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Calanais Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

Divine Liturgy

Fr. Seraphim Aldea, St. Oran's Chapel, Isle of Iona, Scotland

Interspersed are photos of my own Brigid Dollies, beds, and crosses.

On September 7th 1969 the Scottish naturalist and author Gavin Maxwell passed away.

Maxwell was educated at Stowe School and the University of Oxford, then became a freelance journalist, though ornithology remained his special interest. He served with the Scots Guard in World War II.

In 1945 he bought the island of Soay and described in Harpoon at a Venture he had an unsuccessful attempt to establish a shark fishery there.

Two of his most popular books were the best-selling Ring of Bright Water and the sequel The Rocks Remain about his life with two pet otters in his seaboard cottage in the west Highlands

Maxwell’s prolonged stay in Sicily resulted in two books, God Protect Me from My Friends , about the bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and The Pains of Death, on the poverty-stricken lives of the islanders. A Reed Shaken by the Wind is an account of his travels among the marsh dwellers of southern Iraq.