A visit is now committed for Hogmanay through January 6. We hope to clear the way for future work, process some of the reclaimed Elanvow wood to prepare it for import, work on the Arrochar Heritage site, and continue to contemplate a heritage center location ... as well as to visit our good friends!
Considering a visit for Hogmanay and processing of wood recovered from the island.
We will begin preparing the application for Scheduled Monument Consent for initial work on Inveruglas Isle. This will allow the teams to move quickly to meet any schedule requirements if there is a decision to proceed.
We would still love to do some preservation work on Inveruglas isle and will continue to work with HES and John Duncan to see what might be possible. Chris Barrowman of HES has provided their recommendations for tree work and we will begin working on the SMC applications in anticipation of future work.
On-going discussions about potential work at Inveruglas and the Arrochar Heritage site has been restored as-is. Howard Page and his team are working to identify a new content-management package to make a new incarnation of the site more maintainable long term. There are also on-going discussions about how to triage and manage Macfarlane heritage submissions from around the world.
Just back from Thailand and Cambodia. The importance of historical preservation is even clearer in our minds as well as the importance of our natural heritage. No plans for Elanvow or Inveruglas so far this summer.
Apologies. We missed the March update yesterday in favor of Easter festivities. No new activity on preserving the island strongholds but there is local activity to preserve a local heritage web site. We may need volunteers to help. More to follow on that!
No news on potential work on Inveruglas. We would be providing arms and legs to John Duncan, at best, since we have a strong working relationship with Historic Environment Scotland and have a proven team to do the work. More as that develops.
Over the Holidays, we began to consider next projects. There is still some remaining tree and site maintenance work to be done at Elanvow. and Inveruglas has much work that needs to be done. We will touch base with John Duncan on the latter. We heard last year that HES had proposed some works there and we would be happy to help.
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Author(s)Katherine McFarlin, Archives
December 2024
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