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Conversations in the Dining Room |
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Emma Knytleigh: In an attempt to record the current history of Stoney Grove a number of interviews and conversations will be recorded with some of the people who have connections with the estate. Accordingly the Dining Room has been supplied with hidden microphones and recording equipment to allow the process to take place in as natural a setting as possible. Participants are, of course, aware that conversations are being recorded. Transcript: Conversation between Ann Simmons and Chester Vyse, EK Sound of door opening. Chester: God, she's incredible. I feel like I've been struck by lightning...Tinsley is such an idiot.
(pause) Ann: Coming...What have you decided about this room? This had to have been the dining room, right? Chester: Yes, you're quite right. It's one of the biggest rooms in the house, and it's composition is Corinthian. You know, that's the highest order; the most elaborate, of the original Classical orders. It was designed to impress people. In the eighteenth century, a lot of social display went into dining, and the room was as important as the place settings, varieties of food, that sort of thing. Ann: Plus the entablature, from the Temple of Vesta. Even when there weren't guests here, the room was a family place, watched over by the goddess of the hearth. Chester: It seems that goddesses are all around me here. Ann: Hmm. Weren't you going to show me something you found across the hall? Chester: Right. |
