Spotlight - 11.2019

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 11/2019 Spotlight 7


NORTHERN IRELAND


Home is


where the


hearth is


EASY


It would be difficult for most of us to live
without running water or electricity for
a day, but Margaret Gallagher, aged 77,
lives like this because she wants to. Her
home is the place where she was born —
a 280-year-old house near the Irish border
in County Fermanagh. Here, she cooks
over an open fire and brings water into
the house by bucket. She told the BBC
that in the 1950s, when most people in
Ireland were modernizing their homes,
her mother had died and her father got
sick, and that she has “never seen any rea-
son to change”. She said, “I am my own
person. I have my own identity. I’m doing
it because I like doing it.”


Age: 24
From: Powys, Wales
Background: Huws began playing the
harp when she was 10 and studied at
the Royal Welsh College of Music and
Drama. She went on to play for the royal
family and at important events.
Famous because: She is the new Royal

Harpist to the Prince of Wales. She is the
sixth harpist to hold this position since
Prince Charles re-established it in 2000.
Ambition: She told the BBC that she
hopes to use her new position to be an
ambassador for the language, music and
culture of Wales, and to popularize the
harp.

GHANA

A great leap


for nature
EASY

Caleb Ofori-Boateng recently won the
Whitley Award for helping to protect the
Togo slippery frog, which at one time peo-
ple thought was extinct. Ofori-Boateng,
a herpetologist from Ghana, helped to
rediscover the frog in 2005 and has es-
tablished an area to protect it. He says
the Togo slippery frog is completely dif-
ferent from any other frog. “It is believed
genetically to be as different as pigs are
from whales,” he told Rainforest Trust. It
had almost died out because local people
think eating it protects them from becom-
ing ill, and because the forest where the
Togo slippery frog lives is disappearing.

I want


to er adicate


the miscon-


ception


that ‘female’


is a genre,


’cause it isn’t.


award [E(wO:d]
, Preis, Auszeichnung
extinct [Ik(stINkt]
, ausgestorben

herpetologist
[)h§:pI(tQlEdZIst]
, Experte, Expertin für
Reptilien und Amphibien
slippery frog
[(slIpEri frQg]
, Riesenfrosch

bucket [(bVkIt]
, Eimer


hearth [hA:T]
, Herd, Feuerstelle
(Wortspiel mit „home is
where the heart is“)

THE NEWCOMER

Alis Huws EASY


eradicate
[I(rÄdIkeIt]
, beseitigen,
ausmerzen

misconception
[)mIskEn(sepS&n]
, Irrglauben

ambassador
[Äm(bÄsEdE]
, Botschafter(in)

harp [hA:p]
, Harfe

— Kate Nash, British singer-
songwriter, in her recent
documentary, Kate Nash: Under-
estimate the Girl, about the
brutality of the music industry.
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