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…like it understood, find any of this moving. What she finds it is necessary. This is the Coastal Lights Oral History Project, and for three years it has been doing two things at once, against two different…
Science · Measurement
…bounces a signal off the water every second and sends a one-minute average to the National Coastal Survey in Corran. The Survey asked the rota to keep reading the staff anyway, as a check on the radar, and to…
Science · Biodiversity
…1981 by Cora Fenwick, the repository’s first curator, from a croft at Brannock on the north coast, where a woman named Elspeth Rowe, then 77, grew a small, hard, purplish onion that her family had been saving…
Politics · Government
…looks after 1,900 public buildings, 640 bridges on the national road network, 38 dams, the coastal flood barriers at Halbridge and Port Ellery, and the trunk mains that carry water from the upland reservoirs…
Ideas · Language
…shop on the harbor in Port Ellery, between a lighthouse-shaped bottle opener and a set of coasters printed with sailors’ knots. It is titled “Beautiful Words With No English Equivalent,” and it offers 12 of…