Next year will be the 600th anniversary of the first of the family letters which have made the name Paston famous, to mark which Yale University in the USA are to hold a major exhibition. Here at home in the UK the Paston Heritage Society and the UEA with other organisations are working on the “Footprints Project” to promote access to the letters and link them to 10 Norfolk towns and villages where the family lived or had associations with, including of course our village.
On November 10th we welcomed a party from Yale and from Norwich Castle Museum and the UEA.. We were amazed and delighted by the depth of knowledge displayed by the Yale academics and the amount of of interest there clearly is in the USA