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...tiny Hampton (pop. 800), stiff-backed Thomas Estey Ryder, a retired World War I colonel, tramped up & down the elm-lined main street on a one-man job survey. Prospects for Hampton's returning veterans, he discovered, were dim. But chatting with townfolk, he got an idea...
...announce it, he called a meeting in Hampton's grey agricultural hall. Farmers drove in from miles around. Villagers turned out by the score. Colonel Ryder told them: Hampton should erect a factory to turn out "rounds and squares" (chair rungs, desk legs) from nearby stands of spruce, cedar, pine and birch. The factory would serve as a memorial to 18 Hamptonians who had died in World War II. It would provide jobs for about 50 of Hampton's 187 overseas veterans...
...Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose somber fantasies went almost unnoticed until after he died in 1917, once remarked that "The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...Ryder made a last desperate snatch at life by falling in love with Lady Julia; lawyers coldly set in motion the legal wheels of divorce that would enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came...
...priest was proved right is the climax to Brideshead Revisited, in which the ageless theme of rebirth through death is used melodramatically by Author Waugh to resurrect the remnants of the tottering family and leave Artist Ryder sadder, wiser, still unmarried to Lady Julia-and a religious man. Soon after, Ryder, now a soldier, watched troops being billeted at Brideshead...