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Click heThe topic for our March meeting was Jean-Jaques Rousseau. For some this might seem an unlikely local topic but as the speaker, local historian, ex farmer, ex teacher, councillor and sometime Denstone thespian, Ed Barker, explained, Rousseau enjoyed the delights of the Staffordshire countryside in 1766 to 1767, likening it on his arrival, to Switzerland. Ed illustrated his talk with slides of the area around Wootton and Ellastone that Rousseau walked and wrote about. Ed also had slides of the original Wootton Hall, Rousseau’s Grotto and Calwich Abbey where he visited often to talk in French with the only French speaker at that time in the area. Ed had many anecdotes of the characters and places of that time and his local knowledge and enthusiasm for the topic was appreciated by all the members. The competition for the evening was “Something French” and was won by Jean Wright, with her French milk churn.
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