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Crail Matters www.crabpublishing.co.uk CRAIL MATTERS W/C 10 April No 10 Free Local elections - Candidates for East Neuk and Landward Ward Candidate Party Benjamin Bridgman Scottish Green Polling to elect the 3 Councillors to represent the Elec- John Docherty Scottish National toral Ward of East Neuk and Landward will take place Rosalind Garton Scottish Labour between the hours of 7am and 10pm on Thursday, 4th Alisdair Gilbert Scottish Liberal Democrat May, 2017. Margaret Harper Scottish National Linda Holt Scottish Conservative and Unionist The deadline for applications to be included on the Bill Porteous Scottish Liberal Democrat Register of Electors is midnight 17 April. The deadline for new postal vote applications is 5.00pm 18 April. Crail Folk Club Our next guest night at Crail Folk Club is on Thursday 13th April in Crail Town Hall and features Maggie Holland. Maggie is best known for her song ‘A Place Called Eng- land’ which won her the prestigious BBC Folk Award for Best Song. A song covered by such gods of the folk world as June Tabor and Martin Carthy. She worked for many years with ex-husband Ian Anderson in the duo called Hot Vultures; latterly she has been work- ing in the band called the Broonzies which also features club favourite Jez Lowe and Lindisfarne’s Rod Clements. However, it is mainly as a solo artist that she is now best known with several albums to her credit featuring her own material and songs by the likes of Al Stewart. Maggie accompanies herself on guitar and banjo and is an accom- plished bass player. This is sure to be a popular night which starts at 8pm (BYOB) Crail Scouts Crail Community Choir Our Scouts are going to Ireland this summer and we are looking for Kilts to fit boys & girls aged 12-14 The Choir will next meet on 17th April 7.30 pm in The along with socks and plain sporrans, if anyone has any Town Hall of these items that they no longer require and would be Everyone will be made very welcome. happy to donate them to the scouts please contact Lisa There is no obligation to attend every week. or Alastair on 450035. Crail Art Group Funding Crail Matters Crail Art Group are holding their annual Easter Exhibi- tion in Crail Kirk Hall. Framed, unframed paintings, The Editorial Team wish to thank those readers and ad- cards and Crafts for sale. vertisers who have very generously made donations to Crail Matters. We continue to depend on your support FRIDAY 14TH APRIL 10 AM-4PM to maintain what we hope is an interesting and useful SATURDAY 15TH APRIL 2PM-5PM Newsletter. SUNDAY 16TH APRIL 12.30-5PM MONDAY 17TH APRIL 10AM- 3PM To donate, please make cheques payable to ‘Crab Pub- Refreshments Raffle lishing’, or please contact us for the necessary details FREE ENTRY to make a bank transfer. 1 Easter The Christian Festival of Easter is a countries. Indeed, in some parts of the complicated amalgam of a number of country, the tradition of rolling hard traditions, with origins that go back boiled eggs, or pace egging, still survives long before Christianity as a religion as an Easter tradition. The eggs are dec- was founded. It commemorates of orated, and then distributed to children or course Christ’s death and resurrection, pace eggers on Easter Sunday, who pro- a central fact for Christians – but there cess around a village collecting money. is no clarity about when Christ was This tradition was once common in the crucified, other than it was at the time North of England and Scotland, and still of the Jewish festival of Passover. exists in some parts of Lancashire. That, then locates Easter more or less in our season of Spring, a time of new Easter, as a celebration of Christ’s resur- beginning and growth and a time rection, actually receives little reference when, at least in our climate, the in the Bible. The New Testament is weather begins to lose that bleak mid- Ethel Quayle largely silent on what is now regarded by winter quality. many Christians as the central holiday of the year. Indeed, Baptism, rather than Easter, is stressed However, this period of the year has a long association as the symbolism to celebrate associated with the death with festivals from other religious traditions, which also marked the change from winter to summer and the fer- tility this implies. One Northern European tradition that seems to have influenced our symbols of Easter, and perhaps even its name, is derived from the Germanic or Norse God Ostara or Eástre, the embodiment of dawn or light. Bede, in the De Mensibus Anglorum (The En- glish Months written around 700 AD) describes the in- digenous names of the months of the English peoples and identifies Ēosturmōnaþ as the month of the goddess Ēostre which he says is translated as ‘Paschal month’. This has been a source of scholarly dispute for cen- turies, although recent work suggests it may have some truth to it. Whatever the origins, it does seem likely that our term Easter seems to have roots in Eástre. www.romanicoaragones.com and resurrection of Christ ‘Therefore we were buried Some of the symbols of Easter we are with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ familiar with, such as Hares and Rab- was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, bits (the Easter bunny), also seem to even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if have roots in association with Eástre we have been united together in the likeness of His or perhaps the Norse goddess Freya, death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His with ideas about fertility and renewal. resurrection’ (Romans 6:3-5). The symbolic origins of Easter eggs, in contrast, seem to have Easter celebrations seem to lie, then, in the early their roots in ancient Mesopotamia Church’s need to commemorate Christs’ rebirth, and the and Crete, where some 5,000 years ago, there is evi- earliest references to Easter occur around the mid-2nd dence that decorated eggs were placed in tombs, sym- century, rather than Biblical injunction. bolising both death and new life; there is one body of opinion using a similar logic (new light, dawn, fertility) Whatever the origins, the idea of light, new life, and the that also links Easter eggs with Eástre. It seems more optimism associated with the resurrection characterise likely, however, that our traditions associated with eggs our sense of Easter. In the troubled times we live in, a spread from the ancient world to Western Europe celebration of optimism seems appropriate, and it is through the influence of the Orthodox Christianity. The perhaps also an opportunity to reflect on the values we role of eggs at Easter may also have a more prosaic ex- hold together and share, and the ties that bind us to our planation, however. It was the tradition to forbid the eat- families and communities, and more broadly, together. ing of eggs during Lent, resulting in an abundance of And this of course, is not something just confined to eggs accumulating as Lent progressed. To preserve Easter, however we take meaning from it. them, these eggs may have been hard boiled – and then eaten at Easter, a tradition still found in some European 2 Easter Services Crail Kirk 12th April 6:30pm Holy Wednesday Service in Kingsbarns Church (Cluster Event) 13th April 6:30pm Maundy Thursday Sacrament of Holy Communion in Crail Church 14th April 6:30pm Good Friday Service in Crail Church 16th April 8am Easter Day Early morning service at Triangle Park followed by breakfast in the Kirk Hall. 16th April 11:15am Easter Day Service in Crail Church St John’s Pittenweem 13th April 7:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday - Ecumenical Communion - Kilconquhar Church or Pittenweem Parish Church 14th April Good Friday Reflection 2:00 p.m. 16th April Easter Sunday 8:00 a.m. Ecumenical Dawn Service at Elie Harbour followed by breakfast at the Parish Hall 1130 Easter Communion St Salvator’s Chapel 16 April 1100 Sunday Service followed by Eucharist. Christ The King, Pittenweem 13 April 5.30pm Thursday of The Lord’s Supper 14 April 7.30pm Stations of The Cross 16 April 8.45am Easter Sunday Crail Kirk Coffee Morning The Easter Coffee Morning will take place in the Kirk Hall on Saturday 15 th April, 10 - 12 noon. Baking stall and raffle. All welcome. Come and begin the Easter celebrations with us. (Donations of baking and/or raffle prizes would be very welcome). Crail Guild Crail Guild meets on Thursday April 13th at 2.15pm in the Church. It is the AGM with a Fife Slide Show Quiz from Eldon Zuill. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE. Planning Notices - Installation of replacement windows - 19 Castle Street Crail Anstruther Fife KY10 3SJ - application refused Installation of replacement windows - 19 Castle Street Crail Anstruther Fife KY10 3SJ Crail Matters Short Story Award and Prize Crail Matters has established a Short Story Award and Prize to encourage creative writing in Crail and the East Neuk in general; if this initiative is successful, we hope it will be offered on a regular basis. The award will consist of a cash prize of £50 and a certificate. In addition, selected entries will be published in Crail Matters, and may also be included in a collected anthology which may be published as an ebook by Crab Publishing. The Editorial decision in all matters is final. Stories can be on any theme or subject but must be original and written in English, and should not be longer than 3,000 words.
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