Comments on: Brigadoonery or Tradition, Scotching the Scottish Myths.

By: Allan Hewitson

Allan Hewitson — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:09:00 +0000

I’m now living in Kitimat in Northern B.C. Canada — and I’m 73 — but these memories have been reinforced by numerous visits to Alloway, Burns Cottage and all the memorials in the area. The most recent was 2012…

By: Allan Hewitson

Allan Hewitson — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:07:04 +0000

Whereas Brig o’ Doon, is the bridge over which Tam o’Shanter fled from witches cavorting in the auld church cemetery at Alloway, the home of Robert Burns.

When I was a schoolboy at Ayr Grammar School we spent a school term (no some unremembered reason) at Alloway School and the bus stop was just before the Aud Kirk — and I can assure you we all scampered past quickly going and coming from school…

By: Roger Clarke

Roger Clarke — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 16:17:51 +0000

For those not old enough to remember

Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical film based on an older Broadway show. The story was written by Lerner and Loewe The film stared Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse. Total fiction Brigadoon, was not even filmed in Scotland, is a village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day and the hero falls in love, leaves and tries to get back to his love.
Could’nt have been a real Scot at the Chicago dinner can’t imagine one dissapointing the ‘haggis lassie’