Super User Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ North Clutag Farm Today, North Clutag is an ordinatry working dairy farm, but in the 1930&#39;s it was home to an extraordinary man.&nbsp; John McNeilie, who wrote under the pen name of Ian Niall, spent his boyhood days here.&nbsp; He scandalised the local community by publishing &#39;The Wigtown Ploughman&#39;, in which he described in unflinching details the hardships of life endured by farm labourers in the early years of the 20th century.&nbsp; The book sparked calls for change and progress, but locally he was ostracised by many neighbours who were all to recognisable on the page.&nbsp; McNeillie went on to publish more thatn 40 books, including the hugely popular &#39;The Poacher&#39;s Handbook&#39;, and &#39;No Resting Place&#39;, a remarkably sympathetic book on travelling gypsies, written as it was in 1948. Museum 1106 10757 No 29/9/2007 10.00-15.00 <p>Hear McNeillie&#39;s son Andrew, now a publisher, reading from his father&#39;s books in the byre, listen to local folksinger Billy Martin who will also be reading book extracts in the local dialect.&nbsp; </p><p>Please remember that this is a working farm so children should be closely supervised and dogs kept in the car or left at home.&nbsp; Please wear sensible shoes or wellies.</p> Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No No No