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So why did Argyll refuse the This Is Who We Are exhibition?
There is another side to ‘who we are’: unmotivated, uninventive, unenthused, unambitious, perhaps demoralised. This negative tendency just booted into touch a proposal that the This Is Who We Are...
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This Is Who We Are
We’re about to describe a journey so start seeing it in your head. The first step is a drive east to Calgary, then north to Airdrie, back south to Calgary, then north west to Banff and south west...
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This Is Who We Are – photographs from the journeys to find out
For Argyll has published a feature article – This Is Who We Are – on the exhibition of that name, the most inspirational of the main Homecoming Scotland 2009 commissions. Its creators are Graeme...
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Invitation to Argyll
For Argyll has just published a series of articles to do with the powerful This Is Who We Are photographic exhibition, exploring life in places in Canada and Scotland linked by similar names.The...
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Argyll and British Columbia – HMS Discovery, Archibald Menzies and the...
Scotland’s Year of Homecoming has generated an extraordinary degree of interest in the idea of ‘journeying’. For instance, several new biographies of Robert Burns have been published recently which...
View ArticleFinding David Douglas film premiere for Pitlochry
A Perthshire adventurer comes home to Pitlochry on celluloid - a Big Tree man for the Big Tree Country. You’ve heard of the Douglas Fir?Finding David Douglas is an hour-long documentary on the...
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Vancouver 2010: Scotland posted missing
‘Why is Scotland not here?’, a friend in Vancouver asked me at the end of the first week of the Winter Olympics. I explained that we were there: that nineteen members of the fifty- two strong British...
View ArticleStrong Argyll presence as Edinburgh piper, Iain Speirs, takes The Glenfiddich...
Iain Speirs, last year’s winner of the annual Glenfiddich Piping Championship, did it again yesterday, 26th October, at Blair Castle – with the added glory of taking the 40th anniversary...
View ArticleFirst woodlot licence in Scotland born from British Columbia experience
A new form of forest tenure has been established in Galloway, the first of its type in Scotland. Mark Rowe has become the first holder of a woodlot licence issued under the auspices of the Scottish...
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