European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1b the stars and stripes saturday. October 12, 1985 seeking to change the dirty Book image of . Lawrence by Larry Thorson associated press d devotees of . Lawrence who wish lady chapter a s Lover were not his mos famous Book plunged his Hometown into Athree week Celebration of the Centenary of his birth. But the Celebration was not universally popular. Filly live years after he died 25 years alter British courts finally permitted lady chatterly s Lover to be published with All the words he wrote Lawrence is regarded As a modern master by the literary world. A plaque honouring him is to be erected in poets Corner in Westminster Abbey later this year. Processors have come from As far away As South Korea to speak at a symposium on Lawrence. But in his Hometown of Eastwood England some still think of him Only As a writer of dirty  and some families believe they were maligned in his novels most of which Are set in the towns and rolling wooded Countryside of his native Nottinghamshire. A Lawrence Centenary fair commemorated the writer s birth on sept. 11, 1885. Earlier in the month there was a Parade with wildly imaginative and humorous floats with themes from lady chatterly and other books including the plumed Serpent and the Rainbow. But except for two the floats were made by a professional entertainment company and the locals mostly watched uninvolved. Held at a picnic ground beside Tho abandoned Coal mine where Lawrence s father once worked the fair Drew about 2,000 people a Good crowd from Eastwood s 11,000 population. But some were there because i was the Only fun to be had and they did t Admire the author. What do i think of . Lawrence he wrote dirty books did t he said a Burly truck Driver with tattooed forearms. It s like the beatles and Liverpool they made it and left. Lawrence made it and left  Lawr no wat a Ali tonary who extolled natural sensuality and thought Modem life was robbing people of the ability to experience the Quality of life. He left Nottinghamshire in his 20s and lived almost entirely abroad in Italy. Australia Mexico new Mexico and France where he died of tuberculosis in 1930. But his letters show he was eager or gossip from Home the fodder of stories he was writing. Organizers of the festival say the older generation Here still looks askance at Lawrence. Though the town s last Coal mine closed a month ago there is a feeling that Lawrence was t a Man because he had t worked in the mines. I think in 20 years Lawrence will still be controversial said Enid Goodband who has struggled for local recognition for the novelist who was a local Miner s son. She became interested in Lawrence during the 1959 60 obscenity trial and worked for 16 years before the town government agreed to make a museum of the tiny four room House where David Herbert Bert to his British author . Lowrane family Lawrence was born. Goodband a vibrant woman in her 60s who was brought up in one of the houses where the lawrences lived became curator of the museum. She is proud that 54,000 people from 84 countries have seen the turn of the Century furnishings which she and other Eastwood women have collected for the House. The festival Parade Goodband said was something i dreamed of for More than 20  she thought it marked a change in local altitudes but admitted there was still resistance to Lawrence. It s the older generation mostly. They Don t understand  she said. They judge him on one Book Taoy Chait Erfy and it s passed Down from generation to generation. But it s going now As the older generation Dies and the new influx comes in they be studied him in  recently visitors to the museum were thrilled to meet Lawrence s Niece Margaret Needham whom he Callad Peggy and described As having red Gold hair in dangling curl rags in a letter he wrote to a Friend in 1919. , now 76 and White haired recalled the Day Lawrence wrote that letter. It was her 10lh birthday and he took her Tor a Winter walk astounding her by knowing which animals and Birds had made which tracks in the Snow. Later Lawrence helped her decide what to study and wrote a speech for her debate class. He was an Uncle we loved very much she said. Yes she had read lady chatter a s Lover. She read it one Good Friday All at once when her parents were out. I Don t think that was his Best Book and it annoys me when people say that that people Only judge him for that she said. They talk about him Only writing dirty books. 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