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The History of Gypsy Roma Travellers in Dumfries & Galloway
October 26, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join Museum Curator, Judith Hewitt, as she talk’s about the latest exhibition in Dumfries Museum:
On 4th February, Andrew Kennedy died in The Crichton Hospital. He had been in the institution for several years receiving treatment following a mental collapse.
He could not bear to be inside, claiming that he could not sleep behind a locked door. Andrew was the ‘last of the Kennedy’s’, a long-established Dumfries and Galloway Tinkler Gypsy family.
Learn more about this hidden history – the culture of Gypsy Roma Travellers in our region alongside their persecution.
Free to attend, no need to book.
Dumfries and Galloway Council Museums Service
01387 253374
dgculture@dumgal.gov.uk