{"id":8,"date":"2017-09-20T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:46:52","slug":"a-grand-day-out-in-stranraer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/2017\/09\/20\/a-grand-day-out-in-stranraer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grand Day Out in Stranraer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recently I was in Stranraer to meet up with members of the Stranraer and District Local History Trust to hand over hot-off-the-press copies of our first Regional Flashback, Stranraer and District Lives: Voices in Trust.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christine and Eric Wilson had very kindly brought together a number of colleagues from the Trust and laid on a celebratory feast at their home.\u00a0 This included the delicious local tattie scones, which are coated in oatmeal.\u00a0\u00a0We also\u00a0toasted the book, and our collaboration, with a celebratory glass of sherry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/dg-study\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/dg-study\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit.jpg\" alt=\"Donnie Nelson, Nancy McLucas, Christine Wilson, Eric Wilson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/files\/2017\/09\/Stranraer-2BFB-2Bhandover_edit-600x340.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Left to right \u2013 Donnie Nelson, Nancy McLucas, Christine Wilson, Eric Wilson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Nancy, who had carried out most of the fieldwork recordings included in the Flashback, recounted some of the many interesting tales she had heard off-microphone during her time collecting, and before long everyone was sharing their own strange and wonderful Stranraer anecdotes.\u00a0 This left us contemplating the possibility of a complementary volume, but only for a short while as many of the stories were of a criminal nature, including an abandoned attempt at grave-robbing.<\/p>\n<p>This first Regional Flashbackfrom our Dumfries and Galloway Study will be joined by others and we are already looking forward to the next volume which is well underway.\u00a0 This\u00a0will showcase the recordings made by one of our volunteer fieldworkers, Julia Muir-Watt.\u00a0\u00a0Julia has conducted 28 interviews of folk from Whithorn and the surrounding area. These interviews will be brought together in a Regional Flashback which touches on the themes of time, money, town and country in which the people of Whithorn and nearby give vivid accounts of the changes in a rural town in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Milligan,<br \/>\nSeptember 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was in Stranraer to meet up with members of the Stranraer and District Local History Trust to hand over hot-off-the-press copies of our first Regional Flashback, Stranraer and District Lives: Voices in Trust.\u00a0 Christine and Eric Wilson had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/2017\/09\/20\/a-grand-day-out-in-stranraer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/regional-ethnology-scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}