Great news! We have been awarded a £5,000 Welsh Heritage Lottery Fund grant to publish a "print-on-demand" book of "The Children of Craig-y-nos".
Just when I think that all my research is complete yet another email pops into my mailbox offering a social history gem complete with photographs – this time from the son of one of the first female doctors who worked at Craig-y-nos in the late 1920s, early 1930's.
It is not clear how he heard about the project : was it on the medical grapevine or did he simply "google" Craig-y-nos?
Have just had a short holiday and am back from the Red Sea having visited the "hidden city" of Petra in Jordan.
Now catching up on all my emails. Dr Carole Reeves has had a paper accepted for an international conference on Oral History this July. She will be speaking about the " Children of Craig-y-nos" project.
Will we have the book ready for the opening of the next exhibition in Swansea museum in July?
I am well on with the first draft but now that I am going through all the research notes I find that there is over 200,000 words -and that is just the interviews alone.
And that is before Dr Reeves medical and historical contribution.
So…July may be a bit on the optimistic side.
I hear the Heritage Lottery Fund have taken up references so that looks promising.
Put up a podcast of a childrens story- a memory of life in a remote TB sanatorium in Wales, how one child , Douglas, was forcefed cabbage until he vomited.
That child is now a successful Swansea accountant so I sent him a link to the blog and got an email back saying he was on holiday in Antartica.
'Tis a shrinking world we live in…
Podcast available at:
www.Youtube.com/childrenofcraigynos
or from my blog:
www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com
Just returned from Wales having deposited the "Children of Craig-y-nos" exhibition with Swansea museum.
They will store it until the summer when it will be exhibited there for two months – July and August.
Saw the space today and was a bit taken aback at the size. It is enormous!
Normally this is the Resource room for school projects but they have agreed to let us have it for the summer months as an exhibition venue.
The project is becoming more community based in Wales- essential since I am based in Scotland- and a small group is emerging who are prepared to help.
When we saw the size of the exhibition space this morning we agreed that some kind of installation is required to go with the photos.
Have to discuss several proposals with the curator.
