pferguson | March 1, 2012
End theme “Tumbledown”; cue The Corries, the Garten Mother’s Lullaby Every once in a while you come across a person, who you have never met and never known. Yet the story is there, at first hinted at by the accidental discovery of an image, a page or two from the internet. Then you discover this […]
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Tags: Falklands 1982, Garten Mother's Lullaby, Global Adventure Plus, pipers, Robert Lawrence, Scots Guards, The Corries, The Crags of Tumbledown, Tumbledown, Veterans, When the Fighting Is Over
pferguson | December 8, 2011
What is it about the film Longitude that continually rewards my spirit? I enjoy watching the film jump from one time period to the next as we watch both the invention and conservation of John Harrison’s timepieces. Though I marvel at a mind that can think so many things and can think of so many new […]
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Tags: Curators, Film History, James Cleland Richardson, Jeremy Irons, Longitude, pipers, Timepieces
Ian S. Williams | February 17, 2011
For many it comes as a surprise to learn that General Custer had five pipers among his ranks when he made his legendary last stand at the Little Bighorn. Nearly every historian of the West’s most famous and storied battle would dismiss such a claim. That is until they dig a little deeper into the lives that were lost on that grassy Montana plain, June 25, 1876.
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Tags: 7th Cavalry, Bagpipes, battle of the little bighorn, Custer's last stand, Garry Owen, Garryowen, John Macgregor, pipers, plains Indian wars, The Alamo