Sgeir
Well-Known Member
Those who have sailed to Canna, or have an interest in Gaelic and Hebridean culture, will be sad to learn of the death of Margaret Fay Shaw Campbell, age 101. The widow of the late John Lorne Campbell, she lived in the big house overlooking the anchorage.
An obituary by Lorn MacIntyre was published by the Herald at <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/29858.html>http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/29858.html</A>.
I never met Mrs Campbell, but her books, photographs and films ensured that she still received a steady stream of visitors, scholars, admirers, journalists, and documentary makers, certainly up to the summer of this year.
In recent times, I was told that her eyesight had deteriorated to the extent that she never switched off the light in her bedroom. On jet black nights in a southeast gale, her room provided one of the few lights on Canna for sailors to check against the sighting compass. The readings for "Mrs Campbell's" probably appear in many west coast log books.
She and her husband have left a legacy of song, poetry and documentation of an island culture and way of life that has all but disappeared. Her passing is very sad, but she had an amazing and full life.
<hr width=100% size=1>Just another irrelevant footnote.
An obituary by Lorn MacIntyre was published by the Herald at <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/29858.html>http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/29858.html</A>.
I never met Mrs Campbell, but her books, photographs and films ensured that she still received a steady stream of visitors, scholars, admirers, journalists, and documentary makers, certainly up to the summer of this year.
In recent times, I was told that her eyesight had deteriorated to the extent that she never switched off the light in her bedroom. On jet black nights in a southeast gale, her room provided one of the few lights on Canna for sailors to check against the sighting compass. The readings for "Mrs Campbell's" probably appear in many west coast log books.
She and her husband have left a legacy of song, poetry and documentation of an island culture and way of life that has all but disappeared. Her passing is very sad, but she had an amazing and full life.
<hr width=100% size=1>Just another irrelevant footnote.