APPLEDORE IS A small village on the North Devon coast, up until now known for its beautiful estuary location, for its boat- and ship-building heritage, and for fishing. Over the past ten years, however, it has been gaining another reputation: its annual Visual Arts Festival. It was, surprisingly, the first annual Visual Arts Festival in the country, and it started with a bang, literally, when the Royal Marines gamely joined in the first art event. A colourfully decorated rope across the wide estuary linked
Appledore with its opposite neighbour, Instow, and was joined in the middle by the Marines, ...
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