By
Hamish MacPherson
Back in the Day
'I have long considered it a national disgrace that we do not do more to promote Robert Burns as Scotland’s gift to the world'
REGULAR readers may recall that I asked for people to email me about local history and heritage projects, and already I have a backlog, though please keep sending them to the above address.
The latest in this occasional series is a local project with national implications, for in this case it involves one of the homes of our National Bard, Robert Burns.
I have long considered it a national disgrace that we do not do more to promote Robert Burns as Scotland’s gift to the world. Given his connections to places across the country, it mystifies me why there is no nationally co-ordinated trail that would take you from his birthplace of Alloway in Ayrshire to his mausoleum in Dumfries via the many locations attached to Burns.