Oh, To Be In England

Michelle Carrillo Vance Eaton Eric Gannon Eric Ham Justin Harber Alex Haseley Rob Hedglen Ruth Jun Kyle Kramer Jason Mounts Curtis Nieboer Eric Poole Kendra Russell Karen Wheeler Guy Workman

Click the picture to see who's who.

Faculty who accompanied them were Profs. Alan Baragona, Helen Emmitt, and Ian Crump.

Cadets saw three plays, Noel Coward's vintage 1930s comedy Fallen Angels, Yasmina Reza's contemporary Art, and Shakespeare's Henry V performed at the Barbican Theatre by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In London, the entire group toured the Globe Theatre, the British Museum, the Imperial War Museum, Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London and saw the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Individuals and smaller groups also toured the Museum of London, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Gallery, the Courtauld Gallery, the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate (Milton's burial place), and various other museums and landmarks. Jason Mounts and Prof. Baragona made a pilgrimage to Abbey Road, and Prof. Baragona went on his own quest to find the original site of the Tabard Inn of Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims (it wasn't easy).

The group also took two day-trips, one to Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick Castle and another to Canterbury, Leeds Castle, and Dover Beach. Stratford, of course, was the starting point for William Shakespeare, and Canterbury Cathedral, the ending point for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but the other sites have literary connections, as well. Warwick Castle was the home place of the feudal lord of Sir Thomas Malory, author of the 15th-century Le Morte D'Arthur, and Dover Beach is the setting of Matthew Arnold's famous poem by the same name. Leeds Castle was the place where Henry V brought Catherine of Valois back from France (for which see the final scenes of Shakespeare's Henry V).

To see pictures of the group's excursions, click any of the pictures below.

London

Stratford

Canterbury

Warwick Castle

Leeds Castle

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This web site was created by Prof. Alan Baragona. Copyright VMI Department of English and Fine Arts, 2001. Please do not save or use any photographs from this site without permission. Contact Prof. Baragona at BaragonaA@vmi.edu.