May 20, 2013

Summer Stock on Cornwall’s Granite Cliffs

Minack Theater, Cornwall, UK. Image courtesy VisitBritain.
Discover how one determined woman turned a heather-sprigged gully into the stunning Minack Theatre over the Atlantic.

Rowena Cade scavenged beams from a shipwrecked Spanish freighter and learned to etch cement with a screwdriver when she ran out of money for granite. This labor of love kept her toiling, no matter how awful the winter weather, into her mid-80s with only the help of two craftsmen. Read more via my story for Yahoo Visit Britain.

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