The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0260  Wednesday, 20 June 2012

From:        Herbert Weil < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date:         June 18, 2012 7:29:57 PM EDT

Subject:     Re: SHAKSPER: Stratford

>It is good to read about Ambleside where we started staying in 

>1968 when I gave my first talk at the conference. Pam Barnacle 

>ran a superb B&B—and would take nothing, except presents for 

>her children, for watching ours who were 5 and 1.  Her quality 

>was not followed by her immediate successor. All of the B&Bs 

>we stayed in after she retired have either been sold or have 

>stopped taking guests. In 1910, the Falcon matched B&B 

>prices and offered a good lounge in which to read and write.

Correction:

The reference in my last line to the Falcon should of course be for the 2010 conference.

Cheers,

Herb