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The theatre was the brainchild of Rowena Cade, who moved to Cornwall after the First World War and built a house for herself and her mother on land at Minack Point for £100. [3] Her sister was the feminist dystopian author Katharine Burdekin , who lived with them from the 1920s. [ 4 ]
Rowena Cade (1893–1983) was the creator of the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.. Cade was born in Spondon near Derby on 2 August 1893. [1] She was the older sister of Katharine Burdekin and with her two brothers they lived at The Homestead in Spondon.
Hewn out of the cliff at Minack Point and overlooking the sea to the Logan Rock is the open-air Minack Theatre, the inspiration of Rowena Cade in the early 1930s. It is named for St. Salomon of Cornwall, father of St. Kubi. The brythonic form of the name 'Solomon' is 'Selevan', which was later wrongly interpreted as 'Sen Levan' , ie 'Saint Levan'.
The Newport Folk Festival was cofounded in 1959 by jazz promoter George Wein and music manager Albert Grossman. (The latter is best known for representing Dylan between 1962 and 1970.)
Derek Alan Trevithick Tangye (29 February 1912 – 26 October 1996) [1] was a British author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years. He wrote nineteen books which became known as The Minack Chronicles, about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of Cornwall with his wife Jeannie, née Jean Everald ...
DeAscentisAs we are seeing, any reclaimed land will have strong pressures for commercial/business use.Newport City Yard needs a good solid and permanent home. I would hope that any use would also ...
A section of Washington State Route 31 in Colville National Forest. State Route 31 (SR 31) is a Washington state highway located entirely in Pend Oreille County.The highway, which is 26.79 miles (43.11 km) long, starts at an intersection with SR 20 in Tiger and travels north to the Canada–US border north of Metaline Falls.
Newport, Washington seen in a real photo postcard mailed on October 7, 1913. Newport was given its name in 1890 due to its selection as a landing site for the first steamboat on the Pend Oreille River. [6] Newport was officially incorporated on April 13, 1903. [7] The first river bridge was built in 1906, and was replaced in 1926, [6] and again ...