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Shetland Museum Service - Covers three museums on the islands: The Shetland Museum, The Croft House Museum and The Böd of Gremista Museum. Comprehensive historic archives of Shetland in each.
Shetland Music Development Project - Excellent site promoting local music. Read about the history of musicmaking on the islands, listen to sound clips of Shetland music, and find out about upcoming events and concerts.
Shetland Music Distribution - Traditional and contemporary music from Shetland. Full secure payment service.
Shetland Folk Festival - Society that holds an annual festival of folk music from around the world. Information on past and future festival events.
Catriona Macdonald - A traditional Shetland fiddler. Site details her tour dates, newsletter, along with samples of her music.
Shetland Library - Based in Lerwick, with a mobile service to outlying areas. Includes details of forthcoming events, mobile library schedule, and publications from the library.
Islesburgh Photographic Club - Programme of meetings and events, venue, pictures by members and forthcoming exhibitions.
Shetland Connections - Photographs and paintings by Robin Barclay. Also details of self-catering accommodation.
Fetlar Interpretive Centre - Visitor centre describing the history, culture and wildlife of Fetlar, an inhabited island east of Yell in the Shetland Isles. Museum includes archives of local photographs, recordings of local history, folklore and music, and film of the island going back to the early 1930s.
Shetland Film Club - Current news and event listings. [Requires Flash]
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Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Arts and Entertainment I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa I loathe people who keep dogs. 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If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Arts and Entertainment I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Arts and Entertainment Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous Never apologize for showing feeling. 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