Storybook England

Storybook England is the title of a travel adventure film directed by Hal McClure which will be shown today, February 19, in Kenosha, Wisconsin:

Hal McClure’s “Storybook England” will be the topic of the Kenosha Public Museum’s Travelogue program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, at Reuther Central High School auditorium, 913 57th St.
Travel filmmaker McClure showcases the private places where some of the country’s most celebrated authors lived and worked — forever inscribing their names in English literature.
“England’s literary landscape is not only richly varied, but marked with great beauty and filled with some of the world’s most delightful characters,” said the producer, a veteran foreign correspondent before moving into filmmaking.
Starting with the London of Chaucer and Dr. Samuel Johnson, McClure whisks audiences to the charming south coast of Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling and Agatha Christie. Then on to Lewis Carroll’s Oxford, Shakespeare’s Stratford, the Yorkshire moors of the Brontë sisters and the Lake District of Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin and William Wordsworth.(...)
The film also includes the stories behind such popular nursery rhymes as “Ring Around the
The doors open at 6:45 p.m. and seating is unreserved. (The Journal Times)

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