Description
Traditional Angus stories, retold by a local storyteller
"Erin Farley sweeps up some general categories of tales such as Wells and Saints, Pictish Stones and Souterrains, and Hidden Treasures. There is a strong reminder here that a continuous interaction between environment and history provides a cultural underlay that goes on shaping people’s understanding of locality and their place in it."
Erin Farley has been practicing traditional storytelling for the past decade. She is a member of the Blether Taygether storytelling group in Dundee, and is a committee member and regular performer at Orkney Storytelling Festival. She is the Local History Library & Information Officer for Dundee Libraries, so telling the stories of the local area is part of her daily life. She often uses traditional local stories as a way into thinking about the past with community groups of all ages. She recently completed a PhD on poetry and song traditions in Angus and Dundee.