Budleigh Past and Present

Below is a rather long list of organisations which have been contacted in relation to Raleigh 400 – marking the 400 th anniversary of the death of Sir Walter Raleigh. Some of them are actively organising or participating in a Raleigh 400 event in 2018; some seem not to be, or are thinking about it! Please let me know if you can see an organisation which is missing from this list and which you think should be included. In Devon Ashburton , Exeter Inn https://www.facebook.com/TheExeterInnAshburton/ Axminster , River Cottage https://www.rivercottage.net/ Bicton   Bicton Woodland Railway  https://www.bictongardens.co.uk/ Budleigh Salterton The Arts Society  http://www.budfas.org/ Bowmers Restaurant http://www.bowmers.com/ The Brook Gallery http://www.brookgallery.co.uk/ Budleigh in Bloom http://www.budleighinbloom.co.uk/ Budleigh Journal http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/home Budleigh Library https://www.face...

  Above: How Native Americans coped with alligators 400 years ago   Florida in August… Disneyland and beaches, hurricanes and alligators. Maybe it wasn’t the best time to visit the Sunshine State. It was humid and very, very hot. But the family wedding I attended, in between the devastations of hurricanes Harvey a nd Irma, was everything that the happy couple could wish for. And the rain held off, just about. There’s a close season for hurricanes but alligators are a year-round hazard in Florida. An unexpected meeting with of one of the creatures in a pond at Kanapaha State Park outside Gainesville reminded me of how they were tackled by the indigenous population four centuries ago. This celebrated engraving comes from a book published in 1590. It was entitled 'A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia’, written by Thomas Harriot, and published in four languages with illustrations by the Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry....