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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Geikie's Etchings
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Glencreggan: or A Highland Home in Cantire
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits
The Lairds of Glenlyon: Historical Sketches
Traditions of Perth
Glasgow and it's Clubs
Commercial Relations of England and Scotland 1603 - 1707
Robert Burns Lives!
Dr. John McLoughlin - Father of Oregon (New Book)
Clan Home Society
ecollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
Electric Scotland News
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I got a note in telling me that my good friend Neil Fraser was taken to hospital for an emergency operation. He is also battling cancer so all in all having a tough time of it.
He has taken the time though to ask me to help promote an event which I am more than happy to do...
Dear friends, fellow pipers and supporters,
It's just about a week before my feature documentary, ON THE DAY: The Story of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band, screens in 53 Cineplex and Empire Theatres across Canada. The premiere is on February 9 and an encore screening is set for February 13. All tickets are $9.99 and groups of 20 or more get in for $8.99. As most of you know, making this movie was an arduous task for me, and only possible because of the support I received from the piping and Scottish communities around the world. You can additionally show your support by purchasing a movie ticket.
The film will be screened in full HD and has been mixed in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound for this special theatrical release. Having been to the World Pipe Band Championships on four occasions, I can say that this is BETTER than being there. If you live in Canada, don't miss this unique event. If you know people in Canada, please buy them a ticket as a gift. Let's see if we can fill up every seat and show that there is an audience out there for the music we all love so much. See you at the cinema!
List of participating theatres is attached. Order tickets [HERE] for Cineplex, SilverCity, Galaxy and Colossus Theatres. Order tickets [HERE] for Empire Theatres. Check for updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks,
John McDonald
Producer/Director
ON THE DAY
http://onthedaymovie.com
I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish Neil well with his recovery. Neil as you may know is the Canadian representative of Clan Fraser. By the time you read this he will likely have been moved to the Trauma and Neurosurgery In-Patient Unit, 9th Floor, Cardinal Carter Central, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1E8.
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I also got in a request to publicise an online course in modern Scottish history from 1707 onwards...
Our new MSc History (Modern Scottish History) will be taught via distance learning. This innovative on-line History Masters programme is the first in Scotland to focus exclusively on the modern history of this country, during a period of dynamic transformation and rediscovery.
The programme is headed by Professor Catriona MacDonald, who recently won the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award at the Saltire Society Awards in Edinburgh on the 29th November, for her book ‘Whaur Extremes Meet’ (2009).
http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/4153
Read more about this course at http://www.electricscotland.org/show...-Online-Course
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Originally founded in 1989 as a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the coming of the first group of Highland Scots to North Carolina, the "Our Scottish Heritage" Symposium has provided an unparalleled opportunity for persons interested in Scottish and Scottish-American history and culture to learn from top scholars in their fields. The Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Symposium provides a forum for study and interaction for anyone interested in Scottish history, culture, and tradition.
The 2011 Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Symposium is on March 18-20, 2011
For more details visit http://www.sapc.edu/shc/scottishheritagesymposium.php
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As I mentioned in a previous newsletter we're working on bringing you an Amazon Shopping Mall. The first take at this will include the USA, Canadian and UK stores and we may add others later depending on requests.
There are three reasons for doing this... first it's because I learnt that Amazon is expanding in the UK and that has resulted in 950 new jobs for Scotland as their UK operations are based in Scotland. There is also the potential to add a further 1500 part time jobs. So as their success brings actual jobs to Scotland we thought it would be worth promoting them.
The second reason is that we get numerous requests from Scottish authors and other authors writing about Scotland and the Scots to help promote their books and for that matter DVD's and CD's and other products. That being the case we will make a point of featuring their products in the stores and thus hopefully help to promote them.
And of course as we earn some commission from any sales it will hopefully generate some income for us to both help defray the costs of working on this and perhaps even a wee profit contribution for the site.
And so if you are a Scottish author or music or video producer or are producing products about Scotland then feel free to get in touch and let us know about them as long as they are available on the Amazon stores of the USA, UK or Canada.
To help us cut down the work to build this we are purchasing a dedicated script to handle the Amazon shopping mall and the way it works is that you should be able to do all your purchases on our site but when you go to the checkout to complete your purchase you'll be sent to Amazon's own checkout page to complete your purchases meaning that Amazon themselves will do the financial transactions and the shipping of your products.
There are in fact three possible scripts we can use for this and Steve is evaluatiing each of them for both design and functionality. We hope to make the decision on which script to use by next week and then we'll purchase it and get working on it and so we hope to have this available by the end of the month.
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Had real problems this week as I got a Trojan on my computer and it took around 36 hours of work to get rid of it. That really meant I could do no work on my computer until the problem was resolved.
As an observation only this Trojan came onto my computer through a Porn site. And no I didn't visit it intentionally :-) I find if you are trying to do research on a womens name it's amazing how often you get links to porn sites. That really doesn't happen if you are researching mens names.
I will say that my Macafee program did spot it but it said I had to navigate to the folder, arrange to share it and only then could they remove it. The fact that it didn't actally give the folder name was both unhelpful but also worrying as I'm getting highly suspicious these days. Was it really the Macafee progran telling me this or was it the Trojan trying to get better access to my computer?
Anyway... as usual these days I went through my iYogi support folk and after the first attempt at removal I found it hadn't worked. I then went back and they did more work and thought they'd got it fixed this time. well I thought to be extra sure I'd run the full scan with Macaffee and found it wouldn't run. And so back to iYogi. They fixed that problem and it now looked like all was well. I decided before I did anything else I'd do a full backup and system image backup only to find some 2 hours later that it had failed. So I decided to reformat my external hard disk to ensure it wasn't a hard disk issue. I then tried again and got the same error,,. couldn't read the system image copy.
And so it was back to iYogi for the fourth time. This time I got escalated to the next level of support. As you may know to fix things they actually take control of your computer and you just watch as they do whatever. Well this time the chap was going to places on my computer that I didn't even know existed. Anyway... this time they fixed it and I was able to get my backup done.
As you may know doing virus scans and anti-malware scans and backups all take hours to do so it was quite an exhausting 36 hours I had to go through to get everything back.
ABOUT THE STORIES
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Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/rss/whatsnew.php
Electric Scotland Community
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We're working behind the scenes on bringing you a greatly upgraded service which will continue to provide our forums but will surround them by lots of new facilities. We don't yet have a time scale for this as it's a complex system to setup and we want to do some good testing before we launch it. I must say I'm quite excited about bringing the community to the next level. It's getting much closer to the type of community I envisaged some 8 years ago now.
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org/forum.php
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
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This weeks issue is now available Compiled by Jennifer Dunn in which she has done 2 good articles which discuss on the one hand the state of education in Glasgow and the other being a discussion on whether prisoners should get a vote. As a bit of a departure this issue doesn't have a Synopsis.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Geikie's Etchings
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This week we've added more etchings...
The Shoe Stand
A Youthful Artist
Reading A Tract
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ikie/index.htm
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
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And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 3 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've added...
Battle Of The Grampians - 84
Battle Of Dalree - 1306
You can read these accounts at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Glencreggan: or A Highland Home in Cantire
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By Cuthbert Bede (1861)
This week we've started Volume 2 with...
Chapter XX - Grouse-Land
Highland Herd-girl. — Her pastoral Charge. — Not cowed by Bulls. — Highland Cattle. — Stots and Kyloes. — Rosa Bonheur. — Highland Raids. — "Winter Beef. — A sharp-witted Lad. — Highland Rams. —
Auld Hornie. — Scotch Mulls. — The Collie — His Attainments and Duties — Some wondrous Anecdotes thereupon. — Shooting. — GameBags. — True Sport versus Battue Slaughter. — Gentlemen not Gamekeepers. — The Pleasures of Grouse-shooting. — St. Grouse vindicated. — The Fox-hunting of shooting.
You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glencreggan/
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits
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A Series of Anecdotal Biographies chiefly of Scotchmen, Mostly by James Paterson and Edited by James Maidment (1885)
This week we have added...
John Wright, Lecturer on Law
James Marshall, Esq., Writer to the Signet
Sir James Grant, Bart., of Grant
Dr. Alexander Munro, Secundus, Professor of Anatomy
The Rev. John Kemp, D.D., of the Tolbooth Church
Here is a great wee story from the account of James Marshall...
This is a striking etching of a somewhat eccentric yet active man of business—one of the few specimens of the old school who survived the close of last century. The smart gait—the quick eye—aquiline nose—compressed lips—the silver spectacles, carelessly thrown upwards—the cocked hat firmly crowning the old black wig—and the robust appearance of the whole figure, at once bespeak the strong nerve and decisive character of the original.
Almost every sexagenarian in Edinburgh must recollect Mr. James Marshall, Writer to the Signet. He was a native of Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, and made his debut upon the stage of life in the year 1731. From his having become a writer to the signet at a period when that society was more select than it is at present, we may fairly presume that his parents were respectable, and possessed of at least some portion of the good things of this world.
Mr. Marshall was both an arduous and acute man of business; but he possessed one accomplishment that might have been dispensed with, for he was one of the most profound swearers of his day; so much so, that few could possibly compete with him. Every sentence he uttered had its characteristic oath ; and, if there was any degree of wit at all in the numerous jokes which his exuberance of animal spirits suggested, it certainly lay in the peculiar magniloquent manner in which he displayed his "flowers of eloquence." As true chroniclers, however, we must not omit recording a circumstance which, notwithstanding this most reprehensible habit, does considerable credit to the heart of the heathen lawyer. One day the poor washerwoman whom he employed appeared at his office in Milne's Square, with her head attired in a mourning coif, and her countenance unusually rueful. "What—what is the matter, Janet?" said the writer, in his usual quick manner. Janet replied, in faltering accents, that she had lost her gudeman. "Lost your man!" said Marshall; at the same time throwing up his spectacles, as if to understand the matter more thoroughly, "How the d------did that happen?" Janet then stated the melancholy occurrence by which she had been bereaved. It seems that at that time extensive buildings were going on about the head of Leith Walk; and, from the nature of the ground, the foundations of many of them were exceedingly deep. Janet's husband had fallen, in the dark, into one of the excavations—which had been either imperfectly railed in, or left unguarded—and, from the injuries sustained, he died almost immediately. Marshall patiently listened to the tale, rendered doubly long by the agitated feelings of the narrator; and, as the last syllable faltered on her tongue, out burst the usual exclamation, but with more than wonted emphasis—"The b------s, I'll make them pay for your gudeman!"
No sooner said than done: away he hurried to the scene of the accident—inspected the state of the excavation—and, having satisfied himself as to all the circumstances of the case, and the liability of the contractors, he instantly wrote to them, demanding two hundred pounds as an indemnity to the bereaved widow. No attention having been paid to his letter, he immediately raised an action before the Supreme Court, concluding for heavy damages; and, from the active and determined manner in which he went about it, soon convinced his opponents that he was in earnest. The defenders became alarmed at the consequences, and were induced to wait upon Mr. Marshall with the view of compounding the matter, by paying the original demand of two hundred pounds. "Na, na, ye b------s! " was the lawyer's reply; "that sum would have been taken had ye come forward at first, like gentlemen, and settled wi' the puir body; but now (adding another oath) three times the sum'll no stop the proceedings." Finding Marshall inexorable, another, and yet another hundred was offered—not even five hundred would satisfy the lawyer. Ultimately the parties were glad to accede to his own terms; and it is said he obtained, in this way, upwards of seven hundred pounds as a solatium for the "lost gudeman"—all of which he handed over to his client, who was thus probably made more comfortable by the death of her husband than she had ever been during his life.
You can read the rest of this account at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/kays/vol155.htm
The other entries can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/kays/index.htm
The Lairds of Glenlyon: Historical Sketches
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Relating to the Districts of Appin, Glenlyon and Breadalbane by Duncan Campbell (1886)
We have now completed this book by adding chapter 31 and the Appendix
There are actually some very good wee stories in the Appendix so well worth a read.
The chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...lyon/index.htm
Traditions of Perth
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Containing Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants during the last century by George Penny (1836)
We've now added Pages Pages 95 to 113 and information in these pages are mostly to do with the legal syste, whippings and capital punishment.
You can get to these pages at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/perth/
Glasgow and it's Clubs
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Or Glimpses of Conditions, Manners, Characters and Oddities of the City By John Strang LL.D. (1857)
This week we've added "Highland Immigration and Highland Hospitality—Gaelic Club".
It is perhaps strange to say that, while at the present hour so many sons of the Gael arc found among the ablest of our merchants and manufacturers, the period is not far remote when scarcely one of the numerous cadets of the Highland clans would have dreamed of taking up his abode in Lowland Glasgow. To confine a Highland gentleman, a couple of centuries ago, to the drudgery of a shop or a counting-house, or what was worse, to that of a workshop or a manufactory, would have been felt a degradation and a punishment never to be submitted to. The chivalrous spirit of the child of "the mountain and the flood," eschewed disdainfully, at that period, the profitable employment of the shuttle, and everything akin to weaverism and chapmanship. lie felt no reluctance to sell his sword to a foreign power, but he could not condescend to enrich by his industry his own country. The sentiments which Sir Walter Scott has put into the mouth of Hob Roy, were the opinions formerly entertained and acted upon by many a chieftain of the Highlands; and although some time before the Rob Roy period, which the great novelist so well illustrates, the Eldorado blandishments of trade had begun to attract some of the more energetic sons of the mountain to settle on the banks of the Clyde, it was not till some years after the last Rebellion in favour of the Stuarts, that the scions of the Gael were found seated in the high places of Glasgow society.
You can read this book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...w/clubsndx.htm
Commercial Relations of England and Scotland 1603 - 1707
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By Theodora Keith (1910)
This book is a continuation of me trying to tell the story of Scotland and its relationship with England.
We now have up...
I. Union of 1603.
a. Condition of Trade at the Time of the Union
Commodities imported and exported, Organisation of trade, Trade with France, Low Countries, Baltic, Spain, England.
b. Negotiations for Commercial Union
Desire of James for Union, Clauses of Union treaty dealing with commerce, English opposition, Scottish privileges in France, Answers to English objections, Results of negotiations, Restrictions on trade between England and Scotland, 1613-40.
II. 1603-1650.
a. Industry in Scotland
Encouragement by king and council, Cloth manufacture, Regulation of wool supply, Export of coal, Tanning industry, New Industries: linen, soap, sugar, glass, Salt manufacture, Fishing, Decrease of prosperity, 1640-50.
b. Trade with England
Scottish trade hindered by English wars, James's navigation policy in England and Scotland, Intercourse with England, Wool trade, Coal trade, Effect of Bishops' wars on trade, Greenland fishing and English Muscovy Company.
Colonisation and Trade in America
Plantation of Nova Scotia, Conflict with French, Burnett's licence to trade with Virginia.
Colonisation in Ireland
Plantation of Ulster, Trade with settlers.
c. Trade with France, Holland, etc.
Trade with France, Effect of English war with Spain on Scottish trade with the Low Countries and Spain, Trade with Portugal, Baltic trade, Scots settlers and soldiers in Germany.
III. 1650-1660.
Union of England and Scotland under Commonwealth, Condition of country, Imposition of taxation, Revenue and expenses of Scotland, New customs tariff, Prohibitions of export, Scottish import of salt into England, Tax on coal, Trade with England, Effect of the Union on foreign trade, Losses of ships during civil war, Hindrance to trade through Dutch and Spanish wars, Results of Union.
IV. 1660-1707.
Scottish Economic Development
a. Industry
State of country at Restoration, Encouragement of industry by protection, Council of Trade established, Companies established to promote industry, Privileges of companies, Protection against English competition, Poverty of country, Progress in Glasgow, Fishing Company established, Contemporary account of Scotland, Principal exports, Export of linen to England, Act of 1681 for encouraging industry, New companies founded and capital obtained, Legislation regarding export and import of wool and cloth, Cloth manufacture, Linen manufacture, Sugar manufacture, Fishing, Bank of Scotland, Condition of country at beginning of eighteenth century.
b. Trade with England
End of commercial Union, English restrictions on Scottish trade, Scottish retaliation, Negotiations for freedom of trade, 1667, Negotiations for complete Union, 1669, Failure of both, Scottish exports to England: cattle, linen, salt, English exports to Scotland, Smuggling trade in wool, Scottish export of English wool to Continent.
c. Trade with Ireland
You can read these chapters at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...mercialndx.htm
Robert Burns Lives!
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By Frank Shaw
This week we have another arricle entitled "An Unpublished Letter from Burns to Prof James Gregory MD - with an early draft MS of 'On seeing a wounded Hare'" By Prof. David Purdie MD FRCP FSA Scot. Editor, The Burns Encyclopaedia.
Professor David Purdie, originally from Prestwick, Ayrshire and now based in Edinburgh, was educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University. He concluded a medical academic and research career in 2007 and now devotes his time to writing, broadcasting and lecturing. He has had a lifelong interest in the scientific and literary components of the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, particularly on the works of Burns, Scott, Boswell and Hume.
He is the Secretary of the Edinburgh Burns Club, Chairman of the Sir Walter Scott Society, and a parliamentary speechwriter. In 2000 he was selected by the Burns Federation to give the Immortal Memory at the Millennium Burns Supper in Edinburgh. David is Editor-in-Chief of the Burns Encyclopaedia, the new edition of which is being prepared with his co-editors: Drs Gerald Carruthers and Kirsteen McCue of Glasgow University.
The Daily Telegraph says simply that David Purdie is: “Arguably our best after-dinner speaker of the moment”.
Also, along with Hugh Dodd, David published a new book in June of 2010 entitled The Greatest Game - The Ancyent & Healthfulle Exercyse of the Golff with foreword by Colin Montgomerie, which explores the real and fictional history of the game from its foundations in ancient times to the present in humorous prose and brilliant illustrations.
Some years back Professor David Purdie and I came into contact by swapping several emails about Sir Walter Scott. In addition, I sought and received permission several months ago to add his article “What Burns Means to Me” to the Robert Burns Lives! web site, and I have always found David to be a “tower of power”, ready to assist in furthering the cause of either Burns or Scott, my two Scottish heroes.
Earlier this month it was my good fortune to travel to Scotland for the “Burns and Beyond Conference” hosted by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Following my speech, David and I talked about an article he would make available for our web site at the appropriate time in the near future. I can’t help but be thrilled to have a part in making this news available on the internet by sharing with our readers the in-depth article below by Professor Purdie.
Welcome back, David Purdie, the thrill is always ours!
You can read this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...s_lives106.htm
You can also read all the other articles at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...rank/burns.htm
Dr. John McLoughlin
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Father of Oregon by Frederick V. Holman (1907)
To the true, good, brave Oregon Pioneers of 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846, whose coming in the time of joint-occupancy did so much to help save Oregon and assisted in making it what it is today; whose affections and regards for Dr. John McLoughlin and whose remembrances and heartfelt appreciations of his humanity and kindness to them and theirs can and could end only with their deaths, this volume is most respectfully dedicated.
The Preface starts...
This is a plain and simple narrative of the life of Dr. John McLoughlin, and of his noble career in the early history of Oregon. The writing of it is a labor of love on my part, for I am Oregon-born. A number of my near relatives came to Oregon overland in the immigrations of 1843, 1845, and 1846. My father and mother came overland in 1846. The one great theme of the Oregon pioneers was and still is Dr. McLoughlin and his humanity. I came so to know of him that I could almost believe I had known him personally.
He, the father of Oregon, died September third, 1857, yet his memory is as much respected as though his death were of recent occurrence. In Oregon he will never be forgotten. He is known in Oregon by tradition as well as by history. His deeds are a part of the folk-lore of Oregon. His life is an essential part of the early, the heroic days of early Oregon. I know of him from the conversations of pioneers, who loved him, and from the numerous heart-felt expressions at the annual meetings of the Oregon pioneers, beginning with their first meeting. For years I have been collecting and reading books on early Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Coast. I am familiar with many letters and rare documents in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society relating to events in the time of the settlement of Oregon, and containing frequent references to Dr. McLoughlin.
You can read this book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...egon/index.htm
Clan Home Society
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We got in their February 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...slettersd/home
ecollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
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By Dorothy Wordsworth
Those who have long known the poetry of Wordsworth will be no strangers to the existence of this Journal of his sister, which is now for the first time published entire. They will have by heart those few wonderful sentences from it which here and there stand at the head of the Poet’s ‘Memorials of a Tour in Scotland in 1803.’ Especially they will remember that ‘Extract from the Journal of my Companion’ which preludes the ‘Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe,’ and they may sometimes have asked themselves whether the prose of the sister is not as truly poetic and as memorable as her brother’s verse. If they have read the Memoirs of the Poet published by his nephew the Bishop of Lincoln, they will have found there fuller extracts from the Journal, which quite maintain the impression made by the first brief sentences. All true Wordsworthians then will welcome, I believe, the present publication. They will find in it not only new and illustrative light on those Scottish poems which they have so long known, but a faithful commentary on the character of the poet, his mode of life, and the manner of his poetry. Those who from close study of Wordsworth’s poetry know both the poet and his sister, and what they were to each other, will need nothing more than the Journal itself. If it were likely to fall only into their hands, it might be left without one word of comment or illustration. But as it may reach some who have never read Wordsworth, and others who having read do not relish him, for the information of these something more must be said. The Journal now published does not borrow all its worth from its bearing on the great poet. It has merit and value of its own, which may commend it to some who have no heart for Wordsworth’s poetry. For the writer of it was in herself no common woman, and might have secured for herself an independent reputation, had she not chosen rather that other part, to forget and merge herself entirely in the work and reputation of her brother.
This is one of those finds that I stumble upon quite by chance while looking for something else and so am happy to provide this book for you to read which is in text format and obtained through the Project Guttenburg.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/etexts/28880-0.txt
And to finish...
I thought I'd finish by offering you a recipe for Scotch Eggs that came in the Clan Home Newsletter as a great and tasty snack...
I made these at Hogmanay this year...I think I made 18 - and they were gone the next time I passed by the breakfast table! I now understand why they are so expensive - they take patience to make. However, they are GOOD.
You’ll need:
* 6 hard boiled large eggs
* 1 pound bulk sausage
* 1 egg beaten well
* bread crumbs
Hard boil the eggs and remove the shells.
Divide the bulk sausage into six patties.
Flatten the sausage patties and put 1 boiled egg in the center of each sausage pattie.
Wrap the sausage around the eggs, forming a ball.
Chill the sausage-wrapped eggs at least one hour.
Dip the sausage wrapped eggs into the beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs.
You may finish these one of two ways: first - cook in a heavy skillet in a small amount of oil, turning them constantly so they will cook evenly. This will take about half an hour.
Secondly, you may cook them about 20 minutes in the skillet and then bake them for another 20 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
And I might add that I've also seen them cooked in the deep fat fryers for around 20 minutes. They are great both hot and cold and great for picnics.
Should you happen to like a particular type of sausage you can simply take the skin off them and mould them into the flattened patties. The sausage should be around half an inch thick round the egg but can be a bit less or bit more depending on how much you like sausage.
And we have a recipe for how to make Scottish Sliced Sausage that Elda sent us in ages ago and which can also be used for the above recipe and you can see it at http://www.electricscotland.com/food.../sssausage.htm
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
http://www.electricscotland.com
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Geikie's Etchings
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Glencreggan: or A Highland Home in Cantire
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits
The Lairds of Glenlyon: Historical Sketches
Traditions of Perth
Glasgow and it's Clubs
Commercial Relations of England and Scotland 1603 - 1707
Robert Burns Lives!
Dr. John McLoughlin - Father of Oregon (New Book)
Clan Home Society
ecollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
Electric Scotland News
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I got a note in telling me that my good friend Neil Fraser was taken to hospital for an emergency operation. He is also battling cancer so all in all having a tough time of it.
He has taken the time though to ask me to help promote an event which I am more than happy to do...
Dear friends, fellow pipers and supporters,
It's just about a week before my feature documentary, ON THE DAY: The Story of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band, screens in 53 Cineplex and Empire Theatres across Canada. The premiere is on February 9 and an encore screening is set for February 13. All tickets are $9.99 and groups of 20 or more get in for $8.99. As most of you know, making this movie was an arduous task for me, and only possible because of the support I received from the piping and Scottish communities around the world. You can additionally show your support by purchasing a movie ticket.
The film will be screened in full HD and has been mixed in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound for this special theatrical release. Having been to the World Pipe Band Championships on four occasions, I can say that this is BETTER than being there. If you live in Canada, don't miss this unique event. If you know people in Canada, please buy them a ticket as a gift. Let's see if we can fill up every seat and show that there is an audience out there for the music we all love so much. See you at the cinema!
List of participating theatres is attached. Order tickets [HERE] for Cineplex, SilverCity, Galaxy and Colossus Theatres. Order tickets [HERE] for Empire Theatres. Check for updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks,
John McDonald
Producer/Director
ON THE DAY
http://onthedaymovie.com
I'd also like to take this opportunity to wish Neil well with his recovery. Neil as you may know is the Canadian representative of Clan Fraser. By the time you read this he will likely have been moved to the Trauma and Neurosurgery In-Patient Unit, 9th Floor, Cardinal Carter Central, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1E8.
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I also got in a request to publicise an online course in modern Scottish history from 1707 onwards...
Our new MSc History (Modern Scottish History) will be taught via distance learning. This innovative on-line History Masters programme is the first in Scotland to focus exclusively on the modern history of this country, during a period of dynamic transformation and rediscovery.
The programme is headed by Professor Catriona MacDonald, who recently won the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award at the Saltire Society Awards in Edinburgh on the 29th November, for her book ‘Whaur Extremes Meet’ (2009).
http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/4153
Read more about this course at http://www.electricscotland.org/show...-Online-Course
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Originally founded in 1989 as a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the coming of the first group of Highland Scots to North Carolina, the "Our Scottish Heritage" Symposium has provided an unparalleled opportunity for persons interested in Scottish and Scottish-American history and culture to learn from top scholars in their fields. The Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Symposium provides a forum for study and interaction for anyone interested in Scottish history, culture, and tradition.
The 2011 Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Symposium is on March 18-20, 2011
For more details visit http://www.sapc.edu/shc/scottishheritagesymposium.php
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As I mentioned in a previous newsletter we're working on bringing you an Amazon Shopping Mall. The first take at this will include the USA, Canadian and UK stores and we may add others later depending on requests.
There are three reasons for doing this... first it's because I learnt that Amazon is expanding in the UK and that has resulted in 950 new jobs for Scotland as their UK operations are based in Scotland. There is also the potential to add a further 1500 part time jobs. So as their success brings actual jobs to Scotland we thought it would be worth promoting them.
The second reason is that we get numerous requests from Scottish authors and other authors writing about Scotland and the Scots to help promote their books and for that matter DVD's and CD's and other products. That being the case we will make a point of featuring their products in the stores and thus hopefully help to promote them.
And of course as we earn some commission from any sales it will hopefully generate some income for us to both help defray the costs of working on this and perhaps even a wee profit contribution for the site.
And so if you are a Scottish author or music or video producer or are producing products about Scotland then feel free to get in touch and let us know about them as long as they are available on the Amazon stores of the USA, UK or Canada.
To help us cut down the work to build this we are purchasing a dedicated script to handle the Amazon shopping mall and the way it works is that you should be able to do all your purchases on our site but when you go to the checkout to complete your purchase you'll be sent to Amazon's own checkout page to complete your purchases meaning that Amazon themselves will do the financial transactions and the shipping of your products.
There are in fact three possible scripts we can use for this and Steve is evaluatiing each of them for both design and functionality. We hope to make the decision on which script to use by next week and then we'll purchase it and get working on it and so we hope to have this available by the end of the month.
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Had real problems this week as I got a Trojan on my computer and it took around 36 hours of work to get rid of it. That really meant I could do no work on my computer until the problem was resolved.
As an observation only this Trojan came onto my computer through a Porn site. And no I didn't visit it intentionally :-) I find if you are trying to do research on a womens name it's amazing how often you get links to porn sites. That really doesn't happen if you are researching mens names.
I will say that my Macafee program did spot it but it said I had to navigate to the folder, arrange to share it and only then could they remove it. The fact that it didn't actally give the folder name was both unhelpful but also worrying as I'm getting highly suspicious these days. Was it really the Macafee progran telling me this or was it the Trojan trying to get better access to my computer?
Anyway... as usual these days I went through my iYogi support folk and after the first attempt at removal I found it hadn't worked. I then went back and they did more work and thought they'd got it fixed this time. well I thought to be extra sure I'd run the full scan with Macaffee and found it wouldn't run. And so back to iYogi. They fixed that problem and it now looked like all was well. I decided before I did anything else I'd do a full backup and system image backup only to find some 2 hours later that it had failed. So I decided to reformat my external hard disk to ensure it wasn't a hard disk issue. I then tried again and got the same error,,. couldn't read the system image copy.
And so it was back to iYogi for the fourth time. This time I got escalated to the next level of support. As you may know to fix things they actually take control of your computer and you just watch as they do whatever. Well this time the chap was going to places on my computer that I didn't even know existed. Anyway... this time they fixed it and I was able to get my backup done.
As you may know doing virus scans and anti-malware scans and backups all take hours to do so it was quite an exhausting 36 hours I had to go through to get everything back.
ABOUT THE STORIES
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Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/rss/whatsnew.php
Electric Scotland Community
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We're working behind the scenes on bringing you a greatly upgraded service which will continue to provide our forums but will surround them by lots of new facilities. We don't yet have a time scale for this as it's a complex system to setup and we want to do some good testing before we launch it. I must say I'm quite excited about bringing the community to the next level. It's getting much closer to the type of community I envisaged some 8 years ago now.
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org/forum.php
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
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This weeks issue is now available Compiled by Jennifer Dunn in which she has done 2 good articles which discuss on the one hand the state of education in Glasgow and the other being a discussion on whether prisoners should get a vote. As a bit of a departure this issue doesn't have a Synopsis.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Geikie's Etchings
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This week we've added more etchings...
The Shoe Stand
A Youthful Artist
Reading A Tract
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ikie/index.htm
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
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And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 3 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've added...
Battle Of The Grampians - 84
Battle Of Dalree - 1306
You can read these accounts at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Glencreggan: or A Highland Home in Cantire
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By Cuthbert Bede (1861)
This week we've started Volume 2 with...
Chapter XX - Grouse-Land
Highland Herd-girl. — Her pastoral Charge. — Not cowed by Bulls. — Highland Cattle. — Stots and Kyloes. — Rosa Bonheur. — Highland Raids. — "Winter Beef. — A sharp-witted Lad. — Highland Rams. —
Auld Hornie. — Scotch Mulls. — The Collie — His Attainments and Duties — Some wondrous Anecdotes thereupon. — Shooting. — GameBags. — True Sport versus Battue Slaughter. — Gentlemen not Gamekeepers. — The Pleasures of Grouse-shooting. — St. Grouse vindicated. — The Fox-hunting of shooting.
You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glencreggan/
Kay's Edinburgh Portraits
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A Series of Anecdotal Biographies chiefly of Scotchmen, Mostly by James Paterson and Edited by James Maidment (1885)
This week we have added...
John Wright, Lecturer on Law
James Marshall, Esq., Writer to the Signet
Sir James Grant, Bart., of Grant
Dr. Alexander Munro, Secundus, Professor of Anatomy
The Rev. John Kemp, D.D., of the Tolbooth Church
Here is a great wee story from the account of James Marshall...
This is a striking etching of a somewhat eccentric yet active man of business—one of the few specimens of the old school who survived the close of last century. The smart gait—the quick eye—aquiline nose—compressed lips—the silver spectacles, carelessly thrown upwards—the cocked hat firmly crowning the old black wig—and the robust appearance of the whole figure, at once bespeak the strong nerve and decisive character of the original.
Almost every sexagenarian in Edinburgh must recollect Mr. James Marshall, Writer to the Signet. He was a native of Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, and made his debut upon the stage of life in the year 1731. From his having become a writer to the signet at a period when that society was more select than it is at present, we may fairly presume that his parents were respectable, and possessed of at least some portion of the good things of this world.
Mr. Marshall was both an arduous and acute man of business; but he possessed one accomplishment that might have been dispensed with, for he was one of the most profound swearers of his day; so much so, that few could possibly compete with him. Every sentence he uttered had its characteristic oath ; and, if there was any degree of wit at all in the numerous jokes which his exuberance of animal spirits suggested, it certainly lay in the peculiar magniloquent manner in which he displayed his "flowers of eloquence." As true chroniclers, however, we must not omit recording a circumstance which, notwithstanding this most reprehensible habit, does considerable credit to the heart of the heathen lawyer. One day the poor washerwoman whom he employed appeared at his office in Milne's Square, with her head attired in a mourning coif, and her countenance unusually rueful. "What—what is the matter, Janet?" said the writer, in his usual quick manner. Janet replied, in faltering accents, that she had lost her gudeman. "Lost your man!" said Marshall; at the same time throwing up his spectacles, as if to understand the matter more thoroughly, "How the d------did that happen?" Janet then stated the melancholy occurrence by which she had been bereaved. It seems that at that time extensive buildings were going on about the head of Leith Walk; and, from the nature of the ground, the foundations of many of them were exceedingly deep. Janet's husband had fallen, in the dark, into one of the excavations—which had been either imperfectly railed in, or left unguarded—and, from the injuries sustained, he died almost immediately. Marshall patiently listened to the tale, rendered doubly long by the agitated feelings of the narrator; and, as the last syllable faltered on her tongue, out burst the usual exclamation, but with more than wonted emphasis—"The b------s, I'll make them pay for your gudeman!"
No sooner said than done: away he hurried to the scene of the accident—inspected the state of the excavation—and, having satisfied himself as to all the circumstances of the case, and the liability of the contractors, he instantly wrote to them, demanding two hundred pounds as an indemnity to the bereaved widow. No attention having been paid to his letter, he immediately raised an action before the Supreme Court, concluding for heavy damages; and, from the active and determined manner in which he went about it, soon convinced his opponents that he was in earnest. The defenders became alarmed at the consequences, and were induced to wait upon Mr. Marshall with the view of compounding the matter, by paying the original demand of two hundred pounds. "Na, na, ye b------s! " was the lawyer's reply; "that sum would have been taken had ye come forward at first, like gentlemen, and settled wi' the puir body; but now (adding another oath) three times the sum'll no stop the proceedings." Finding Marshall inexorable, another, and yet another hundred was offered—not even five hundred would satisfy the lawyer. Ultimately the parties were glad to accede to his own terms; and it is said he obtained, in this way, upwards of seven hundred pounds as a solatium for the "lost gudeman"—all of which he handed over to his client, who was thus probably made more comfortable by the death of her husband than she had ever been during his life.
You can read the rest of this account at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/kays/vol155.htm
The other entries can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/kays/index.htm
The Lairds of Glenlyon: Historical Sketches
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Relating to the Districts of Appin, Glenlyon and Breadalbane by Duncan Campbell (1886)
We have now completed this book by adding chapter 31 and the Appendix
There are actually some very good wee stories in the Appendix so well worth a read.
The chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...lyon/index.htm
Traditions of Perth
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Containing Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants during the last century by George Penny (1836)
We've now added Pages Pages 95 to 113 and information in these pages are mostly to do with the legal syste, whippings and capital punishment.
You can get to these pages at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/perth/
Glasgow and it's Clubs
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Or Glimpses of Conditions, Manners, Characters and Oddities of the City By John Strang LL.D. (1857)
This week we've added "Highland Immigration and Highland Hospitality—Gaelic Club".
It is perhaps strange to say that, while at the present hour so many sons of the Gael arc found among the ablest of our merchants and manufacturers, the period is not far remote when scarcely one of the numerous cadets of the Highland clans would have dreamed of taking up his abode in Lowland Glasgow. To confine a Highland gentleman, a couple of centuries ago, to the drudgery of a shop or a counting-house, or what was worse, to that of a workshop or a manufactory, would have been felt a degradation and a punishment never to be submitted to. The chivalrous spirit of the child of "the mountain and the flood," eschewed disdainfully, at that period, the profitable employment of the shuttle, and everything akin to weaverism and chapmanship. lie felt no reluctance to sell his sword to a foreign power, but he could not condescend to enrich by his industry his own country. The sentiments which Sir Walter Scott has put into the mouth of Hob Roy, were the opinions formerly entertained and acted upon by many a chieftain of the Highlands; and although some time before the Rob Roy period, which the great novelist so well illustrates, the Eldorado blandishments of trade had begun to attract some of the more energetic sons of the mountain to settle on the banks of the Clyde, it was not till some years after the last Rebellion in favour of the Stuarts, that the scions of the Gael were found seated in the high places of Glasgow society.
You can read this book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...w/clubsndx.htm
Commercial Relations of England and Scotland 1603 - 1707
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By Theodora Keith (1910)
This book is a continuation of me trying to tell the story of Scotland and its relationship with England.
We now have up...
I. Union of 1603.
a. Condition of Trade at the Time of the Union
Commodities imported and exported, Organisation of trade, Trade with France, Low Countries, Baltic, Spain, England.
b. Negotiations for Commercial Union
Desire of James for Union, Clauses of Union treaty dealing with commerce, English opposition, Scottish privileges in France, Answers to English objections, Results of negotiations, Restrictions on trade between England and Scotland, 1613-40.
II. 1603-1650.
a. Industry in Scotland
Encouragement by king and council, Cloth manufacture, Regulation of wool supply, Export of coal, Tanning industry, New Industries: linen, soap, sugar, glass, Salt manufacture, Fishing, Decrease of prosperity, 1640-50.
b. Trade with England
Scottish trade hindered by English wars, James's navigation policy in England and Scotland, Intercourse with England, Wool trade, Coal trade, Effect of Bishops' wars on trade, Greenland fishing and English Muscovy Company.
Colonisation and Trade in America
Plantation of Nova Scotia, Conflict with French, Burnett's licence to trade with Virginia.
Colonisation in Ireland
Plantation of Ulster, Trade with settlers.
c. Trade with France, Holland, etc.
Trade with France, Effect of English war with Spain on Scottish trade with the Low Countries and Spain, Trade with Portugal, Baltic trade, Scots settlers and soldiers in Germany.
III. 1650-1660.
Union of England and Scotland under Commonwealth, Condition of country, Imposition of taxation, Revenue and expenses of Scotland, New customs tariff, Prohibitions of export, Scottish import of salt into England, Tax on coal, Trade with England, Effect of the Union on foreign trade, Losses of ships during civil war, Hindrance to trade through Dutch and Spanish wars, Results of Union.
IV. 1660-1707.
Scottish Economic Development
a. Industry
State of country at Restoration, Encouragement of industry by protection, Council of Trade established, Companies established to promote industry, Privileges of companies, Protection against English competition, Poverty of country, Progress in Glasgow, Fishing Company established, Contemporary account of Scotland, Principal exports, Export of linen to England, Act of 1681 for encouraging industry, New companies founded and capital obtained, Legislation regarding export and import of wool and cloth, Cloth manufacture, Linen manufacture, Sugar manufacture, Fishing, Bank of Scotland, Condition of country at beginning of eighteenth century.
b. Trade with England
End of commercial Union, English restrictions on Scottish trade, Scottish retaliation, Negotiations for freedom of trade, 1667, Negotiations for complete Union, 1669, Failure of both, Scottish exports to England: cattle, linen, salt, English exports to Scotland, Smuggling trade in wool, Scottish export of English wool to Continent.
c. Trade with Ireland
You can read these chapters at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...mercialndx.htm
Robert Burns Lives!
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By Frank Shaw
This week we have another arricle entitled "An Unpublished Letter from Burns to Prof James Gregory MD - with an early draft MS of 'On seeing a wounded Hare'" By Prof. David Purdie MD FRCP FSA Scot. Editor, The Burns Encyclopaedia.
Professor David Purdie, originally from Prestwick, Ayrshire and now based in Edinburgh, was educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University. He concluded a medical academic and research career in 2007 and now devotes his time to writing, broadcasting and lecturing. He has had a lifelong interest in the scientific and literary components of the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment, particularly on the works of Burns, Scott, Boswell and Hume.
He is the Secretary of the Edinburgh Burns Club, Chairman of the Sir Walter Scott Society, and a parliamentary speechwriter. In 2000 he was selected by the Burns Federation to give the Immortal Memory at the Millennium Burns Supper in Edinburgh. David is Editor-in-Chief of the Burns Encyclopaedia, the new edition of which is being prepared with his co-editors: Drs Gerald Carruthers and Kirsteen McCue of Glasgow University.
The Daily Telegraph says simply that David Purdie is: “Arguably our best after-dinner speaker of the moment”.
Also, along with Hugh Dodd, David published a new book in June of 2010 entitled The Greatest Game - The Ancyent & Healthfulle Exercyse of the Golff with foreword by Colin Montgomerie, which explores the real and fictional history of the game from its foundations in ancient times to the present in humorous prose and brilliant illustrations.
Some years back Professor David Purdie and I came into contact by swapping several emails about Sir Walter Scott. In addition, I sought and received permission several months ago to add his article “What Burns Means to Me” to the Robert Burns Lives! web site, and I have always found David to be a “tower of power”, ready to assist in furthering the cause of either Burns or Scott, my two Scottish heroes.
Earlier this month it was my good fortune to travel to Scotland for the “Burns and Beyond Conference” hosted by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Following my speech, David and I talked about an article he would make available for our web site at the appropriate time in the near future. I can’t help but be thrilled to have a part in making this news available on the internet by sharing with our readers the in-depth article below by Professor Purdie.
Welcome back, David Purdie, the thrill is always ours!
You can read this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...s_lives106.htm
You can also read all the other articles at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...rank/burns.htm
Dr. John McLoughlin
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Father of Oregon by Frederick V. Holman (1907)
To the true, good, brave Oregon Pioneers of 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846, whose coming in the time of joint-occupancy did so much to help save Oregon and assisted in making it what it is today; whose affections and regards for Dr. John McLoughlin and whose remembrances and heartfelt appreciations of his humanity and kindness to them and theirs can and could end only with their deaths, this volume is most respectfully dedicated.
The Preface starts...
This is a plain and simple narrative of the life of Dr. John McLoughlin, and of his noble career in the early history of Oregon. The writing of it is a labor of love on my part, for I am Oregon-born. A number of my near relatives came to Oregon overland in the immigrations of 1843, 1845, and 1846. My father and mother came overland in 1846. The one great theme of the Oregon pioneers was and still is Dr. McLoughlin and his humanity. I came so to know of him that I could almost believe I had known him personally.
He, the father of Oregon, died September third, 1857, yet his memory is as much respected as though his death were of recent occurrence. In Oregon he will never be forgotten. He is known in Oregon by tradition as well as by history. His deeds are a part of the folk-lore of Oregon. His life is an essential part of the early, the heroic days of early Oregon. I know of him from the conversations of pioneers, who loved him, and from the numerous heart-felt expressions at the annual meetings of the Oregon pioneers, beginning with their first meeting. For years I have been collecting and reading books on early Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Coast. I am familiar with many letters and rare documents in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society relating to events in the time of the settlement of Oregon, and containing frequent references to Dr. McLoughlin.
You can read this book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...egon/index.htm
Clan Home Society
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We got in their February 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...slettersd/home
ecollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
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By Dorothy Wordsworth
Those who have long known the poetry of Wordsworth will be no strangers to the existence of this Journal of his sister, which is now for the first time published entire. They will have by heart those few wonderful sentences from it which here and there stand at the head of the Poet’s ‘Memorials of a Tour in Scotland in 1803.’ Especially they will remember that ‘Extract from the Journal of my Companion’ which preludes the ‘Address to Kilchurn Castle upon Loch Awe,’ and they may sometimes have asked themselves whether the prose of the sister is not as truly poetic and as memorable as her brother’s verse. If they have read the Memoirs of the Poet published by his nephew the Bishop of Lincoln, they will have found there fuller extracts from the Journal, which quite maintain the impression made by the first brief sentences. All true Wordsworthians then will welcome, I believe, the present publication. They will find in it not only new and illustrative light on those Scottish poems which they have so long known, but a faithful commentary on the character of the poet, his mode of life, and the manner of his poetry. Those who from close study of Wordsworth’s poetry know both the poet and his sister, and what they were to each other, will need nothing more than the Journal itself. If it were likely to fall only into their hands, it might be left without one word of comment or illustration. But as it may reach some who have never read Wordsworth, and others who having read do not relish him, for the information of these something more must be said. The Journal now published does not borrow all its worth from its bearing on the great poet. It has merit and value of its own, which may commend it to some who have no heart for Wordsworth’s poetry. For the writer of it was in herself no common woman, and might have secured for herself an independent reputation, had she not chosen rather that other part, to forget and merge herself entirely in the work and reputation of her brother.
This is one of those finds that I stumble upon quite by chance while looking for something else and so am happy to provide this book for you to read which is in text format and obtained through the Project Guttenburg.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/etexts/28880-0.txt
And to finish...
I thought I'd finish by offering you a recipe for Scotch Eggs that came in the Clan Home Newsletter as a great and tasty snack...
I made these at Hogmanay this year...I think I made 18 - and they were gone the next time I passed by the breakfast table! I now understand why they are so expensive - they take patience to make. However, they are GOOD.
You’ll need:
* 6 hard boiled large eggs
* 1 pound bulk sausage
* 1 egg beaten well
* bread crumbs
Hard boil the eggs and remove the shells.
Divide the bulk sausage into six patties.
Flatten the sausage patties and put 1 boiled egg in the center of each sausage pattie.
Wrap the sausage around the eggs, forming a ball.
Chill the sausage-wrapped eggs at least one hour.
Dip the sausage wrapped eggs into the beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs.
You may finish these one of two ways: first - cook in a heavy skillet in a small amount of oil, turning them constantly so they will cook evenly. This will take about half an hour.
Secondly, you may cook them about 20 minutes in the skillet and then bake them for another 20 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
And I might add that I've also seen them cooked in the deep fat fryers for around 20 minutes. They are great both hot and cold and great for picnics.
Should you happen to like a particular type of sausage you can simply take the skin off them and mould them into the flattened patties. The sausage should be around half an inch thick round the egg but can be a bit less or bit more depending on how much you like sausage.
And we have a recipe for how to make Scottish Sliced Sausage that Elda sent us in ages ago and which can also be used for the above recipe and you can see it at http://www.electricscotland.com/food.../sssausage.htm
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
http://www.electricscotland.com
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