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Medieval News Archive06-Jan-2007
The Heritage Lottery Fund awards nearly £50,000 to a decaying Medieval castle in Shropshire. Old and new come together in Andy Ward's world. In Ward's shop near Avoca, the new 10,000 computer-assisted plasma cutter gets more use than the circa 1800s coal-fired forge or the World War II metal lathe, but some jobs require all three. And Ward wouldn't have the skills he needs to make everything from decorative gates to belt buckles if he hadn't spent his youth building armor for Medieval ... The quiet German village of Meerholz doesn't get a lot of attention as a rule, but a mass of muddy footprints in Eckhard Paul's wheat field bears witness to an unusual flurry of visitors this week. NORWICH ? Eastern Connecticut has its fair share of chicken, spaghetti and lobster dinner fund-raisers, but tonight?s Twelfth Night medieval feast stood apart. What do the band Black Sabbath and a novel spun from Medieval battle have in common? Only that new author Brian Bloor found inspiration for his book, "In the Company of Darkness," from listening to one of the band's songs, "Lost Children of the Sea."
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