Jamestowne Society
First California Company
Cordially invites you and your guests to the Winter Luncheon
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Walter’s Restaurant, 308 N. Yale Ave., Claremont
12:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Barbara Barbarics, Special Guest Speaker
“The Sea Venture, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth’s London”

Luncheon: $ 32 payable to First California Company by February 19, 2011
Annual dues: $30 Members, $20 Friends, if you are not current

Please send luncheon check and/or dues renewal to:
Harry Holgate, Treasurer
115 West Fourth Street, #208, Long Beach, CA 90802
Questions: Call Ginny Gotlieb 818-635-5764 or email fccjamestownegov@gmail.com
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The Program: “The Sea Venture, Shakespeare, and Elizabeth’s London”
Our winter meeting should be especially fun. Barbara Barbarics will review the story of the Third Supply of Jamestown, which may have inspired William Shakespeare to write his final play, “The Tempest”. See the enclosed article from our FCC blog/online newsletter for a brief summary of this amazing episode in Jamestown history.
To read other blog articles, go to http://fccjamestowne.blogspot/

Understanding London and Shakespeare’s’ audience at the beginning of the seventeenth century provides a context for understanding the economic striving and social and political turmoil that were characteristic of Jamestown’s earliest years. To illustrate this, Ms. Barbarics will bring items of clothing typical of the period, which tell us a surprising amount about the difference between gentlemen and laborers. Shakespeare’s play puts on stage fear of unknown people and places, efforts subjugating and educating, class structure and the responsibilities of those in authority, magical thinking, duplicity and capacity for redemption. Ms. Barbarics will discuss how Jamestown and the play reveal aspects of the English mindset as England began to transform from a medieval culture to an economic and world power. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” (Prospero, The Tempest, IV, I, 148-158).

Barbara Barbarics is active with the English Speaking Union and has served on the committee for the Los Angeles area’s Shakespeare Competition. She has been part of the Summer Workshop in Teaching Shakespeare, co-sponsored by the Huntington Library and the English Speaking Union. She is the retired co-chair of the San Marino High School English Department. Barbara has won awards for her teaching and presentations, including awards from DAR. A TAP “Excellence in Teaching” grant allowed her to study in England on the topic “Castle to Manor House.” She was educated at Roanoke College and the University of Virginia.

The Venue and Schedule
A lively favorite of faculty and students, Walter’s Restaurant is in the heart of Claremont Village, an area of cute shops and galleries, one block from Pomona College. We will have the private Cottage Room and will be able to place personal orders that day from a selected menu. Following a brief business meeting, lunch, and our speaker’s presentation, we will have an hour to socialize while enjoying a variety of desserts and coffee and tea. Walter’s is a bistro known for its California and French fusion style with specialties from around the world.

Walter's Restaurant (Click for Map)is located at 308 North Yale Avenue, between Bonita and 4th St., one block east of Indian Hill Blvd. Claremont Village can be reached from the 10 or 210 freeways, via Indian Hill Blvd. exits. Walters is four blocks from the Claremont Depot. For those interested in coming by train, Metrolink has a weekend promotional, the Friends and Family 4-Pack. For $29, it covers four people traveling together all day. There is a train out of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles at 10:40 am that arrives in Claremont at 11:34 am. There is a return train at 4:13 pm that arrives at Union Station at 5:15 pm.