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| In the July 2008 edition of Living Orkney |
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- Tom Muir meets Neil Leask, who has taken over from Harry Flett MBE as Custodian at Corrigall Farm Museum. Neil might have been considered the young pretender to the Corrigall crown – or to Harry’s panama hat. But it turns out that he’s following in family footsteps.
- The 2008 Stromness Shopping Week looks to be a bobby dazzler – with the whole community getting stuck in to give us all a week of fire and water, fun and games, history and hamming it up. In the year of the 60th Shopping Week, Living Orkney looks back, and forward.
- What Kim Foden doesn’t know about Orkney probably isn’t worth printing. She talks to JR Scott about cutting her teeth on the hot metal of the Orkney Herald’s printroom, GMB proofreading in her granny’s back kitchen, and the revelation of meeting her First Nation cousins in Canada.
- The Workshop in St Margaret’s Hope is thirty years old. Living Orkney finds the craft co-operative in good heart, and looking forward to many more years of shared effort and reward.
- Lorraine Shearer discovers how intrepid traveller Graeme Smith has helped to keep medical mercy ships afloat on the other side of the world.
- Glass is not the easiest of materials to manipulate, but in artist Joan Holdsworth’s hands, it can take on the moods of Orkney’s weather or landscape, base elements or ethereal colours.
- Some people really are born to dance, and young Jo Davies is one of them. Cheryl Campbell hears about Jo’s achievements, her love of teaching, and her hopes for the future.
- Living Orkney’s youngest correspondent, Rory Auskerry, meets Orkney Craft Guild’s members as they celebrate forty years of traditional skills, from metal-work to needle-work.
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