral home, he takes little care over its maintenance.
Mountain Farm Museum Self-Guided Tour (Gatlinburg: Great Smoky Mountains Association, date not given). Thomason, Phillip and Williams, Michael. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Elkmont Historic District. April–July 1993, pp. 8–19. PDF file. Trout, Ed.
Toad of Toad Hall is a play written by A. A. Milne – the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows – with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson. It was originally produced by William Armstrong at the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool , on 21 December 1929.
The Gatlinburg Trolley, a privately funded public transit system, caters to area tourists. [50] The Gatlinburg SkyLift takes visitors up 1,800 feet (550 m) to the top of Crockett Mountain, [51] to the longest footbridge in the US which spans two mountains. [52] Ober Mountain [53] is the only ski resort in the state. It has eight ski trails ...
A. A. Milne's 1929 play Toad of Toad Hall was based on the book. [ citation needed ] William Horwood wrote several children's novels, Tales of the Willows , continuing the original story. [ 4 ] The 2013 graphic adventure video game The Wolf Among Us , based on the Fables comic book series, features Mr. Toad as "a foul-mouthed taxi-driver ...
Toad of Toad Hall is a 1946 British TV adaptation of the 1929 play Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne, [1] itself an adaptation of the 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. It was produced by Michael Barry who presented the same play again the following year with many different cast members. [ 2 ]
The 15.8-mile (25.4 km) Old Settlers Trail crosses the Tyson McCarter Place 3.2 miles (5.1 km) west of the trail's junction with the Maddron Bald Trail (near the Sevier-Cocke county line). An unmarked 0.5-mile (0.80 km) gravel maintenance road (usually gated, but open to foot traffic) connects the Tyson McCarter Place to U.S. Route 321 , just ...