Fiona Ritchie
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“Fi's Ability”, a memoir' is a charming stroll through a daughter's early years, and more recently, her experience spending lockdown with her blind, slightly deaf, cynical and wobbly nonagenarian mother.
“On my Mother's Life” is a cry for help, well... that's how social services interpreted it. Throughout lockdown, many people spent more time with their family than they were comfortable with, the letters convey just how a mother and daughter...
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Quite a few families have more than one child. George and Mary Ritchie were lulled into a false sense of security with their firstborn, naively believing that their son was just the start of a peaceful, joyous life that could only be enhanced with another sibling. So, when a ginger-haired, podgy-pink kid with hiccups arrived on a bitterly cold December morning, they were beginning to think changes might be afoot. The new parents had no idea a child...
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From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German,...