Summary
Despite dwindling fishing fleets, Ullapool has launched a festival in celebration of fish. Edd McCracken is hooked; U LLAPOOL could teach Edinburgh a thing or two about festivals. When the culture vultures pick over the city in August, Edinburgh's residents run for the hills. But this week, 230 miles northwest of the capital, Ullapool is weighing anchor and launching a festival of its own - and apparently the community (all 1731 members of it) cannot wait.
Ullapool, in the final days before Fish Week, clockwise from top left: Mark Stockl puts the finishing touches to Wee Hector; locals tuck in to a fish supper; local schoolchildren show off their artwork; a catch of fish; a fishy sculpture; the Astronaut returns home; creels and cottages by the pier Photographs: Steve Cox Instead of bringing in an armada of international acts, Ullapool Fish Week involves the town holding up a mirror to itself and reflecting on its own history as a fishing town, the seafood that adorns its plates, the dramatic seascapes that inspire its artists, and the debate that fills its pubs.See the full content of this document
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A Week Devoted to Fish? There has to Be a Catch ...
Ullapool may be a few hundred miles from the central belt, but don't dare call it remote. Nothing frustrates Jean Urquhart, local councillor and Fish Week dynamo, more than that.
"For 'remote' people read 'backward', isolated, a sleepy backwater not in touch with the news," she says, sipping a drink in the Ceilidh Place, one of Ullapool's liveliest hotels. "And when they get here they don't expect to find a place with ...See the full content of this document
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