Oh, To Be In England

Justin Abbinante Joel Andrus Dave Becker John Casper Tamara Ferguson Matt Hendricks Ronnie Hull Stan Kielczewski Ted Nevatt Amie-Anne Novak Bo Pasko Will Ragland Sam Stephens

Click the picture to see who's who.

Faculty who accompanied them were Profs. Alan Baragona and Roger Thompson.

Cadets saw three plays, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Peter Hall and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson; The Feast of Snails, by Icelandic novelist and playwright Olaf Olafsson and starring David Warner in his return to the London stage after nearly 30 years; and Shakespeare's Hamlet, performed at the Barbican Theatre by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In London, the entire group toured the Globe Theatre, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Art, 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 St. Paul's Cathedral, the Museum of London, the Tate Modern, Tower Bridge and various other museums and landmarks.

As in the previous year, the group also took two day-trips, one to Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick Castle and another to Canterbury, Leeds Castle, and Dover Beach. Dover Beach is the setting of Matthew Arnold's famous poem by the same name (it's always cold when we go there, which would explain the poem). Leeds Castle has a Virginia connection. It was once owned by Lord Fairfax, who founded Fairfax, VA, and put up a sundial in Fairfax that was oriented to show the time in Leeds and a sundial in Leeds that was oriented to show the time in Virginia.

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

London

Oxford & Stratford

Warwick Castle

Canterbury

Leeds Castle and Dover

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