FLAGSTAFF ROBERT BURNS NIGHT
Kilted
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No Host Cocktails at 5:00 PM An evening of traditional food, entertainment, bagpiping celebrating the life of Scotland's most famous poet!!
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Order by January 25, 2008 Adults $30 Children $14 Arizona Music Pro Jude McKenzie 928-556-3161 |
| Burns' youth was passed in poverty, hardship, and a
degree of severe manual labour which left its traces In 1781 Burns went to Irvine to become a flax-dresser,
but, as the result of a New Year carousal of the workmen, including
himself, the shop took fire and was burned to the ground. This venture
accordingly came to an end. In 1783 he started composing poetry in a
traditional style using the Ayrshire dialect of Lowland Scots. In 1784
his father died, and Burns with his brother Gilbert made an ineffectual
struggle to keep on the farm; failing in which they removed to Mossgiel,
where they maintained an uphill fight for 4 years. |
Statue
of Burns in LondonRobert Burns - often abbreviated to simply Burns,
and also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman
Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and (in Scotland) simply as The Bard (see
Bard (disambiguation)) - was born in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland,
the son of William Burnes/Burns (Burns himself originally spelled
his surname Burness, but dropped 'es' from it), a small farmer, and
a man of considerable force of character and self-culture, and Agnes
Broun, the daughter of a tenant farmer from Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire.
in a premature stoop and weakened constitution. He had little regular
schooling, and got much of what education he had from his father, who
taught his children reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history,
and also wrote for them A Manual Of Christian Belief. Burns also received
education from a tutor, John Murdock, who opened an 'adventure school'
in the Alloway parish in 1763, and taught Latin, French and mathematics
to both Robert and his brother Gilbert. However, with all his ability
and character, the elder Burns was consistently unfortunate, and migrated
with his large family from farm to farm, without ever being able to
improve his circumstances.
