Great Bernera

Not an evangelist, not a special effort, not anything at all organized on the basis of human endeavor, but an awareness of God that gripped the whole community.

Soon the moving of God's Spirit was felt on other islands, including Harris, Bernera, and Tyree.

But it was the revival on North Uist that Jean Blanchard remembers best.

The year was 1957.

The Western Isles.

It's called Great Bernera, which, um, you know, you...

So there's, it, it's, it doesn't take, you know, the, the, the, the journey, uh, in comparison to a, a journey that a, a lot, journeys that Americans make, it's fairly short.

It'd be a four-hour drive to the ferry port to Ullapool, then we take a two and a half, half hour ferry to Stornoway, and then there would be a, a, a, an hour and a half drive to the studio on Great Bernera where there would be the five of us in the band, the two engineers, and a lot of sheep.

And that was kind of it.

It was really, really remote, but it's, it's a beautiful landscape and sort of magical sort of landscape.

But, um, we had to drive north to Ullapool and then take a ferry across to the, the main island.

Then we had to drive, uh, for another couple of hours to a place called Great Bernera, where, um, the studio was located.

And it's quite remote.

There's not a lot there.

Claire Kellerman, the adopted daughter of actress Sally Kellerman, who played the original Hot Lips Houlihan in the 1970s movie MASH, has made an enemy of an entire Scottish island in a peeing match over her dog.

The 61-year-old daughter of the big screen beauty, who died in 2022 at the age of 84, pooped on her neighbors on the remote island of Great Bernera, which has a population of fewer than 250 people, by taking a local cafe to court when, after her Australian cattle dog was denied entrance.

Claire initially sued the Great Bernera Community Development Trust, which cost the group $7,000, before amending the complaint to sue the Bernera Community Association, which operates the Blue Lobster Cafe.

Claire claims that she is being discriminated against after being prevented from bringing her dog onto the premise, despite her insistence that he's an assistance dog.

She has not, however, provided any proof of those claims.