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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a side-note, Shrewbury Abbey, where the books are set, is not very far from where I live, and has a beautiful stained-glass window dedicated to Ellis Peters, featuring scenes from the "Brother Cadfael" books. The Abbey receives a percentage of the income from the books, and it's an important source of revenue for them. They also sell a little book of "Brother Cadfael" walks, which take you around the various locations in the books (which are all real places).
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Perhaps you might offer a 'Brother Cadfael "Literary" walk' for people. I used to do something similar but centered around the poet Robert Frost. There is a 'Robert Frost Memorial Trail' in the mountains of Vermont where he spent so many of his later years, with wooden tablets inscribed with many of his poems along the trail. The trail is close to the house where he lived and was one of his favorite walking spots. You can stand in the actual spot where he got the idea for 'The Road Not Taken,' and look down the path and see just "where it bent in the undergrowth." It really makes the writing come alive! We would walk the trail, and at each intersection read another of his works. Great fun!
Stitchawl