Etched in Stone: Scotland to Provence - Burbeen Free Lecture Series

The Burbeen Free Lecture series continues with a film and lecture entitled “Etched in Stone: Scotland to Provence” presented by Monty Brown.

Stonehenge, Hadrian’s Wall, the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde -- from the Irish Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, everywhere, stories and legends of the glorious past are written in stone in churches, castles, monuments and monoliths.

In this original film narrated by the lecturer, the audience will travel Scotland, England and France and visit locations such as the evocative red stone ruins of Sweetheart Abbey, surely the inspiration for Valentine’s Day, a typical English village, with its medieval church, castle duck pond and buttercross, peaceful byways rarely seen by tourists, etched glass windows, the tallest spire in Europe, country churches, stone shepherds’ huts, castles, and a church built on a rock.

Monty Brown has had a colorful career including traveling with an acting company, working in television production, radio announcer, playwright, singer and songwriter. Along with his wife Marsha, he was the recipient of the 2005 "Rising Stars" Award, given by their peers in the Travel Adventure Cinema Society.

The program will be held in the Joyce Middle School auditorium at 55 Middle St. in Woburn. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the program begins at 7 p.m. No tickets or reservations are required and admission is free.

The Burbeen Free Lecture Series was established by Leonard Thompson in 1892 to present an annual course of lectures on interesting topics of the day for the benefit of the community.