WRITING

In Recent Years

In 2016 for the Dingwall Book Festival I wrote and published a booklet on local architect James Joass.
In 2017 I made a book on 'Dingwall On The Waters', and for 2018 a booklet on General Hector McDonald of Ross-shire, the hero of Omdurman.
I have been investigating 19th C Highland ministers who were amateur archaeologists and geologists, and Alexander MacKay of Rhynie, who became a lay missionary in 19th C Uganda.
I pitched without success several book ideas to publishers, including the 45 Rising told by eyewitnesses, and Scots travellers’ lives in their own words.
Finished and published as a website 'They Sang Bonnie' about Scotland’s women singers and songmakers from the 17th to the mid 20th centuries.
Then I spent much time on a website and booklet project about US song collector Ken Goldstein's work in Buchan in 1960, under the title 'Fae Fishie Tae Aikey', involving several of Scotland's finest traditional performers.
Most recently I moved on to researching and celebrating the remarkable forgotten collecting work 120 years ago of Annie Shirer the 'Kininmonth Lassie'.
Plus I have been assisting the fine Wester Ross bardic lyric maker Hector Mackenzie getting more of his work published in booklet and website as 'From Inverasdale To Poolewe'.
And still working with Robert Ekapu in Uganda on our 'Bridge Builders Uganda' NGO.

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