Preserving the Hebrides' Gaelic Culture

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Published July 5, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

In the first of a two-part Worlds of Difference series, Vera Frankl reports about an economic revolution on Scotland's remote Hebrides Islands. While the semi-feudal farming system there slowly dies out, tenant farmers are fighting to preserve their ancient Gaelic culture.

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