Newspaper article in the Oban Times `Community News – Tiree` by Janet MacIntosh.
Items discussed at a Community Council meeting, Parish Church social, Baptist Church sale of work, Christmas fayre, the severe weather and disappointment that funding for the new mart has been turned down again.
Letter from donor and photocopied information re ministers James, Duncan and Dugald Macfarlane.
Extracts from `History of Baptists in Scotland`, 1926, and `Island Harvest` by Donald Meek re John, Duncan, James, Robert and their father William MacFarlane.
Mabel Kennedy talks to Dr John Holliday in October 1998 about the interior decoration of the house at Main Road Farm in Balephuil where she lived until she went to work in service in Glasgow in 1926.
The floors of the house were made of concrete although, at that time, some must still have been beaten earth and clay. Earthen floors were considered warmer for children’s feet than concrete or flagstones and were kept clean by a sprinkling of shell sand every day except Sunday.
The walls inside were painted twice a year with whitewash made from seashells. The difficulty and expense of obtaining household goods on a remote Hebridean island encouraged the resourcefulness of the local people who would make do with the materials to hand.