WHITHORN: AN ECONOMY OF THE PEOPLE

Whithorn is a small, remote and ancient town in Dumfries and Galloway. Between 2012 and 2013 Julia Muir Watt interviewed twenty-nine people from the community about their life and work, focusing on the interwar years and subsequent disruption - a world now almost entirely gone. Subjects include the Whithorn-born poet and New Yorker writer Alastair Reid, and Andrew McNeillie, whose father's controversial novel Wigtown Ploughman exposed the conditions of farm workers in 1939. Published as part of a wider project exploring the regional ethnology of Scotland.