WASHINGTON: In a wise and reflective interview, the 82-year-old feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem told Cathy St Germans — the widow of Peregrine Eliot, who died a week before the Port Eliot festival began — that the spirit of her husband lived on in the festival that he created.
It was true. Perry Eliot was an aristocrat of the bohemian order who listed his interest in Who’s Who as “mucking about”. In its 13th year Port Eliot was all about that noble endeavour.



