clipped from: www.sfgate.com David Armstrong, Special to The Chronicle
Sunday, May 11, 2008
(05-11) 04:00 PDT Dorchester, England -- The unwavering gaze of Thomas Hardy looks out from a hilltop, affording the Victorian writer - or, rather, a statue of him - a sweeping view of the town he immortalized as Casterbridge and the rustic county he called Wessex.
It is a beautiful place to behold.