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Open Country: Memories of the Black Isle

Memories of the Black Isle

24/01/2013

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Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle where residents are collecting landscape memories.

Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands to hear how residents are collecting memories of the landscape, before they are forgotten forever.

Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle to hear how residents are collecting memories of the landscape, before they are forgotten forever. The Killearnan Memories Group meets to share their knowledge of this part of the Eastern Highlands in order to preserve it for future generations. Members of the group have grown up on the Black Isle and have memories and stories about the physical landscape which they are using to create a written archive. This movement has been inspired by a project run by Cait McCullagh from Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH), in which Black Isle residents gathered together to remember buildings, sites and other aspects of their heritage, using old maps and photographs as inspiration.
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