{"id":881,"date":"2014-12-29T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:34:31","slug":"poleson-betty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/29\/poleson-betty\/","title":{"rendered":"Poleson, Betty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betty (1908 \u2013 1993) was one of Whal<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Betty-Poleson.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Betty-Poleson.jpg\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Betty-Poleson-223x300.jpg\" class=\"ml-lightbox-enabled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-884 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsayans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Betty-Poleson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Betty Poleson\" width=\"263\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a>say&#8217;s &#8216;characters&#8217;, \u00a0a crofter-spinster who lived near the Loch of Houll. \u00a0Like many of the Whalsay women she worked as a gutter for a time and later became a home help. \u00a0She was full of humour, \u00a0and spoke with a rich Whalsay dialect. \u00a0\u00a0 Betty kept\u00a0a fine manuscript collection of 60 songs which she had collected in Whalsay, though it was difficult to persuade her to sing.\u00a0However, she knew many rhymes and some rather risqu\u00e9 riddles and\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0her tenacious memory made her a\u00a0useful prompter for friends whose memories might let them down when singing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below is just one of the pages from her songbook showing her neat calligraphy.\u00a0 To hear this song, though not sung by Betty go to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/11\/wreck-of-the-pacific-the\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific.jpg\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific.jpg\" data-thumb=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific-229x300.jpg\" class=\"ml-lightbox-enabled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3005 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific\" width=\"335\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific-229x300.jpg 229w, http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/12\/Pacific.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/29\/poleson-betty\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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