John Logan and Martha McAdam On the wall of Laight Farm in glorious Glen Afton in the parish of New Cumnock is a memorial plaque
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National Poetry Day and New Cumnock Herd Fair
Today is National Poetry Day with a theme of water. This combination for most New Cumnockians would bring one work to mind – our national
Knockshinnoch Tower
The two-storey tower house once stood on the hill above the modern day farm of Knockshinnoch , close to the large clump of trees at
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill O, were I on Parnassus hill, Or had o’ Helicon my fill, That I might catch poetic skill, To
Thomas Campbell and his Robert Burns’ connections
Thomas Campbell of Pencloe Thomas Campbell was baptised on the 4th April 1746, third born of Hugh Campbell and Agnes Logan of Lanemark in the
Covenanters, Coal and Robert Burns
COVENANTERS The ancestral seat of the Gordons of Earlstoun stood a few miles north of St. John’s Town of Dalry in Kirkcudbrightshire. William, 3rd Gordon
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