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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
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Uig Museum & the Tearoom open Monday to Saturday, 12-5pm.
6 Aug 10 Uig Gardens Open Day. Gardens in Carishader, Valtos and Mangersta. 11am-5pm; call at 2 Carishader for map and to pay £5 per carload.
11-14 Aug 10 Historiography of St Kilda, a 4-day conference to mark the 80th anniversary of the evacuation. Lionaclete School, Benbecula. IBT
13 Aug 10 Open Air Service at Baile na Cille, 7pm (CoS)
20 Aug 10 Buffet/Ceilidh Night at Uig Community Centre. 7.30pm. All welcome.
20 Aug 10 Spiorodalach nam Bard: The Poetry of Dughall Bochanan. A talk by Prof Donald Macleod. Bernera Community Centre, time tbc.
29 Aug 10 Latha Hiort
6 Aug 10 Uig Gardens Open Day. Gardens in Carishader, Valtos and Mangersta. 11am-5pm; call at 2 Carishader for map and to pay £5 per carload.
11-14 Aug 10 Historiography of St Kilda, a 4-day conference to mark the 80th anniversary of the evacuation. Lionaclete School, Benbecula. IBT
13 Aug 10 Open Air Service at Baile na Cille, 7pm (CoS)
20 Aug 10 Buffet/Ceilidh Night at Uig Community Centre. 7.30pm. All welcome.
20 Aug 10 Spiorodalach nam Bard: The Poetry of Dughall Bochanan. A talk by Prof Donald Macleod. Bernera Community Centre, time tbc.
29 Aug 10 Latha Hiort
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My Father was known as ‘Macmod’ in Clibh and my grandfather Thoramod (Norman) MacKay. Would I be related to either folk in the ‘Sports Day in Clibh picture? I am half minded (being 53 yrs) to wonder if the wee lad was me on holiday there at about that age….?