Hardy and Cornwall

As this year is the centenary of Hardy's return to Cornwall in 1913, I thought it might be interesting to dig out some info about Boscastle. I quite like this reading of 'At Castle Boterel':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8WmIwaQdM

and this site has some photos of how Boscastle looked in the 1900s, when Hardy went back there.

http://www.oldukphotos.com/cornwall_boscastle2.htm

Just to remind all THS members, the Society is holding a weekend in Cornwall 7-10th March this year, to commemorate Hardy's Poems 1912-13.

The programme can be viewed here:

http://www.hardysociety.org/index.php/events[url][/url][url][/url]

There is a walk on the 8th that will take us over Windy Beak, the Cliff Without a Name, and through the Valency Valley, where Hardy and Emma lost the elusive picnic tumbler, as documented in 'Under the Waterfall.' The poem is reproduced, with interesting analysis, here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jun/06/poem-week-thomas-hardy