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White Settlers / Settling Down - 2nd August 2010

Posted by Barry Shelby on Monday, August 2, 2010, In : Crofting 

I meant to say in that earlier blog that our Nice New Neighbour(s) [NNN] are  incomers just as we are. They’ve been on Lewis longer; presumably are a bit wiser.

In some instances, incomers onto the island are called “white settlers”. I have never been certain whether this is a reference to many who arrive with grey hair or whether it is because they behave like colonialists. Or both? Whatever the case, incomers are forever incomers in the eyes of a Lewisian, Leohasach.

I heard from...


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Moving backwards in front - 5th Nov 2009

Posted by John McKenna on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, In : Crofting 
.  .  .  When I'm in the middle of a dream, stay in bed and float upstream . . .

I was sitting by the peat fire recently when I heard some news of February Burns. Some of you may remember him.

peat fire


He was the one mixed up in that strange but appealing scheme to “fight fur with fur” back in the late 1980s. Homeless people in the East Village and Lower East Side of NYC were paid to catch rats. Then Burns and some cohorts sewed the pelts into odd bits of garments. Gloves were the least o...

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 Colin Macleod - Local Lad + Landscapes:

Again in the music-videologue-of-Lewis-vein: this one features the rather frightfully handsome lad, Colin Macleod. Pal of Dotjr, apparently. New CD (on Geffen) due out soon.

 

 

About Me


Barry Shelby Barry Shelby, American-gone-native-Scotsperson, Journalist , Photographer, Author and....Crofter located now at Earshader on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Barry, based for years in Glasgow, is now with his wife Elizabeth on the Islands off the North-West Coast of Scotland.

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Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas,  also Isle of Lewis) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides (an archipelago) of Scotland. The total area of Lewis is 683 square miles (1,770 km2).

Lewis is, in general, the lower lying part of Lewis and Harris, with the other part, Harris, being more mountainous. The flatter, more fertile land means Lewis contains the only town, Stornoway and three-quarters of the population of the Western Isles. Beyond human habitation, the island's diverse habitats are home to an assortment of flora and fauna, such as the golden eagle, red deer and seals and are recognised in a number of conservation areas.

Lewis is of Presbyterian tradition with a rich history, having once been part of the Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles. Today, life is very different to elsewhere in Scotland with Sabbath observance, the Gaelic language and peat cutting retaining more importance than elsewhere. Lewis has a rich cultural heritage as can be seen from its myths and legends as well as the local literary and musical traditions.

 

(source Wikipedia)

So where is Earshader?

 

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