Alf Young
The generosity of spirit of First Nation Canadians, punished for speaking their language, is deeply moving
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Sunday 11 August 1996
To Connel Village Store to get the papers. The Store is owned by Mel and Rosie Stevenson. Rosie has an honours degree in Latin and Greek. She’s learned a bit of Gaelic forbye. In other tongues she is polyglot. For recreation she plays the music of the Gael on the fiddle, and classical music on the violin. Of an evening someone else teaches the violin and viola in the Church Hall. Passing down Connel village street is like being at the Edinburgh Festival, without the trauma of being in Edinburgh. This is what we call civilisation. Where else can you buy a paper and half a dozen eggs in Latin, Greek, Gaelic or any language of your choice? Aye and from a glorious woman who’s rehearsing first violin for the slow movement of Mendelson’s violin concerto in her lovely head. Eat yer heart out, Jenners of Princes Street!
From SR November 1996
Alf Young
As a girl she had been schooled by nuns. They beat her repeatedly if she spoke in her own language.
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