Welcome to Betty who has/have joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** You will have seen Margaret Singleton's post on FreeCen project for Glasgow earlier in the week, and one subscriber has queried it's relevance. As Margaret asked first before posting, my reasoning was that while it was "out of area" many of the families in Buteshire did migrate to other parts via Glasgow, so in that respect was 'on topic'. Margaret also advised me ... "I've just returned from 2 weeks holiday in Arran where I visited the Heritage museum." "I don't know if you know of the The Arran High School Project or not. The pupils at the high school have interviewed the inhabitants of the island and a book has been published containing a transcript of their interviews. The interviews took place between 1982 and 1995 but it was only published last year. It includes many photographs of people past and present e.g. photograph of Harvesting at Kilpatrick 1885, some old school photographs in the early 1900s, excerpts from school log books, excerpts from diaries, etc. At 242 pages A4 size it is not cheap at £14.95 but compared to other books on Arran I have seen I think it is good value and very interesting offering an insight into life on Arran in the past. I had a word with Grace Small when I was there and asked if it could be bought mail order. She said that it was only available from the museum, that she had posted one to Australia and it had cost about £5 for the postage and she was sure that arrangements could be made if people were interested." Thanks for that information Margaret - here's the Heritage Museum Contact Information (Correct as of 20 April 2003) Telephone 44+ (0) 1770 302636 Postal address Rosaburn, Brodick, Isle of Arran, KA27 8DP Electronic mail General Information: info@arranmuseum.co.uk ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown12@optonline.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.