A trip from America to Dundee

[Alastair]

Charlotte Juarez's Going Home

I just happened to stumble on this account as I was looking for something on the site and as it was so long since I'd read it I started to read it again. It's a great tale of Charlotte returning home to Dundee to bury her mother.

Her extended family also came either with her or caught up later and she starts the story departing from America with her mother's ashes and goes onto to tell her story and all the memories that came back.

It's a remarkably good story and so I thought I'd highlight it for you and you can read it at http://www.electricscotland.com/trav...te/homendx.htm

Alastair

[Glesgalass]

Re: A trip from America to Dundee

I just read the account of her visit to Glasgow and thought what a pity it was that she didn't visit the People's Palace in Glasgow Green. It's a wonderful place which is always changing and I never miss to visit when I'm in Scotland. It is, of course, all about the history of Glasgow.
One time I was there they had a photographic display of Glasgow in the 1950's. God! It brought back memories, I had tears in my eyes looking at pictures of kids playing all the games in the streets which we used to.

Elda

[Alastair]

Re: A trip from America to Dundee

We've got up some of the rhymes that the girls used to sing when skipping in the play ground. It's the Glasgow Street Poetry section at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...at/spoetry.htm

I can't now remember her name but it was someone from Australia. She used to call her father up in Scotland and get him to tell her some of the old poems and she'd write them down and send them into me.

Alastair