Mining Can Be Fun By Allen Buckley in 1995
A problem “up-country” settlers have with the Cornish is knowing when to take them seriously. No race on earth is as dedicated to the “wind-up” as is the Cornish Celt, and more Englishmen and other “furriners” have gone back across the Tamar convinced of the truth of some amazing or unlikely story, than it takes […]
Bit Chat With Joy Stevenson, our Maid Lowenna
Cornish author and bard, the late great Joy Stevenson, who promoted dialect throughout her life wrote this piece for Cornwall Today Yesterday & Dreckly in 1996. Joy died in 2015 in her 90s with husband Stan by her side. Stan was an adobted Cornishman being Scottish and he was a truly lovely man that I […]