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Summer Corncrakes

By Mary

Uist Strands Stitchers
Image provided by Smartify

This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2023 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the stitchers of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands.

Join Màiri in conversation with the Uist Strand stitchers as she talks through the inspiration behind her journey stone and memories of corncrakes in the summer.

Every summer...where my parents stayed at the time there was always corncrakes... just the noise of it!

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