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     Survival, Co-operation and 
     
     9ndependence in Tignish 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Thomas More Institute for Research in Adult 
     
     Liberal Studies was founded in 1964. Most of its members 
     
     have been involved, to a greater or lesser extent, in its 
     
     sister organization, the Thomas More Institute for Adult 
     
     Education. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Elizabeth Cran has been a member of the Research 
     
     Institute almost since its beginning. From that time to the 
     
     present, the Research Institute has given moral support 
     
     and academic credibility, as well as practical advice, to 
     
     her work in Tignish. The following statement sums this 
     
    
   
   
    
     up. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Disappearing into Tignish and periodically 
     
     resurfacing at the meetings of the Thomas More 
     
     Institute for Research in Adult Liberal Studies, you 
     
     have to be both an outsider and insider in our urban 
     
     milieu, as well as out East. But always there has been the 
     
     work in progress, which now comes into maturity, and 
     
     the small town has continually been on our map. As 
     
     questions submerge and surface, we are somehow 
     
     constituted by them, and the quiet question of Tignish 
     
     has been a salty tang in our identity.