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Teignmouth Midsummer Folk Festival
Location: Devon
To raise awareness of Teignmouth’s maritime heritage through research which will be presented at the Teignmouth Folk Festival in a variety of interpretative ways.
The project is linked to SeaBritain 2005, a yearlong festival of events exploring maritime heritage organised by the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory and visitBritain Local people will be directly involved in doing the research and creating a massed dance.
Local fisherman and the river pilot will give talks, run guided walks and produce a trail leaflet. They shall also record their memories and family history, undertake storytelling workshops, produce and perform a play. Other outputs will be concerts and an exhibition which will later be housed in the local museum.
Topics such as;- fisher families who moved to Newfoundland
- the local ship building industry
- historic links with granite quarrying on Dartmoor
- the sacking of the town in 1690
- the Viking invasions of 1001 BC
are just a few of the ones to be investigated.
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Heritage Lottery Fund: £17903
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