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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationMNH thanks Heritage Partner in CregneashSince the 1930s, Manx National Heritage has worked carefully to ensure that the national folk museum at Cregneash retains its true traditions and appearance while still ensuring the continuance of a living village. This means that in addition to preserving artefacts and buildings, Manx National Heritage keeps alive traditional skills, such as thatching. Manx National Heritage is now responsible for the upkeep of most of the surviving thatched buildings on the Isle of Man. Vital to this task is a supply of straw which has been harvested in the traditional way. Modern combine harvesters break the straw, making it useless for thatching purposes, but one farmer still uses the methods of a hundred years ago, and his support has been crucial to Manx National Heritage for many years. Andrew Moores family have farmed at Balladoole, just outside Castletown, for generations and he still uses a traditional reaper-binder to harvest straw.Families wanted for tiny islandAn island which has seen drastic action to protect its rare mice and birds is now trying to end a decline in its human population.The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) hopes to attract two new families to Canna in the Hebrides. The trust, which owns the most westerly of the Small Isles, said it has 15 inhabitants left. In an effort to reverse the decline, NTS is offering two of its properties for rent. Alex Lindsay, NTS director for the Highlands and Islands, said applicants should be eager to play an active role in the community. .
Time TeamTime Team, the award winning television programme has just completed a remarkably successful visit to the Island to record an episode for their next series, which will be broadcast on Channel 4 early next year. The programme centred upon the investigation of an early medieval chapel, or keeill, a type of site for which the Island is well known. Excavation at the Mount Murray Country Club revealed not only the site of the chapel itself but also the enclosure in which it stood. A number of finds were made, including a small slab of stone bearing an incised inscription. The investigation followed a careful reconnaissance of a number of sites on the Island, after Time Team had contacted Manx National Heritage earlier this year. Andrew Johnson, Field Archaeologist for Manx National Heritage said: Several months ago we considered a number of sites, based on suggestions from the public and our own research priorities.For the week of 10.1110.17The NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL returns to FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh) for its annual stand of repertory performances this week. The two-show cycle--ROMEO & JULIET (Oct. 12 and 14) and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Oct. 13 and 15)--also marks a regional return for actor Todd Scofield, whose enigmatic work with Chapel Hill's Somnambulist Project in the 1990s predated his critically praised performances with the Folger Theater and other companies in the Washington, D.C., area. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster by calling 834-4000. --Byron Woods . |
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