Rod and I stopped there and lounged among the flowers, in a dry westerly wind, talking about the downland poet Edward Thomas, the downland painter Eric Ravilious, and why I should never have slept in Chanctonbury Ring.
Other famous people who hail from Augusta include actress Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen, who played Prissy in "Gone With the Wind, " actor Laurence Fishburne, soprano Jessye Norman and Frank Yerby, the famous poet and author.