Aos Dàna - ‘Calum’s Road' - Roger Hutchinson
"A road, 12 feet wide and two tortuously slow miles long, built over 20 years by one man with little more than a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow . . . It starts at Brochel Castle and winds to Arnish, on the north tip of Raasay, where Calum MacLeod lived and worked as a crofter, postman and tender of the Rona lighthouse." This is the story of one amazing road and a whole island history. Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning journalist and author. He has lived in Raasay for eight years, and in Skye for the previous 22. He met Calum in 1979, on an assignment for the West Highland Free Press, for which he’d come to work after leaving London. Other Books by Roger Hutchinson. His books include: ‘Empire Games: The British Invention of Twentieth-Century Sport’, ‘Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore’, ‘The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme’ and ‘A Waxing Moon,’ the Story of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.Date: 13/07/07
Start Time: 4.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Seòmar Chruinneachaidh
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Type: Talks and Literature