From: Roy Flannagan [roy@gwm.sc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:35 PM To: owner-milton-l@richmond.edu Subject: The Beaufort SC Seventh International Milton Symposium: News id f9NLXoj22533 Status: Sender: owner-milton-l@richmond.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: milton-l@richmond.edu The Seventh International Milton Symposium is swimming with head well above the water so far. We won a major regional grant to help with professional videotaping of the production, and we will begin screening local talent for minor speaking roles, musicians, and dancers in December, to complement the British actors and director flying in to manage the performance of the masque. The program is filled with over 100 talks and includes panels on “Milton and the Natural World,” “Milton and Early Modern Nationalism,” “Milton’s Sonnets,” “Milton in Hypertext,” and “Milton’s Sexualities.” Plenary Speakers include Annabel Patterson, Victoria Kahn, John Hale, Joseph Wittreich, Neil Keeble, Thomas Corns, and David Norbrook. Please send copies of any last minute paper submissions (not proposals) to Sharon Achinstein . Those who have been given notice that their abstracts have been accepted and all plenary speakers are asked to send us electronic copies of their abstracts (as part of an email message) so that the abstracts may be included among the IMS7 Web-pages, at this URL http//ims7.bol3.com I will be posting notices about transportation from Savannah, easily accessible through the Atlanta hub, to Beaufort. Savannah's airport is small, pleasant, manageable; the ride to Beaufort is a pleasant hour's drive, mostly on I-95 north. Those attendees who want to see Charleston or Savannah as well as Beaufort may want to rent autos in Savannah. We plan to supply buses­either chartered or through a commercial service­for the round-trip coming into or leaving the Symposium. We are aiming to keep most if not all of the Symposium activities located within walking distance of the best of local accommodations, and we have booked at total of about 70 rooms split between the Beaufort Inn (genteel ambiance and wonderful food) and the Sea Island Inn (breakfast and swimming pool, on the Bay), the two nicest places to stay in the historic district. A motor inn that provides breakfast or a bed and breakfast inn will be a bargain for any family staying as a unit, and the maximum charged is still lower than present convention rates, say, in Atlanta. We are encouraging attendees to patronize the Beaufort Inn and the Sea Island Inn and other downtown B&Bs and restaurants because the local ATAX (Accommodations Tax) has provided the Symposium with major funding for the masque, which will be performed once free at the wharf in Beaufort and will be videotaped professionally, as a result. We hope to provide a taste of the ambiance of Beaufort for the Symposium, and we encourage attendees to discover the joys of local kayaking or water tours, swimming in a wild ocean setting on nearby Hunting Island, walking the Old Point historic district to see where Nick Nolte stayed during the filming of The Prince of Tides, or seeing The Castle, where the cursing ghost of Renaissance French dwarf is supposed to live. There are also some excellent restaurants in Beaufort, excellent opportunities for fishing, hunting for antiquities, tours of various mansions and plantations. Unfortunately, since USC in Beaufort is not a residential college, there are no dormitory facilities, but, if you plan on renting a car, there are cheaper motels on the fringes of town. And, if someone would like to rough it and sleep in a cabin on the beach, or on the beach itself, I can talk to them about how to do that legally. Roy Flannagan, Director Seventh International Milton Symposium June 4-8, 2002, Beaufort, SC