{"id":2980,"date":"2010-09-27T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2018-08-05T21:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T01:54:56","slug":"tuesday-september-28-2010-stromness-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Monday, September 27, 2010 \u2014 Stromness, Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Strom\u00adness is a pleas\u00ading lit\u00adtle har\u00adbour with many grey stone build\u00ading climb\u00ading a steep hill. Smack in the mid\u00addle, how\u00adev\u00ader, is a hideous glass box, an exam\u00adple of just the kind of esthet\u00adic crime I com\u00adplained about in the last post. The main com\u00admer\u00adcial street is a nar\u00adrow , wind\u00ading lane, paved with flag\u00adstones, and hemmed in by most\u00adly eigh\u00adteenth and nine\u00adteenth cen\u00adtu\u00adry hous\u00ades. Pedes\u00adtri\u00adans share it, anar\u00adchi\u00adcal\u00adly, with auto\u00admo\u00adbiles. Most parts only have room for a car going in one direc\u00adtion, but there are occa\u00adsion\u00adal wider spots where oncom\u00ading traf\u00adfic can nego\u00adti\u00adate precedence.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Strom\u00adness Muse\u00adum con\u00adtains an amaz\u00ading dis\u00adplay of Cana\u00addi\u00adan arti\u00adfacts, includ\u00ading per\u00adson\u00adal poses\u00adsions of the explor\u00ader John Rae (his bead\u00aded tobac\u00adco pouch alone would fetch a for\u00adtune among Cana\u00addi\u00adan col\u00adlec\u00adtors), and numer\u00adous arti\u00adfacts of the fur trade. It is intel\u00adli\u00adgent\u00adly and info\u00adma\u00adtive\u00adly dis\u00adplayed. I thumbed through some of their archival doc\u00adu\u00adments. Each is like a phone\u00adbook on any Cree or Metis com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty in Cana\u00adda, where Orca\u00addi\u00adan names like Flett, Bal\u00aden\u00addine, Drev\u00ader, Lin\u00adklater or Isbis\u00adter are com\u00admon. There\u2019s a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly mov\u00ading dis\u00adplay on the life of a boy born to an Orkney\u00adman and an Innu\u00adit moth\u00ader on the Unga\u00adva Penin\u00adsu\u00adla of north\u00adern Que\u00adbec, who was sent to Orkney for gram\u00admar school. He was appar\u00adent\u00adly a very pop\u00adu\u00adlar boy in Orkney, but he returned to Cana\u00adda upon grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading, and fin\u00adished his life in the Arctic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Strom\u00adness is a pleas\u00ading lit\u00adtle har\u00adbour with many grey stone build\u00ading climb\u00ading a steep hill. Smack in the mid\u00addle, how\u00adev\u00ader, is a hideous glass box, an exam\u00adple of just the kind of esthet\u00adic crime I com\u00adplained about in the last \u2026<\/p>\n

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