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Spinning a Scottish Yarn: The Reverend David Dickson Part Three The Covenant & Glasgow
Posted on June 28, 2026 Leave a Comment
The following excerpts provide a timeline of DICKSON’s activities from 1638 to about 1650. They are pieced together from various sources. Roughly covering his last years at Irvine through his tenure at Glasgow University. There are many excerpts from correspondence between David DICKSON and Robert BAILLIE. Just looking at the places he traveled to gives […]
Spinning a Scottish Yarn: The Reverend David Dickson Part Two Irvine
Posted on June 22, 2026 1 Comment
In part one we visited David DICKSON’s early life in Glasgow. The next part of the story Begins in Irvine where David DICKSON was a minister for 23 years. Be forewarned it took an unexpected twist. I am grateful to Ian DICKSON (no relation) and Billy KERR for allowing me to quote from their work […]
Spinning a Scottish Yarn: The Reverend David Dickson Part One Beginnings in Glasgow and Busby
Posted on June 20, 2026 2 Comments
Storaidhnean farsaig: in Scots Gaelic storaidhnean is a story or tale and farsaig : wide, extensive or broad. Roughly translated an expansive tale. This may turn out to be Storaidhnean farsaig. INTRODUCTION As I often do when getting ready for a trip I try my hand at researching my own families that may intersect with […]
Things Treasured, Things Loved
Posted on June 19, 2026 Leave a Comment
“To love abundantly is to live life abundantly , and to love forever is to live forever.” Henry DRUMMOND On the way to teach my genealogy class this morning an interview of the poet, Kevin YOUNG, is playing on NPR. The host asks YOUNG: ” Do you feel the dead are around you? Do you […]
They Came to America: The Immigrant Experience
Posted on November 22, 2025 8 Comments
The loved ones we call the dead, depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. They enter our dreams.We feel they have been near us when we have not thought of them.They are simply here, simply waiting while we are […]
Heirlooms Gone, but not Forgotten
Posted on February 13, 2022 8 Comments
We keep some things so close, that even though we do not own them, they are never far away. The things that are indelible. The things that in a millisecond transport you back to the beginnings of our time, upon this earth. Their texture, fragrance, as close to you now as they were then, a […]
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