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07 May 04 - 02:55 PM (#1180559) Subject: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Megan L the 22nd Orkney Folk Festival takes place from the 27th to the 30th May. line up and details |
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08 May 04 - 06:21 AM (#1180971) Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Megan L 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 |
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09 May 04 - 07:21 PM (#1181866) Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Willie-O Wow. Does that ever look fun. Someday. Willie-O in the woods of Canada |
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10 May 04 - 01:34 PM (#1182408) Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Don Firth 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). |
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10 May 04 - 01:49 PM (#1182411) Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Megan L 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. |
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11 May 04 - 01:26 PM (#1183009) Subject: RE: 22nd Orkney Folk Festival From: Megan L its a small world |