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EXHIBITIONS JANUARY - MARCH 1998
Museum nan Eilean, Francis Street, Stornoway Opening Hours until 31 March1998: Tuesday - Friday 1Oam - 5pm Saturday 1Oam - 1pm Telephone 01 851 703773 ext 266
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SNAP SHOTS An exhibition of photographs taken by Donald Macdonald - "Dolly Doctor' - in Lewis during the interwar years. These photographs provide a valuable record of the island at this time. Taken mostly in and around Uig, they illustrate the landscape, the housing and the people of the place and their work, at the peats at the shielings, making tweed.
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ISLAND GOING JOURNEYS IN THE WESTERN ISLES This exhibition, prepared by the School of Scottish Studies, is a record of the visits to the Western Isles made by Robert Atkinson over a thirty year period beginning in 1935. His explorations took him to the most remote and outlying parts of the islands St Kilda, Mingulay, the Flannan Isles, the Shiant Isles, Rona and Sula Sgeir. The exhibition illustrated by Robert Atkinson's excellent camera work, gives a vivid picture of the islands at a time of great change. The experiences and adventures of Atkinson in the islands are related in his book - Island Going, published in 1949. |
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KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT Opening Wednesday 11th February 1998 'Keepers of the Light' is an exhibition prepared by Scotland's Lighthouse Museum and celebrates the end of the manned era of the country's lighthouses. The exhibition looks back at the history of Scotland's lighthouses and the men who served them. It will be accompanied by a display featuring the eight lighthouses of the Western Isles.
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