22nd Orkney Folk Festival

Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Megan L
Date: 11 May 04 - 01:26 PM

its a small world

Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Megan L
Date: 10 May 04 - 01:49 PM

Lol yep Don thats us even the leaves grow on the lee side of the tree before the windward. I am sitting just now looking down over the very harbour your great grandfather would have left from.

My husbands grandmothers sister married a Firth.

Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 May 04 - 01:34 PM

My great-grandfather, Robert Firth, came from Orkney. He signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company, boarded a ship in Stromness sometime around 1850, and sailed around the Horn to Fort Victoria (later, Victoria, British Columbia). Governor Douglas sent him to the nearby San Juan Islands at the north end of Puget Sound to take over the HBC operations there after a fellow named Griffin left. He settled there and raised a family. I'm told that the San Juans reminded him of Orkney—but with lots of trees!!

I've read a lot about Orkney. I can't make the festival, but I would give my eye-teeth to come. Is it true that the wind off the north Atlantic blows so constantly that whenever a native of Orkney goes somewhere else, they tend to lean toward the west?

Don Firth
Seattle, Washington
(The San Juans are a day-trip from here; Orkney is a bit farther).

Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Willie-O
Date: 09 May 04 - 07:21 PM

Wow. Does that ever look fun.

Someday.

Willie-O
in the woods of Canada

Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Megan L
Date: 08 May 04 - 06:21 AM

For once they have got the timing right, I usuall end up down south when it is on but it starts the day i get home this year yipeee

Subject: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival
From: Megan L
Date: 07 May 04 - 02:55 PM

the 22nd Orkney Folk Festival takes place from the 27th to the 30th May. line up and details