Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
the toast to Scotland and Scottish heritage, at the St Andrew's Society Annual Dinner, Charlotte, NC, December 5, 2013, anticipating the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn,and the referendum of 2014, briefly commenting on Scottish connections at the University of South Carolina (and the death of Ross Roy earlier in the year), summarizing Burns's on and off plans to emigrate, the zig-zag of his life, and his evolving attitudes to the newly-independent United States, recounting the later life of two of his Scottish-friends who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1790s, Gavin Turnbull to South Carolina and Alexander Wilson to Pennsylvania, and speculating on Burns's future had he also emigrated at that time, arguing that the Scottish-American heritage embraces both recognition of a complex past and hope for the future. [Incorporates and summarizes passages from other addresses and published work.]
Publication Info
St Andrew's Society of Charlotte, 2013.