Jean Sutherland was a writer

Writer

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, performer and photographer, who lived for most of her life in the village of Newburgh

Newburgh

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, in Fife

Fife

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, Scotland

Scotland

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Her photographs of Fife locals and events appeared from the early 1960s to the 1990s in the Fife Herald and The Courier

The Courier

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, for whom she contributed articles on the history of Newburgh.

A life-long collector and performer of poems and songs, she performed from the 1960s with The Fife Yokels, recording a number of LPs and appearing on Grampian Television

Grampian Television

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's Bothy Nichts programmes. Sutherland wrote a number of original songs, including "Among The Neeps" and "The Barley".