The grant and the band

On Keighley News Robin Jackson, chairman of the Haworth Village Association complains about the lack of manpower in staging community group efforts:

Mr Jackson said: “We have a manpower problem when it comes to staging events.
“The last 60s weekend fell on very few shoulders.
“Despite our success we’ve very few bodies. There is some doubt as to whether we can run this (60s) weekend next year. This is the last year we can stage things in an amateur way — we are going to have to make sure all events are properly stewarded.”
He said he and his colleagues were mainly looking for volunteers to carry out simple tasks such as erecting gazebos, putting up bunting or stewarding crowds. (Miran Rahman)

More Brontë country news. The Halifax Evening Courier and the Hebden Bridge Times talk about the efforts to promote local heritage:

It will also be possible to study the influence of authors such as Ted Hughes and the Brontes, the development of roads, railways and canals by following trails covering such things as the ancient Erringden Deer Park and the Sowerby Ramble. (Michael Peel)

The Daily Mail talks about literary homes and mentions the Brontë Parsonage:

Aficionados make a pilgrimage to the West Yorkshire parsonage where Emily Bronte created her brooding characters with their tempestuous passions played out on windswept moors.
Jane Austen's house, Chawton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
But homes such as these are not just tourist attractions, many more are in private hands or on the market. (Gwenda Brophy)

Another Brontë somewhat decontextualised reference appears in the Religion blog of the The Times:

One of the first recipients of a grant was the Rev Patrick Bronte, Rector of Haworth, who was able to employ Rev Arthur Nicholls as curate as a result. Mr Nicholls went on to marry Charlotte Bronte who mentions the charity on the first page of her novel Shirley. The charity's objective today remains what is was then, to see the church equipped to cope with rapidly changing social circumstances. (Ruth Gledhill)

Glasswerk interviews the rock band Young Guns. Vocals Gustav Woods turns out to be an unexpected Brontëite:

You won't be writing any concept albums just yet
--No(laughs).That Lit sensibility’s just there in my make-up, along with being a front-man. I think I’m still trying to figure out my voice as a lyricist, which goes back to the point about us being a young band. We’re evolving. But the inspiration definitely comes from the combination of art bearing on life in a way hopefully the words and sounds express. Though I certainly used to read a lot of classic world literature. At one point around 16, I was also really into that emotive Bronte style- Wuthering Heights, Romanticism. There’s still an element of that in the songs. (Martin)

The New York Post blog PopWrap also unveils Kelly Clarkson's Brontëiteness:

An avid reader, Kelly says her favorite book is "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. (Jarett)

The Telegraph reviews Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark and mentions her tempestuous relationship with Derek Stanford, co-author of Emily Brontë: Her Life and Work.

Seymour, Sergeant and Stanford were clearly terrified of Spark, and she had soon fallen out with all three as well as everyone else at the Poetry Society, where she lost her job. She suffered a breakdown, brought on by diet pills, in which she found satanic coded messages throughout her edition of TS Eliot. Meanwhile, her relationship with Derek Stanford, with whom she collaborated on books about Wordsworth and Emily Brontë, was in its usual state of crisis. (Frances Wilson)

Britney posts about Wuthering Heights (in Dutch), Flickers recommends Wuthering Heights 1939, Honeydripper Blog talks about Wuthering Heights 2003. Finally a post to be savoured: Joseph Grinton's In Emily's Chair.

Categories: Brontëites, Haworth, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Wuthering Heights