An interview with Misa Hay from Shetland Wool Adventures
In today’s show, I chat to Alexa Fitzgibbon, an amazingly talented photographer, weaver, designer and anthropologist who first came to Shetland 12 years ago from France to study. She has since moved to Shetland, and now calls it home.
In this episode, we chat about her studies on religion in the North Atlantic area and the relationships between the living and the dead. And as we are approaching Halloween, we hear about some of Shetland’s ghostly tales that she uncovered during her research and the burden of Protestant guilt that lives on in the lives of Shetlanders today. We speak about how the fundamental differences between Protestant and Catholic belief systems have contributed to a ghost society in many northern areas.
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Links that are referred to in the show:
Shetland Wool Adventures website
Buy a copy of the Shetland Wool Adventures Journal
My Shetland Garden blog
Shetland Webcams
Promote Shetland’s shetland.org website and their walking page
A list of community museums and interpretive centres
Shetland’s wild swimmer’s Facebook Group
Wild swimming books: Salt on my Skin and Swimming with Seals
10 favourite books about Shetland, and a few more …
Shetland with Laurie’s guide to the best of Shetland fiction
10 Favourite Shetland Knitting Books
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