Echoes 17  2011

You can download the complete edition as a .pdf file Here. It is about 6 megabytes in size.

Or you can download the individual articles listed below:

A Daring Young Man in A flying Machine  – The story of Willie Calder, Tarland’s own Spitfire pilot, as told by Dorothy Reid

The Changing Scenes Uf Life – Joyce Marchant researches the lives of two of her great-grandparents in 19th C Aberdeen

Cattanach Of Bellastraid – One of John Grant Michie’s Deeside Tales (1872) about a murder at Milton of Logie

Life In The Crofts Of Drummy – Taken from conversations with Peter Lamont as recorded by Jan Healey

Sustainable Living – in Glengairn in the 19th Century – Extracts from The Dee From The Far Cairngorms by Ian Murray

An Excursion to Glenesk –  A geological journey through distance and time by Michael Rattray

Those Were The Days – A Tarland company’s staff photo and the story behind it

Lighting lamps and other jobs – A conversation with Rob Adam recorded by Jan Healey

Coull Church – Some notes on the history of Coull and its church from a talk by Jane Geddes

George Gordon, the Tarland Blacksmith – The poignant story behind a family photo as told by Graham Bruce

The Slochs o’ Carvie – Working out the origins of this and other similar local landscape features

Malcolm Canmore in Cromar – A wonderfully told tale from The Legends o’ the Braes o’ Mar by John Grant (1876)

Bad Days in the Wild West – A portrait of Tarland in the 1970s as observed by Sheila Hamilton of the P & J

Doddie Milne’s Day O’ The Green – A humorous poem by Jimmy Bremner about his mother-in-law’s washing habits