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A Canal Life; Park Has 2 Lock Houses, And Their Lore, for Lease
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For rent: 1830s whitewashed stone cottage, surrounded by water.
Canal view. River view. Kitchen fireplace. Perhaps a ghost or two.
Must have flood insurance.
House washed away only once, in 1847.
Call the C&O Canal National Historical Park for details.
The cash-strapped C&O Canal park is, indeed, offering for lease
two of its historic lock tenders' houses. The park's administrators
hope to find caring tenants who will help maintain the historic
buildings and, perhaps, enjoy the lore of canal life.
The ideal renters will be adventurous souls willing to join a
fraternity of a bygone way of life, ...
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Villeins and churls all set for the fayre
Newspaper article from: Citizen Gloucestershire, The
; Westgate: Preparations for the city's highly successful Medieval Fayre are well underway. Organisers behind the event, now in its fourth year, say this year's spectacular is set to draw more visitors than ever with its action, music and historical flavour. The fayre and banquet is on June 14 in
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Arts: An unchivalrous profession Brian Helgeland's film of dashing deeds in the Middle Ages is not just another heroes and villeins story, suggests James Mottram. It's also a tilt at Hollywood's kingmakers
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; In Tinseltown terms, Brian Helgeland knows what it means to be a peasant. A former screenwriter who won an Oscar for his collaboration with director Curtis Hanson on the adaptation of James Ellroy's devilishly convoluted novel LA Confidential, Helgeland has an acute understanding of the Hollywood
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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The making of Aston.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; ...population was made up of 30 villeins, twelve bordars and one serf - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans...the open fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves...supporting. Both bordars and villeins were unfree peasants but unlike...
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The making of Aston
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail
; ...population was made up of 30 villeins, twelve bordars and one serf - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans...theopen fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves...supporting. Both bordars and villeins were unfree peasants but unlike...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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From farmstead to the Aston of today.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England)
; ...population was made up of 30 villeins, twelve bordars and one serf - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans...the open fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves...a manor. Both bordars and villeins were unfree peasants or serfs...
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From farmstead to the Aston of today
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail
; ...population was made up of 30 villeins, twelve bordars and one serf - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans...the open fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves...a manor. Both bordars and villeins were unfree peasants or serfs...
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The Times finds new ways to villainize gays and lesbians.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...tended to side with the "knights rather than the villeins." "Villeins" refers to a class of feudal serfs. Justice Scalia...irresponsibly and substituted "villains" for "villeins." The Times then repeatedly misquoted the dissent...
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A mighty manor through history; Remember When?(Features)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England)
; ...its population. Northfield had seven villeins, 16 bordars, six cottars or cottagers...slave) - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans and it...amongst the open fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves but had...
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A mighty manor through history Remember When?
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail
; ...its population. Northfield had seven villeins, 16 bordars, six cottars or cottagers...slave) - and their families. The term villein was introduced by the Normans and it...amongst the open fields of a manor. Villeins were able to support themselves but had...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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2002 HAD ITS SHARE OF GOOD GUYS.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...that promises to little people don't count. "Villeins ye are, and villeins ye shall remain." During the late spring and...Sept. 11 commission - became non-operational. Villeins ye are ... Yet some good guys did win victories...
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