Tuesday, November 24, 2009

News at Eleven: Walking through the simple abode,

you can almost hear [Robert] Burn's mother, Agnes, gently singing one traditional Scots song after another to her eldest boy, and her cousin, Betty Davidson, holding Burns spellbound with tales of ghosts and witches.

Next on your list must be Kirk Alloway and its graveyard. Burns loved this old church--already in ruins in his time--so much he buried his father in its grounds, and it is the inspiration for his most famous poem, Tam o'Shanter.

from Malaysia Star: His legacy burns on

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