Easdale Island’s volunteer-supported Folk Museum welcomed Argyll MSP Jenni Minto when she visited last month.
Jenni was invited to call in at the museum after a chance encounter with islander Antonia Newlands.
The MSP posted a photograph of herself outside the museum and went on Social Media to praise its excellent collection.
Easdale is one of the Slate islands that roofed the world. The museum’s key focus is on the quarrying of those slates largely between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Other topics covered include army volunteers, education and public health, to geology, boats and entertainment. There are genealogical records for the Kilbrandon and Kilchattan parish, as well as rent books, Masonic records, and a map of Easdale Island from about 1881.
Volunteers at the centre also run a genealogy service for anyone curious to know if they have a family connection to the island.
The folk museum is now closed for the winter and will reopen in April.
You can find out more about it here: www.easdalemuseum.org
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