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Festivals come in all shapes and sizes. While there are plans in East Budleigh for a Peacemaker Festival, only ten minutes away by road in a neighbouring village is a rather different event known as the Woodbury Wide Awake Festival.
The Festival started in 2019, explain the organisers on its website. ‘It explored the life, work and legacy of former local resident and renowned botanist Reverend William Keble Martin - who authored and illustrated the best-selling book The Concise British Flora in Colour (1965), and died in the parish just over 50 years ago in 1969.
The festival also focused on the natural environment locally, on changes that have occurred in it over the last 50 years, and on environmental challenges for the future.’
A different event, but both East Budleigh and Woodbury festivals have been inspired by the lives of worthy people from the past who deserve to be better known.
If you are interested in the history of early America, and Roger Conant as a peacemaker in troubled times, you can join the Devon Peacemaker Festival Facebook group at
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