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Eden Court, in Inverness, has announced plans to stage a three-month festival in its grounds which is expected to provide employment to around 100 staff and performers between July and September.
Artist David Behrens at Lady s Tower on Ruby Bay, near Elie, one of the locations set to feature in the East Neuk Festival.
Live music, DJ sets and food and drink are expected to be on offer as part of Under Canvas, which was first staged at the venue in 2018 and will again be staged in collaboration with the traditional arts group Fèis Rois.
Organisers of the East Neuk Festival in Fife are planning to stage “al fresco” shows as part of its programme over the first weekend in July.
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Reflections from Ross-shire: A dip into the Ross-shire Journal old files from 100, 50 and 25 years ago By Hector MacKenzie
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Updated: 14:59, 14 March 2021
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From the newspaper of March 11, 1921
A letter on farm servantsâ wages drew attention to the fact that âwhile the very general custom in Ross-shire is to pay farm servants on the 28th day of each month, some of us are considerably inconvenienced through employers allowing the date to pass, in some cases for days , in a few instances even for weeksâ.
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LINVILLE — Throughout the history of Avery County, there has been a handful of influential individuals who have left behind legacies that will benefit generations to come. Among these people
JAMES HOGG defies categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots and English.
Labelled the Ettrick Shepherd, the former Borders farmhand, whose life spanned the 18th and 19th centuries, befriended many of the great writers of his day, including Walter Scott, John Galt and Allan Cunningham.
Even though he was celebrated off and on in his own lifetime, some details of the author’s life remain unclear. Records place his baptism on December 9 1770, but Hogg long believed that he had been born on January 25 1772 Burns Night, no less.
This complicates attempts to commemorate his 250th birthday, unless we embrace his fantastical world view. Fiction mattered to him more than fact. Besides, Hogg’s sestercentennial will inevitably be overshadowed by Scott’s own such celebration on August 15 this year.