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10 Oct 2008
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Yearning for the Land: A Search for the Importance of Place
What does landscape mean to us? How does it shape our sense of “rootedness” to place and connection to community? Can that sense and that connection enrich us in the same manner as having knowledge of our familial lineage? Landscape historian John Warfield Simpson sets out to answer these questions by following the journey of the great conservationist John Muir from his homeland along the North Sea coast in East Lothian County, Scotland, to his family’s adopted home in the fields and forests of Marquette County, Wisconsin. Along the way he discovers much about himself; and we, in turn, can learn much about ourselves.
In 1849 the Muirs immigrated from East Lothian to the wilds of central Wisconsin in search of religious and economic opportunity. What concept of land did they and millions of others from the Old World leave behind, and what did they find in their New World homes? Simpson physically retraces the Muirs’ journey, as he delves into the meaning and importance of place. He speaks with estate owners and tenant farmers in Scotland who have centuries-long ties to the land they own or work; to Wisconsin farmers for whom one hundred years measures a profound connection to place; and to Native Americans working to reclaim the land they lost to white pioneers like the Muirs and to the author’s own Scottish ancestors. Among all of these people Simpson discovers a powerful link between personal and communal history, and a deep connection to the land on which they have been played out.
Time and history, landscape and community, are tightly intertwined, Simpson learns. Roots matter, he discovers, in his adopted home of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Author: John W. Simpson
Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Pantheon (2002-09-24) (2002-09-24)
ISBN: 037542086X
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What does landscape mean to us? How does it shape our sense of “rootedness” to place and connection to community? Can that sense and that connection enrich us in the same manner as having knowledge of our familial lineage? Landscape historian John Warfield Simpson sets out to answer these questions by following the journey of the great conservationist John Muir from his homeland along the North Sea coast in East Lothian County, Scotland, to his family’s adopted home in the fields and forests of Marquette County, Wisconsin. Along the way he discovers much about himself; and we, in turn, can learn much about ourselves.In 1849 the Muirs immigrated from East Lothian to the wilds of central Wisconsin in search of religious and economic opportunity. What concept of land did they and millions of others from the Old World leave behind, and what did they find in their New World homes? Simpson physically retraces the Muirs’ journey, as he delves into the meaning and importance of place. He speaks with estate owners and tenant farmers in Scotland who have centuries-long ties to the land they own or work; to Wisconsin farmers for whom one hundred years measures a profound connection to place; and to Native Americans working to reclaim the land they lost to white pioneers like the Muirs and to the author’s own Scottish ancestors. Among all of these people Simpson discovers a powerful link between personal and communal history, and a deep connection to the land on which they have been played out.
Time and history, landscape and community, are tightly intertwined, Simpson learns. Roots matter, he discovers, in his adopted home of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Author: John W. Simpson
Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Pantheon (2002-09-24) (2002-09-24)
ISBN: 037542086X
List Price: $24.00
Amazon Price: $4.75
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Conservation area designation: Drem, East Saltoun, and New Winton
Author: East Lothian (Scotland)
Unknown Binding: Import
Company: The Council (1991)
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Goodnight My Servants All: The Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft
"A treasury of primary material about cases of witchcraft in East Lothian. This marvellous, vast compendium of transcribed documentation, with useful annotation and perceptive commentary, is a most welcome contribution to the study of Scottish witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. Seasoned academic scholars of witchcraft will find much useful, challenging material - and read of witches and witchcraft cases that they have never come across before. Even with some familiarity with the cases that the author presents, it is fascinating to read different accounts given by different witnesses of the same case and the same alleged incidents. In addition to the annotated transcriptions there is a summary of James VI and I's short treatise on witchcraft, in the form of a dialogue, called: Daemonologie. And a long, closing chapter on the analysis and interpretation of witchcraft in East Lothian. I might not agree with every single claim that David Robertson makes - but I can heartily endorse the general tenor and commendable balance of his judgement. He says: 'We must avoid the "all or nothing" attitude, where either everything is true or everything is a farrago of ludicrous nonsense.We can accept what is probable, dismiss what is clearly impossible, but we should keep an open mind on the admittedly vast area in between'. That is an appropriate attitude with which to approach this remarkable and very fine book." -- from the Introduction by Hugh V. McLachlan
Author: David M. Robertson
Paperback: 584 pages
Company: The Grimsay Press (2007-12-06)
ISBN: 1845300416
List Price: $70.00
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"A treasury of primary material about cases of witchcraft in East Lothian. This marvellous, vast compendium of transcribed documentation, with useful annotation and perceptive commentary, is a most welcome contribution to the study of Scottish witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. Seasoned academic scholars of witchcraft will find much useful, challenging material - and read of witches and witchcraft cases that they have never come across before. Even with some familiarity with the cases that the author presents, it is fascinating to read different accounts given by different witnesses of the same case and the same alleged incidents. In addition to the annotated transcriptions there is a summary of James VI and I's short treatise on witchcraft, in the form of a dialogue, called: Daemonologie. And a long, closing chapter on the analysis and interpretation of witchcraft in East Lothian. I might not agree with every single claim that David Robertson makes - but I can heartily endorse the general tenor and commendable balance of his judgement. He says: 'We must avoid the "all or nothing" attitude, where either everything is true or everything is a farrago of ludicrous nonsense.We can accept what is probable, dismiss what is clearly impossible, but we should keep an open mind on the admittedly vast area in between'. That is an appropriate attitude with which to approach this remarkable and very fine book." -- from the Introduction by Hugh V. McLachlanAuthor: David M. Robertson
Paperback: 584 pages
Company: The Grimsay Press (2007-12-06)
ISBN: 1845300416
List Price: $70.00
Amazon Price: $58.31
Used Price: $67.25
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Resolved Question: Scottish MP for East Lothian,Anne Moffat was mugged by a gang of youths! She said"They are the Scum of Society
What does her comment tell you about the Race and Colour of her attackers?
Obviously,they were NOT black, NOR Gypsies,NOR Muslims!
Otherwise they would not be called "Scum"
She would be too frightened of the Politically Correct whingeing if they'd been OTHER THAN WHITE!
Just shows what you can call "Honkies"! Dunnit?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article4010271.ece
Hi Gar
I see your point
1. they obviously weren't black1
2. If they had been Muslims they would have been recognised by wearing their faces upside-down
3. Anne Moffat,being a Jock bitch,probably shouted the first words that came into her mind:-" English b*stards!"
Hi Maxi, indeed they didn't say white muggers. BUT,my whole point IS ! From her use of the word "Scum" they MUST be white.......No-one else except a white can be called SCUM!
The point that I am Making IS! If her attackers had belonged to one of Labour's "Protected species" : Blacks, Muslims, Gypsies,or Immigrants thenAnne Moffat would NOT have DARED to call them "Scum"
Scum cannot be used when you are referring to a so-called "persecuted minority!"
What I am implying IS that you can tell the "Group" from which the muggers come by their description used by the politically correct!
Mugged by Gypsies :You can't blame them because Hitler persecuted them!
Mugged by Illegal Immigrant gang: They were persecuted back home (for Mugging)
Mugged by Muslims: They were NOT Muslims because the Koran doesn't preach Mugging
NO Labour MP would dare to use the word "Scum" in reference to one of these "New Aristocracy" of Minorities!
Hi Michele S
That is the point I was making (in a bit of a round-about way)
NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! Would she have Dared to refer to them as "Scum" UNLESS they had been WHITE!
Every one else is a Friggin' victim!
And excuses must be made for their behaviour.
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Resolved Question: Labour MP Mugged And Beaten...?
Did anyone feel a sense of schadenfreude when they heard this news about the Labour MP being mugged and beaten? Are Labour still 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime'?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7419398.stm
Police have launched an investigation after Labour MP Anne Moffat was attacked, BBC Scotland has learned.
Ms Moffat said she was mugged by a gang of drunken youths and left with broken ribs while jogging near her home, in Cockenzie, East Lothian.
The East Lothian MP was knocked unconscious and her watch and jewellery taken by her attackers.
She was treated in hospital in Edinburgh after the incident on Friday and branded her attackers "scum".
El Tel - apparently there is a village missing an idiot. Should I let them know where you are?
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