The Red House - Sharon Black: currently restocking
The Red House ('La Maison Rouge') was the last silk spinning mill in France, an industry which reached its peak here in 1853 and ended in 1965 when this mill in the Cévennes mountains closed its doors for the final time. It is now a museum about Cévenol life. Using museum objects as starting points, the poems in this volume explore the history and culture of this sparsely populated part of France, a region which RL Stevenson crossed in 1878, often comparing it with rocky, heather-filled areas of Scotland, and recounting his journey in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.
The Red House ('La Maison Rouge') was the last silk spinning mill in France, an industry which reached its peak here in 1853 and ended in 1965 when this mill in the Cévennes mountains closed its doors for the final time. It is now a museum about Cévenol life. Using museum objects as starting points, the poems in this volume explore the history and culture of this sparsely populated part of France, a region which RL Stevenson crossed in 1878, often comparing it with rocky, heather-filled areas of Scotland, and recounting his journey in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.
The Red House ('La Maison Rouge') was the last silk spinning mill in France, an industry which reached its peak here in 1853 and ended in 1965 when this mill in the Cévennes mountains closed its doors for the final time. It is now a museum about Cévenol life. Using museum objects as starting points, the poems in this volume explore the history and culture of this sparsely populated part of France, a region which RL Stevenson crossed in 1878, often comparing it with rocky, heather-filled areas of Scotland, and recounting his journey in Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.