#james neish

[mormonbooks]

Stripling Warrior

4/5 STARS

Summary: This collection of comics (3 issues and an Annual) has the worlds first ever Gay Mormon Superhero! In fact, it has a lot of different Queer and Mormon (or Mormon-adjacent) characters, all fighting against injustice.

The main character, Sam Shepherd, gets visited by an Angel soon after marrying his husband Jase. The Angel (Abish from the Book of Mormon) calls him to be The Hand of God and punish sinners. He fights homophobes, misguided missionaries, and Cain himself, alongside his companion, Fe, who also received powers from Abish.

Read at your own risk: This book is has a complex approach to mormonism, as well as deceptions of queer sex (Not explicit but pretty nsfw). I think it's a lot of fun, and is an honest portrayal of queer mormon experiences, with fun fantastical versions of Mormon beliefs (Like a Holy Ghost Force Field).

Overall, I enjoyed it! I've been dying for a Mormon Superhero, and queer mormon superheroes are even better. I would love to see more stories with Sam, Fe, Jase, Shonda, and Riley in the future.

Spoilers and Review Breakdown Under the Cut

1. Well written - 3.5 Stars.

Overall, I think the writing is done well. Some of it is cheesy, and there are a couple of deus ex machina's but it feels like it fits in the genre and with what the comic is trying to do.

2. Fun level - 4.5 Stars

I really enjoyed it! I read the whole thing in one sitting and it was engaging and exciting and it made me laugh.

3. Complex faith - 3.5 Stars

This one is complicated to answer. This definitely feels like media aimed at ex-mormons. Most of the characters are Ex (or "Jack") Mormons, and don't have high regard for the church as an organization. They do believe in Angels and Heavenly Mother (cause that's where their power comes from) but the church officials (like mission presidents) are shown as villains. It's a very irreverent story. And there's a part in the last issue where Heavenly Mother and Heavenly Father are pitted against each other that I didn't really like.

The only exception is Riley, an asexual missionary who states his firm testimony a couple of times. He is one of the heroes, but still firmly believes in the gospel.

I like it because it has characters from all over the spectrum of mormonism (from actively serving a mission to "my parents were mormon but we don't really talk about it" and everything in between), which I think is cool, but it's also definitely got an exmo bias.

4. Homophobia scale - 5 stars

it's so gay!!!!! They have a character for each letter of LGBTA, it's delightful.

It is also NSFW. Nothing explicit (?) but characters are often naked, and the two married couples are shown being intimate quite a few times. I don't normally love stories like that, but for a comic that is about the sacredness of queer intimacy, I understand why it's included.

5. Mormon weird - 5 stars

SOOO much mormon weird. Abish is an angel. The heroes have Liahona Guides. The big villains are Cain and Ammon. It's so much fun.

6. Diversity of characters - 4 stars!

The main character and his husband are both white guys, but Fe is latina, her wife is black (and trans!), and Riley is a POC.

7. Other problematic stuff - 3 stars

I love this comic but I don't think it's for everyone. On top of being irreverent and nsfw, it also incorporates some indigenous american culture into the mythos in ways I'm not sure about. This is going to happen with anything that talks about Nephites and Lamanites, but mostly I don't know why Ammon has a pet Quetzalcoatl. 🤷

But, like I said, I did enjoy it. I think there's a lot of potential in these characters and I would love to see more stories with them

[mysticstronomy]

COULD LIFE EXIST ON TITAN??

Blog#416

Saturday, July 6th, 2024.

Welcome back,

Titan's ocean has a volume 12 times that of all Earth's oceans, but it may be barren of life as we know it.

Titan's underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy moons in the outer solar system, may lack the organic chemistry necessary for life, according to new astrobiological research.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It's famous for being shrouded in a smog of petrochemicals and for possessing a veritable soup of organic molecules — molecules that contain carbon — on its surface. Yet, despite all this fascinating chemistry, Titan is cold. Very cold. It has surface temperatures no warmer than –179 degrees Celsius (–290 degrees Fahrenheit). And in these frigid conditions, chemical reactions for life progress very slowly.

However, deep underground where it's warmer — the exact depth is not certain, but estimates suggest it's on the order of 100 kilometers (62 miles) — a liquid ocean with a volume 12 times that of Earth's oceans combined is thought to exist. Similar oceans inhabit the interiors of Titan's fellow Saturnian moon Enceladus, and Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede.

And where there is liquid water, there could be life. Right? Not so fast, says Catherine Neish of Western University in Ontario, Canada.

A planetary scientist, Neish led an international team that challenged the assumption Titan's ocean, and indeed the oceans of other icy moons, could be habitable.

The researchers worked on the basis that, for Titan's ocean to be habitable, a large supply of organic molecules from the surface must be able to physically reach the ocean in order to facilitate prebiotic chemistry that can produce and feed life.

The route for this organic material to reach the ocean is via comet impacts. Such impacts can melt surface ice, creating a pool of liquid water filled with organic molecules. Because liquid water is denser than ice, it sinks. But, Neish's modeling found that the rate of impacts is not high enough for sufficient organic material to reach Titan's ocean.

For example, Neish's team estimates only about 7,500 kilograms (16,534 pounds) of the simplest amino acid, glycine, reaches Titan's ocean every year. It may sound like a lot, but that's equivalent to the mass of one male African elephant spread across an ocean with a dozen times the volume of Earth's oceans. If you’ll excuse the pun, it's barely a drop in the ocean.

"We assumed that the majority of melt deposits — 65% — would sink all the way to the ocean," Neish told Space.com. "Recent modeling work suggests that this is very likely an overestimate, but even in this most optimistic scenario, there is not enough organics moving into Titan's ocean to support life there."

There may be other possibilities. On Europa, where there are very few organic molecules on the surface, it is postulated that hydrothermal vents may exist on the seafloor where the ocean comes into contact with the moon's rocky core. These vents would spew all kinds of molecules and trigger complex chemical reactions that could support life.

Further evidence for carbon in Europa's ocean has been discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST identified carbon dioxide that has welled up from the ocean onto Europa's surface.

So, could the same happen on Titan, with organic material coming from the moon's interior, rather than its surface?

Neish doesn't rule it out, saying that colleagues such as Kelly Miller at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, are investigating the possibility — but Neish does highlight one particular caveat.

"One concern that has come up is whether the organics sourced from the interior would be useful for life," she said. "We think they may be primarily aromatic compounds, and it is difficult to form biomolecules — such as amino acids — from such compounds."

While we are still some ways away from being able to probe the oceans of these icy moons directly to say for certain whether they contain life or not, Neish's research does raise some promising opportunities for NASA's Dragonfly mission to Titan, on which Neish is a co-investigator.

Originally published on https://www.space.com

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, July 10th, 2024)

"WILL HUMANS EVER GO TO MARS??"

[tzifron]

“Nationalism” by James Neish

[usaac-official]

Gruesome Goose and her crew, 466th Bomb Group.  The crew would go on to complete a 30 mission tour, with the last seven as the lead ship for the 784th Bomb Squadron. The aircraft, with a different crew, would be lost over  Mourmelon-Sur-Marne with all hands on 12 August 1944

Standing Left to Right: Alvin Gerik (N), James Christiansen (784th BS Communications Officer), John H. Woolnough (P), Vincent L. Reed (CP), Donald Neish (NG). Kneeling Left to Right: Max Dudley (FE), Arthur P. Childs (TG), Frank Columbini (G), Gilbert C. Cox (R/O), Frank A. Kowalski (G)

[robkirbycomics]

I drew a 3-page story for this kickass anthology of comics by and for queer men (and btw this def includes non-cis queer men-as it should)! Edited by Canadian academics! So get it! ordering link in bio. Cover art is by James Neish. #queercomics #gaymen #autobiocomics academia #mentalhealthawareness lgbtq 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz9CVI9AVJb/?igshid=o0rr4s2mptqg

[try-not-to-die-comics]

Here are two commissioned drawings I received last year during the Dartmouth Comics Art Festival in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

The first is by Marvel Comics artist Nick Bradshaw, he’s largely known for his X-Men work. The Second is by the more local artist James Neish.

If they’re both there at the upcoming festival I might get an Alex Wilder, and Chase.

[barbucomedie]

Tortoiseshell Snuff Mull from China dated to the 19th Century on display at the McManus Art Gallery and Museum In Dundee

This belonged to Captain James Neish of the ship “Fort William” which voyaged between Britain, India and China from 1825 until at least 1832. His family travelled with him, and one son was even born onboard the ship in Chinese waters.

Photographs taken by myself 2018

[sciencespies]

Massive Arecibo Telescope Collapses in Puerto Rico

https://sciencespies.com/news/massive-arecibo-telescope-collapses-in-puerto-rico/

Massive Arecibo Telescope Collapses in Puerto Rico

On Tuesday, the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, ending its nearly 60 years of operation, reports Dánica Coto for the Associated Press (AP).

The collapse saw a 900-ton equipment platform fall from more than 400 feet up and crash into the northern part of the telescope’s 1,000-foot-wide dish, per the AP. The National Science Foundation (NSF), which manages the facility, announced that no injuries have been reported.

The instrument platform of the 305m telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico fell overnight. No injuries were reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety. NSF will release more details when they are confirmed. pic.twitter.com/Xjbb9hPUgD

— National Science Foundation (@NSF) December 1, 2020

This final death knell for Arecibo’s telescope, which tracked asteroids approaching Earth and searched the heavens for habitable planets, followed other serious damages to the massive observatory and weeks of discussion about its future.

In August, an auxiliary cable slipped from its socket and slashed a 100-foot fissure in the observatory’s reflector dish. Then, in early November, one of the main support cables responsible for holding the equipment platform above the reflector dish snapped, placing the entire structure at significant risk of an “uncontrolled collapse,” reports Bill Chappell for NPR.

These damages prior to the total collapse led to NSF determining that the telescope could not be safely repaired, and an announcement that Arecibo’s telescope would be withdrawn from service and dismantled.

Ángel Vázquez explains the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory @SaveTheAO. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/7VCZNCFsA4

— Wilbert Andrés Ruperto (@ruperto1023) December 1, 2020

When the observatory first closed after August’s damages, about 250 scientists around the world were still using it, according to the AP. For these scientists and for those who spent many years of their lives working with the astronomical instrument in the lush mountains of Puerto Rico, its sudden destruction exacts an emotional toll.

Jonathan Friedman, a researcher who worked at the observatory for 26 years and still lives nearby, tells the AP what he heard at the moment of the collapse: “It sounded like a rumble. I knew exactly what it was. I was screaming. Personally, I was out of control… I don’t have words to express it. It’s a very deep, terrible feeling.”

“It’s such an undignified end,” Catherine Neish, an astrobiologist at Western University in London, Ontario, tells Maria Cramer and Dennis Overbye of the New York Times. “That’s what’s so sad about it.”

The telescope even achieved some level of renown among laypeople following its inclusion in popular movies such as “Contact” and the James Bond film “Goldeneye.”

Constructed in the early 1960s, the Arecibo telescope used radio waves to probe the farthest reaches of the universe. Among its most notable accomplishments is the first detection of a binary pulsar in 1974, per NPR. The discovery supported Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and eventually garnered the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics for a pair of researchers.

More recently, the radio telescope had been scrutinizing signals from pulsars across the galaxy for the telltale distortions of gravitational waves, according to the New York Times.

Arecibo has also played a significant role in the search for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Following NSF’s decision to dismantle the telescope, astronomer Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute penned a farewell message to the instrument: “For those astronomers and SETI researchers who have spent time at the Puerto Rican installation, the loss of this telescope is akin to hearing that your high school has burned down… Losing Arecibo is like losing a big brother. While life will continue, something powerful and profoundly wonderful is gone.”

#News

[freenewstoday]

New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2020/12/01/the-arecibo-telescope-in-puerto-rico-collapses/

The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico Collapses

The enormous Arecibo radio telescope, a destination for astronomers perched in the mountains of Puerto Rico, has collapsed, the National Science Foundation said on Tuesday.

The telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform, which was suspended by cables connected to three towers, fell onto the 1,000-foot antenna dish sometime overnight, the foundation said.

“The platform fell unexpectedly,” said Joshua Chamot, a spokesman for the foundation, which owns the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory. Officials said they were assessing the collapse before releasing more details. They did not specify when the platform had collapsed or why it fell.

“As we move forward, we will be looking for ways to assist the scientific community and maintain our strong relationship with the people of Puerto Rico,” the foundation said on Twitter.

The foundation announced on Nov. 19 that the telescope had to be torn down after an auxiliary cable slipped out of its socket and left a 100-foot gash in the dish below. The observatory is managed by the University of Central Florida.

“The decision comes after N.S.F. evaluated multiple assessments by independent engineering companies that found the telescope structure is in danger of a catastrophic failure and its cables may no longer be capable of carrying the loads they were designed to support,” the foundation said last month.

On Nov. 24, the foundation said engineers had observed more breaks in the wires of the remaining cables attached to one of the towers that held the platform.

The observatory has served as the vanguard of the search for alien civilizations, and astronomers used it to track killer asteroids.

For nearly six decades, the observatory was a renowned resource for radio astronomy and planetary research, and it held enormous cultural significance for Puerto Ricans. Many said they were inspired by the observatory to pursue careers in science and technology.

The telescope became ingrained in popular culture and was featured in movies like “Contact” and the James Bond film “Golden Eye.”

The telescope beamed signals to and from space, an ability that made it possible to collect undiscovered details about planets in the solar system, said Catherine Neish, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of Western Ontario.

One of its early feats, in 1967, the discovery that the planet Mercury rotates in 59 days, not 88 as astronomers had originally thought.

“It was an incredible piece of technology,” Dr. Neish said.

But after years of hurricane damage and financial duress, questions arose about the observatory’s future.

Puerto Rico residents and astronomers had called on the foundation to repair the telescope rather than demolish it.

Before the collapse, nearly 60,000 people signed a petition urging federal agencies to find a way to stabilize the structure.

But Thornton Tomasetti, an engineering firm hired by the University of Central Florida to assess the telescope, said the likelihood of another cable failing was too high to justify repair work.

“Although it saddens us to make this recommendation, we believe the structure should be demolished in a controlled way as soon as pragmatically possible,” the firm said in a letter to the university and the foundation.

On social media, scientists and Puerto Ricans who recalled visiting the observatory mourned the telescope after the collapse

“This is a stunning loss for our science capability,” Justin Kugler, an aerospace engineer, said on Twitter. “The United States needs to create a plan for a successor radio telescope that builds on the heritage of Arecibo and honors the commitment of Puerto Rico over these many years.”

Dr. Neish, the University of Western Ontario professor, said the loss of the telescope is not only devastating, it is also infuriating to scientists who believe the foundation could have done more to save it.

“It was not inevitable,” she said of the collapse. “If they had properly maintained it, it’s likely that wouldn’t have happened.”

“It’s such an undignified end,” she added. “That’s what’s so sad about it.”

Dennis Overbye contributed reporting.

Source

[punkblackmf]

King of Wakanda. Cosplayer featured is @ugoandcosplay(IG)

PUNK BLACK is back this month and it's Black Panther themed! Come out to mosh with us in your Black Panther cosplay and get in Free February 17th! Where: Union EAV What time: Doors at 10PM, first band at 10:30PM! Damage: $7 ($5 On-line until February 10th!) Line Up: LIFEFIRE9 10 Hit Combo Royal Sun Conkrete GOD Vendors: Clive Neish Jamee Cornelia Dusah Wiseman If you have any questions, comments or concerns feel free to email us at wearepunkblack@gmail.com

[askcharliefoxtrot]

I forgot to post these today! Oh well, I can reblog it in the morning. Here’s MediNeko, the robotic catgirl seen with “Mark” in these pictures. The artists are, in order;

- This is the one artist I haven’t been able to track down. They shared a table with @vixiebee but I haven’t been able to find out more. If anyone knows the artist’s name please let me know.

@leeshmaeart

James Neish

Liz Mac Draws

@artofchrissi

@magikarpdoodles

@becja

Thank you all for your amazing work! These are some wonderfully fun interpretations of her!

More about the character under the read more.

So MediNeko originally started out as a genderswapped version of “Mark” back when he was still an avatar for myself. Because everyone else was doing it, it’s a thing I guess *shrug*. She eventually turned into a separate character with her own backstory.

The MediNeko line was drafted and designed to act as nurses and personal care assistants to an aging otaku / weeaboo population, whether it be working in nursing homes or by allowing senior citizens to remain in their own homes by assisting in various tasks they were no longer capable of on their own. The line never made it past the programming stage, and no physical prototypes were ever constructed. MediNeko’s programmed AI was left forgotten for years before being discovered by Mark-88, who constructed her form based on the project’s original blueprints, with some modifications.

MediNeko is not entirely thrilled about her original purpose or how she is perceived by some, but is generally a happy and positive AI. Elements of her original programming sometimes crop to the surface (like stereotypical catgirl mannerisms) which she is embarrassed of. Her design is much more streamlined and sleek when compared to Mark. As one artist described the two of them, “They’re like Wall-E and Eva”.

[ninatoubale-blog]

Nina Toubale, Brighton England S&M | BDSM, University of Brighton www.nina-toubale.com www.facebook.com/1102803667 university of brighton, brighton uk, hove uk, Moulsecoomb uk, falmer uk, kemptown uk, paris fr, london uk, leatherhead uk, brighton student union, lewes uk, united kingdom, france, brighton PRYZM, brighton Rox, brighton Shooshh, Verneuil-sur-Seine fr, Meudon fr, Boulogne-Billancourt fr, Clamart fr, Porte de Saint-Cloud fr, Rennes fr Eric Pike, Esther Bradbury, Esther Clarke, Ethan Payne, Etta Lathan-Pons, Eugenia Emily Lola Ronco, Eva Clairambaud, Eva López Eiro, Evan Dean, Evie Weeks, Fabien Tavares, Fega Rachel Rox, Félix Gouriou, Fergus Chapman, Fran King, Francesca Thornton, François-Xavier Peraldi, Frankie Hossack, Freya Hallett, Gabriel Moos, Gayann Ngom, Geoffroy Plouviez, George Ethell, George Hayes, George Rees Bothick, George Scooby Gombas, Georgia Bell, Georgia Bell, Georgia Bennett, Georgia Harris, Georgia Tanner, Gil Lazarus, Giovanna Kubota, Giulia 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Fairs and Markets of Angus

The last post about fairs and markets covered some information about the fairs in Dundee, Forfar, Glasterlaw, Glen Esk and some others. This post looks in more detail about the famous Taranty Fair at Brechin, plus the markets of Arbroath – and other information.  

   Taranty Fair, Brechin

     Taranty (Trinity) Fair was a very renowned fair and cattle market held on the common at Trinity near the burgh of Brechin.  These days it still exists, but as a palimpsest of its previous existence, being held on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in June.  It was different in the mid 19th century, as recalled in an article which included contributions by James Grant (whose father farmed at Clochtow, Forfar) in the Brechin Advertiser, 25th June 1929:

 Then the Market ran for three days on Wednesday for sheep, Thursday for cattle, and Friday for horses.  For a month prior to the market advance parties were in Brechin and district fixing up lodgings and getting accommodation for the large number of animals that were forward for the market, and after the fair was over it was some time before the town was cleared, for the attenders sometimes enjoyed themselves not wisely but too well… At the market the Town Council, being superiors of the fair, attended, and the constabulary, it appears, were then nominated by the trades or guilds of the city.  From contemporary reports their services were not highly thought of, for a writer in the “Brechin Advertiser” in 1854 complains that instead of taking their proper positions throughout the market, they hung about Justice Hall…

  But on the whole the great fair seemed to pass off well, and if there were thimblers and pickpockets about the public were usually well warned… Compared with old days the market was now a shadow if what it used to be.  The readier of access which people had to the towns, and development of transport had taken away the usefulness of those gatherings.

    But however much the market had dwindled since its Victorian heyday, it was still a red letter day for agricultural workers in Angus and beyond well into the 20th century as one contributor to Bothy Nichts and Days (p. 44) recalled:

 Fowk biket fae a’ ower Angus and the Howe o’ the Mearns tae ging tae it.  Some hardy ploomen wid hae a goe at the boothboxers but it wisna offen they cud beat them, they a’ had nesty tricks, it wisna exactly Marquis o Queensberry rules. The Toon Cooncil held coort in a hoose aside the muir and onybody gettin oot o hand wis fined on the spotor spend a nicht in the cells.  Ye wid get the eftirnuin aff for the local show, like the Fetterie show, aye held on a Wednesday.

     Despite the centuries long record of fairs and markets associated with Brechin, most recorded change occurred throughout the 19th century, partially to reflect changing patterns in local farming.  (David Black, the historian of Brechin, documented these developments.) An act of the council, dated 25th March 1801, responded to local livestock dealers and farmers asking for a Trinity Muir spring market to be held on the third Wednesday of April, and this was first held on 15th April of that year.  The council established a new market – or ‘Tryst’ – in 1819, and this new date was appointed to be held on the Tuesday preceding the last Wednesday of September every year.  Again this was at the behest of the local farming community.  By 1833 the August Lammas Muir had ‘dwindled to a petty fair’ and further changes were instituted.  

  By the time David Black was writing the various fairs and markets of Brechin were still thriving, albeit those merchants who traded there were no longer the same.  Tuesday’s market was for grain, though there were cattle markets on that day in autumn and winter, with horse markets in February and March.  The great annual markets deserve to be described in detail as they capture a vanished mode of life:

The first Tuesday after Whitsunday, old style, is a great market day, chiefly for the hiring of country servants; and so is the first Tuesday after Martinmas, old style... Formerly these term markets were attended by chapmen, who formed a society amongst themselves, termed “The Chapmen of Angus”... These chapmen travelled in the country regularly, carrying their goods some in spring-carts, some on horseback... an inferior class, called packmen, travelled always on foot, and some of them carried immense packs on their backs... As the chapman waxed old and wealthy, he settled down as a merchant in some borough town.  The race is now all but wholly extinct. On a piece of ground of nearly 33 acres in extent...called Trinity, or more generally Tarnty Muir, a great fair is annually held for three days, commencing on the second Wednesday of June, to which cattle-dealers and horse-dealers resort from all parts of Scotland and some parts of England... There are other markets held on this ground in April, August, and September, but the June market is par excellence termed “the Trinity Fair”.  The April market, called the Spring Tryst, generally a large market, is held on the third Wednesday of that month...

  The size, dignity and importance of the markets on Trinity Muir was enforced zealously by the city’s officials and seems to have be a customary feature from early times, as again described by Black:

 Every one who has witnessed the fairs... has noticed the array of halberds with which the council are guarded to the markets, and by means of which, when necessary, the decisions of the magistrates, given in the markets, are enforced.  The guard is furnished by the incorporations of the town, each sending two men at Trinity fair, and one man at Lammas fair.  The weapons with which the men are armed belong to the respective incorporations...

  Black then records an event in May 1683 when two of the guard staged a mutiny, one of whom was a noted troublemaker named David Duncanson who had come to the attention of the authorities several times before.  

  Records of Brechin’s markets stretch back to the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214) and beyond.  A charter of William’s confirms a grant to the bishop and Culdees of the church of Brechin giving the right to hold a Sunday market. This confirmed a grant made by King David I and is repeated in later charters issued by Robert I and James II. The charter granted by David II in 1369 notes that the whole merchants inhabiting the City of Brechin had free ingress and egress to the waters of the South Esk and Tay for carrying their merchandise and prohibits the burgesses of Dundee and Montrose from interfering with these rights. The weekly market was moved from Sunday to Tuesday in the time of James III in the late 15th century.  The Trinity Fair is first mentioned in records in the late 16th century.  

 St Thomas’ Fair in Arbroath and Auchmithie

       By way of contrast to Brechin’s high days, we can look at the festivities surrounding the fairs and markets on the coast at Arbroath, memorably described in J. S. Neish’s In the By-Ways of Life (p. 57). One of the features of the celebration of St Thomas’s Day was an exodus of Arbroath folk along the coast to the village of Auchmithie. Lucky Walkers was the name of a famed hostelry in the fishing village.  Neish describes the annual outing:

By an early hour the lads and lasses streamed out of town by the cliffs or Seaton Road...  At the foot of the brae [in Auchmithie] there stood a huge barn-like building, which was used as a fish-curing house.  On these festive occasions this shed... was extemporised into a ballroom... During the whole day the fishermen made short trips with their cobles round the small bay with freights of screeching half-frightened women, who eagerly invested their spare coppers in a sail.

  The author tells us that Lucky Walker herself and her staff were run off their feet all day, bringing fish and ale to the incomers.  But, like other honoured customs, progress put an end to the trade. The coming of the railways meant that Arbroathians went further afield on their festive days and Lucky observed that ‘sin thae railways began her hoose was nae worth naething’.  

  By the late 19th century (according to the author of Arbroath, Past and Present), the market of St Thomas had practically ceased to exist.  But in former times this ‘Auld Market’ was held on the 18th July, if a Saturday, or the first Saturday thereafter.  Not just Auchmithie was a destination for holiday makers; locals also went to Lunan, East Haven, even Dundee.  

  The history of the fairs and markets in Arbroath provide an exemplary guide to the changes which also occurred in other locations, for, although markets and fairs were a constant in communities for centuries, local needs frequently dictated changes.  King William the Lion granted the right for Arbroath to hold a weekly market in the late 12th century, on Saturday.  The burgesses in 1528 chose Tuesday as the new market day.  By the time of the charter of James VI in 1599 the market was again being held on a Saturday and there were four annual markets:  St Thomas’s Day, St Vigean’s Day, St John’s Day, and St Ninian’s Day.  Two hundred years later the Old Statistical Account noted that there were three yearly fairs:  20th January (St Vigean’s), first Wednesday after Trinity Sunday (St Ninian’s), and 7th July (St Thomas a Beckett). The weekly market day was now Thursday (to which day it had been changed around 1742).  By the time of the publication of the New Statistical Account in 1845 the fairs had shrunk to two in number and the weekly market day was once again Saturday.  Late in the 19th century there were hiring markets held on the last Saturday of January, 26th May, 18th July, 22nd November (if these dates fell on Saturdays; if not, the Saturdays following).

 Feeing Markets

Feeing Markets for the hiring of farm labour at specific terms were, in a sense, the poor relations of fairs and markets held for the wider community.  Despite this, and because of their necessity, many lingered well into the 20th century, although they were much diminished. Harry Brown recalled travelling with his father on the first Friday after 28th November 1934 to Kirriemuir to attend what he thought was be an agricultural feeing market, only to find that the square was nearly empty and the market a thing of the past in Kirrie. Other markets remained in Arbroath and Brechin, although agricultural workers from both these areas sometimes preferred to journey to the Forfar market in hope of work because they believed that it was a better place for wages (A Life on the Land, p. 9).  According to the contributors who spoke to David Adams about the feeing process (Bothy Nichts and Days, pp. 46-47) the term times were Whitsunday (28th May) and Martinmas (28th November). Farm workers participating in this system were freed by current employers at lunchtime on the 28th and had three days to secure a job for the forthcoming term.  Forfar, according to one source, was infamously name the Rogue’s Market, because it was the last recourse of farm workers who could not get a fee elsewhere:  ‘onybody that cudna got a fee gaed there’.  In latter years married farm workers feed once a year, at May term (an exception being at Dundee, where they feed at winter term).  Single men feed every six months and were likely to move farms every few years if there was no promotion for them.  The procedure for announcing your availability for service was sometimes quite specific.  In Friock farm hands would line up in Gardyne Street ‘wi a strae in yere moo if ye hadna gotten a fee’.  The fees given to feed farm workers now seem so miniscule as to suggest that they seem to below to an entirely different age rather than last century.  A loun at a hiring market in 1921 would be likely to receive £20 for his first six month fee.  A fifth horseman in the next decade could demand the princely sum of £38 for a sixmonth.

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