Pipers’ were part of the celebration at Robbie Burns Night, an
annual Scoitish tradition organized racently by Terrace's White

Heather Club.

- Traditional Scottish music brought many people to thelr feat

during the Robbie Burns dinner and dance held recently at the
Thornhili Community Centre under the sponsorship of the

White Heather Club.

Photo by Daniele Berquist,

Library to hold

general

How do the people of

-Terrace pass the time on
‘ those dark rainy winter

evenings? Just ask the
staff of the Terrace Public
Library, and they will tell

you that Terrace residents
- read a lot of books. The

library has over 6,500
members, and last year

‘they checked out 148,000

books, magazines, re-

cords, tapes, and, compact -

discs.

The Terrace Public -

Library Association will

be holding it Annual:

General Meeting on

meeting

Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7:30

_ p.m, in the library meeting

room, and all members of
the public are welcome to

attend. If you would like
~ to know more about your

library, why not attend?
Members will be elected to
the board of trustees,
library scrapbooks will be

on display and srefresh-

ments will be served.

WORD POWER - ambrosia:
an excellent food or drink; in
ancient times known as the
food of the-gods.

‘born. Agnes

White Heather
honors great
Scottish poet

The annual Robbie
Burns Dinner and Dance,
sponsored by the White
Heather Club, was held at
the Thornhill Community
Centre on Jan. 31. The
event is a Scottisn tradi-
tion in honor of the poet
Robert Burns. .

by Daniele Berquist

Burns was born in
Alloway, near Ayr, in
Scotland during the seven-

teenth century. He was the.

eldest of seven children,
the son of a struggling
farmer. Although poverty
limited his formal educa-

tion, Burns read extensive.

amounts of English litera-
ture and the Bible. During
that period he also learned

to read French. Burns was

strongly encouraged by his
father, William Burness,

to pursue his self-

His mother,
Broun,
though she was illiterate
acquainted Burns with
many traditional. Scottish
folk. songs, legends and
proverbs.

During his early teens
Burns did farm work to
help his family, The ar-
duous labor, combined
with an inadequate diet,
permanently: injured his
health an¢ led to. the
rheumatic heart disease
from which he eventually
died.

In 1784 his father died
leaving Burns as head of

education.

the family, Burns and his -

brother Gilbert rented a
farm near Mauchline, but

the new venture proved to. -

be no. solution: for the
family’s economic pro-
blems.

An Edinburg poet,
Robert Fergusson, in-
fluenced Burns greatly in

his poetry writing. Burns _

soon realized the literary
possibilities of the Scottish

regional dialects. During. - |

the years of 1785 and 1786
he produced most of his
best known poems, ' in-
cluding ‘‘The. Cotters
Saturday Night’’,
“‘Hallowe’en”’,
Daisie’’, and
Mouse’’. In addition to

-these, Burns wrote ‘‘Jolly

Beggars’’ considered one
of his masterpieces. —

Several of Burns’ early
poems, ‘Holy Willie’s
Prayer’’, ridiculed local
ecclesiastical squabbles
and attacked . Calvinistic
theology, bringing him in-
to conflict with. the
church. Burns further
angered the church
authorities by having
several indiscreet love af-
fairs.

Burns arranged to pub-

lish a collection of his.

poetry on July 31, 1786.

Titled ‘Poems chiefly in

the Scottish Dialect’’, the
publication was an im-
mediate success, In 1787 a
second 3,000 copy edition
of “Poems’’ was publish-
ed. His next publication
consisted mostly of songs,
including original compo-

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sitions and adaptations of
traditional Scottish
ballads and folk songs. _

Some 200 songs were
contributed by Burns to
the Scots Musical Mus-
eum, a project initiated by
the Scottish engraver and
music publisher James
Johnson. Among.: Burns
songs are some old
favorites such as Auld
Lang Syne, Comin’ Thro’
the Rye, A Red Red Rose,

and. John Anderson My
~ Jo.

After the outbreak of
the French Revolution,
Burns became an out-
spoken champion for the
republican cause. His en-

‘thusiasm for liberty and

social justice dismayed
many of his friends and
admirers, Some shunned
or reviled him and for a
time his job was threaten-
ed.

After’ Burns’ death in
the year 1796, a memorial
edition of his poems was
published ‘by Scottish
physician James Currie
for the benefit of his wife

and children.

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Jock Halley delivered the traditional address to the haggis at
the recent Robble Burns Night dinnar and dance In Thornhill,
The address concluded with carving of the uniquely Scottish
dish.

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