As I looked at the vision, I heard a chamber orchestra playing a concerto with the melody voiced by the oboe in the style of the Baroque.

The Chicago skyline imposed over Castle Howard in the UK, the filming location for Brideshead Revisited by Granada Television in 1981.

Castle Howard is reflected in the water.

In Brideshead Revisited, the main character, Charles, finds himself unexpectedly at Brideshead Castle, where he spent much of his youth with his friend Lord Sebastian Flyte twenty years earlier.

Charles tells his story with Sebastian as a flashback as his memories overtake his mind.

Much like Charles, I found myself in Boystown in Chicago, unexpectedly twenty years after I first visited it with my friend Alex. My memoir, Boystown Revisited, is told in a flashback as the location tugged my memories. That is the basis for my memoir.

Brideshead Revisited themes played on the organ.

Castle Howard’s organ NPOR | D03076

Enjoy this aero-footage of Castle Howard, also known as, in film, Brideshead.