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^ SCOTLAND Featuredwriters 02-03 Caitlin McClatchey 04-07 Suzanne Carty 08-09 Paul Gudgin 10-11 LawrieSpence 12-13 Pamela Robertson 14-17 Hans Offringa 18-19 Duncan Macniven 20-21 John Davidson 22-23 Jenni Calder 24-25 ProfessorJim Dunlop 26-29 Ferenc Morton Szasz 30-31 Eugene Meehan 32-35 Susie Maguire For a small country, Scotland’s influence on the world huge. Here, you’ll find is some of the more personal stories behind the Scots’ extraordinary wanderlust. From Abraham Lincoln’s passion for Burns to the proud third-generation Scots living about as far from Scotland as possible to get. Along the way, it’s you’ll also discover a little more about Scotland’s continued influence on global culture. As Jenni Calder observes on page 23, so much of Scotland’s history has taken place outside Scotland. The following are a selection of guest writer features taken from our website. These have been generously contributed We to us in recent years. hope you enjoy much finding out about Scotland as we as did. 1 A DREAM COME TRUE 2 have always loved to swim. I mum It runs in our family. My and swam dad, John and Louise, for the Scottish team at the 970 1 and 1974 Commonwealth Games. MyuncleAlan (McClatchey)won an Olympic gotofftoa good start. Duringthe race I Bronze in 1976. Bill (McClatchey). mypaternal I kepttelling myselfnotto losetouch ofMel Caitlin McClatchey granddad, swam forIrelandand mymaternal Marshall and Libbybecause knewtheywould Caitlin McClatcheyisaswimmerforScotlandand I great-grandfather,WalterBarron Ross,was gooutfast.Truetoformtheyhad setoffreally GreatBritain.Todate hergreatestachievement aobennfaomrmueamtt'ehsuersFiiedrens,tdWwuoraraslnadceSWcarorut.tninJseahrckjiiunen,iEodmriynsbwauuirnmgtmher faDanostyw,onnbuetthceIlemlaaarslntyalagesengdtwhtaosI ckboerueelpadtnuh’pitnwrgieattlhhleythsoeteehme.r hCinaostmhbmeeoe2nn0we0waimnlntainhndgG4a20mge0osml.dfSrmheeeedstaisylltseh.einSUhtKeherceo2cm0op0red6theodldienr fa1in9edl7d4maatCrtorhimeemdsotSnatrwetewoaafrlttthhMecsGCeaaclmolenusdm,ddeawcyhatoohflltoehnde.the wtuoanlydd.ermAywtsaeatlbeforutttohap2tu0tImIwmatysohtleehvaeedlfidwniiostwhh,nLIiacbnobudyl.dinIjstuehsete tfWGrihaetemehes4itsnyx.lte2hSei0hne0UtKmwh,eofnCr2aei0eats0ltbi5yrnloWecnoozrrmeellpdameyetCidehnasatlmhfpoeiirno2tLn0hose0uh4ig4ph0Osb.l0oyrmmopuigch tHietlesswaittc1h1e0dmtoahnudrdhliess,ScwoittninsihngretchorredeaStco4t0ti0smh lIahsatd1.0Imt,wagsivaebeivteorfybllausrt.ounceofenergythat iUsniavlesorssittuydwyhiengrefoarsawedlelgraesetrianinPiolnigtifcosr.hersportshe hurdles lasted from 1975to 1996. When finished, glanced The 2006 Commonwealth Gameswas I I needlesstosay, an unforgettableexperience up at the electronic timing forme. Scotland notonlywon more medals and saw had come first. than inthe previous 2002 Games in I Manchesterbut infactwon morethan any I was so shocked and then otherGames. For metowintwogold medals when looked at the time forScotlandfelttrulyamazing. I was flabbergasted. I rememberthe 200m racealmostsecond by I second.The pre-atmospherewasexciting and Itwasatrulygreatfeeling. I wasecstatic. Ithen tenseatthesametime. Noone reallyspoke caughta glimpseofmyteam mateswhowere toeach other,everyonewasfocusing onwhat shouting andjumping upand down! theywantedtodo.Thecrowdwasamazing. Theatmospherewhenthecompetitorswalked I hope I inspiredthem a littleandshowed ontothe poolsidewaselectric and buzzing. themthatthe brilliantAustralian'sweren't Althoughthecrowd was made upofmostly totallyinvincible. Laterthat night DaveCarry Australians, itwasexcitingtocompete infront wentontowin anothergold medal for ofa sell outvenueand myfellowteam mates. Scotland and overall Scotland had afantastic resultinthe pool. Beforethe race was moreexcitedthan I nervous. I reallyjustwantedtodivein and To havewonthefirst medalforScotland atthe seewhat I could do, because I hadfeltquite Commonwealth Games infrontofanAustralian smooth and relaxed inthe morning heats. homecrowdwill alwaysstaywith me. Itwasa Ifelt honouredto becompeting againstsome dream cometrueand hopefullywecan do ofthe bestathletes intheworld especially even betternexttime. LibbyLenton,whowas rankedworld number onefortheeventandwasverymuchthe home byCaitlinMcClatchey favourite. However, wastrying nottothink I aboutanyoneelse atthattimeandjusttried toconcentrateonwhat wantedto doand I achieve. Itwasalways mydreamwhen Iwas youngtocompeteforScotland inthe Commonwealth Gamesand nowitwas comingtrue. 3 At the 2001 Census in New Zealand, more than 13,000 people had been born in Scotland, but they form just a wee proportion ofthose who have migrated here or who have Scottish forebears. New Zealand is about as far as it’s possible to get from Scotland but, like Canada and Australia, it has been a country in which many ex-pat Scots have settled over the past 160 years of European colonisation of these isles 4 5 . Dunedin -NewZealand’sfourth-largestcityatthe bottom ofourSouth SuzanneCarty Island-is reputedly namedjointlyforDundeeand Edinburgh. Itwas SuzanneCartyisaformernewspapereditor. Born in certainlythe homeofmanyearly merchants andtraders,thoughtoday, Nelson,sheshiftedtoWellington, NewZealand's likethe Scotsthemselves, peopleofScottish heritagecan befound capital, in 1976where,twoyears later,shejoined throughout NewZealand. Manyfamous Kiwis, includingthe leaderofa The Evening Post,thecity’safternoondaily. In 1989 popularopposition political partyWinston Peters, a now-retired scourge shewasappointeddeputyeditorandtwoyears ofcompanydirectors MaxGunn, and highlyrespectedAll BlackTodd later, becameeditoroftheWaikatoTimesin Blackadder, havethedistinction ofbeing partScottish. Hamilton. In mid 1995shewasmadeeditorofThe fSEohvreecneaidlnsgtooPhoerselttd,iraaentpohusrmiobtuiegornhosiflhleihnehdaeullstdthruyinntpiJolsuinstehieo2nw0sa,0s1 wI,haolonhgavweitShcomttyisthwpoarseisnttesrs,anfadl/loirntgortahnedplaarregnetsn.umObuerrlaotfeNfaetwheZrealanders including being a memberoftheNewZealand Press migratedto NewZealandfrom Newmains,with hiswidowed mother, Council and oftheCommonwealth PressUnion brotherand foursisters, in 1948 once he had been demobbedfromthe Media FreedomCommittee.Today,sheworkspart Royal Naval VolunteerReserve afterWorldWar II. Recipientofa DSM timeforthe Dominion Post,Wellington’sonlydaily won in motortorpedo boataction, HenryCampbell Carty-ourdad paper, and remainsontheCouncil andCPU’sPFC. -came 12,000 milestothesmall settlementofCollingwood atthetop Suzanne isalsoa board memberoftheMultiple oftheSouth Island,where lived a sisterof his motherJean. SclerosisSocietyBoard.She isa Friend ofScotland, aged 52, marriedwith nochildren, butadoresher Amotormechanic, Harry-as hewas knowntofriendsandfamily- Persian cat.Gemma. movedtothe nearbyseasidecityofNelson chasing employment. The restofhisfamilydid likewise. There he, his brotherPeter, andtwo brothers-in-lawJohn Nicol and Bill Whiteformedthe nucleusofthe newThistlesoccerclub,following in thefootball-lovingtradition oftheCartylads’ latefather, Hugh. Itwas in Nelson he married mymother,whowas ofGerman heritageand whosefamilymigratedto NewZealand from Cologne inthe 1840s. I am guite surethat itwas dad’sgentle, Scottish accentthatfirst attracted my motherwhowas, atthetimeshe met him, doing a tailoring apprenticeshipwith dad’ssister, Mary. Today, ofcourse, onlyonesister,young Jean, remainsalivefromthat veryScottishfamilythatchoseto make NewZealandtheirhome nearly 50yearsago.Andwhile none ofdad’sdaughterswearkilts, each ofus is proud ofthatScottish ancestry. Each hasalso made herindividual pilgrimagetoStrathaven,wheredad’sfamilywas born andwhere grandad, Hugh Carty,wasawaterinspectorforthe local council. Each hasalso madea pointoflooking updad’s relatives. Mygrandmotherstill has at leastone niece and one nephew in Strathaven, both nowelderly living ‘upthe stair' inthesmall council housethattheyso proudlyown. Butasforgrandad’ssideofthefamily, much less is known. Sadly, grandad diedwhen myfather, hiseldersisterIsabel and onlybrother PeterwereservingtheircountryintheSecondWorldWar.Worse, we know little about him. 6 Scratch a Kiwi and more often than you might expect you’ll find a kilt underneath. Well, not a exactly, if kilt Scottish blood coursing through the veins. Grandadwasclearlya good soccerplayer-clippingsfromthetime, Andwillwe be back? I know I will. Iwantto putflesh on Grandfather carefullykept bythefamilyovertheyears,saythat hewasgoalkeeper Carty’s bones. wanttoseeJennie, now 90, andAndrew, 88, again I forAberdeenformanyyearsand hadthechanceto playforBlackburn beforetheydie. wantto meet mysecond orthird cousin, Sadie Louden, I Rovers. Butthere's notmuch moretotell.That,ofcourse, is notunusual. again, andjoin herand her mates in Strathaven overanotherwineor ManyKiwis havefamilywiththeirroots inScotland and manydetermine three.And I wantto be abletotell mynieces-Alice, nearly 14, Daisy, to makegenealogya hobbyatsometime intheir lives.Wewill, 10, Madeleine, 7, and Gabrielle, 4-all Ifind outaboutthegrandfather too, oneday. whodied beforethey, and we,were born, and about hisfamily in Scotland.Theywill wanttovisitthemselves. Mysisters KayeandVicki It's hardto explain-at leastin a waythatdoesn’tsound soppyand will encouragethemtodoso-Scotland has played such a large part sentimental-butwhenwewerechildren,the liltofdad’svoice,the in all ourlives, despiteourliving inthesesouthern Pacific islandsatthe differenttermsgran usedtodescribevariouseventsand places,were bottom oftheworld,thatforthem nottofind out moreabouttheir completelymystical and entrancing. So,too,weretheold 78 records heritageand Scotland asshe istodaywould be impossible. that mum hoarded, so manyofthem bearingthesongs oftenorKenneth McKellarand his more comediccounterpartAndyStewart.When both bySuzanneCarty entertainerscameto Nelson, mum, dad andwethreegirlswere bundled intooneofourhometown’stwosmalltheatresto hearthem sing all thesongsthatweresofamiliar. Even today, cannot hear My Granny’s I Highland Hame, The Scottish Soldier and The Northern Lights of Aberdeen without feeling a bit weepy. They were - still are, in fact - marvellous songs that made this homeland of my father’s just a little bit more real. One day, we each vowed, we would visit. And visit we did, separately and together. I’mfortunate, infact, because in myjournalism career I wasfortunate enoughto become a newspapereditor,twice. Myfirsteditorshipcame in 1992 when I was based in Hamilton, inthe heartofdairying and horse-rearing countryinwhatwecallthe region ofWaikato. Duringthat editorship,the British Government kindlybrought metothe United Kingdomforafortnight, duringwhichtime IwasabletovisitScotland’s Hamilton-soclosetowhere myfather’sfamilygrewup- and Craigellachie,the homeofmyfavourite maltwhisky,The Macallan. I still havethefabulous photograph ofthedistillery’sold house on my wall-thiswasonevisittoScotland Iwill neverforget. SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE - THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE Theyaretheonesthatseemto stick and Likeso manypeople, Ifell in lovewith followed bya lunchtimetalk, LennyHenry partofthe reason I thinkthis isthat I can Edinburgh and itsfestival onthatvisit. I had performingwith a soul band intheevening onlyremembertwoshows,one brilliantand neverbefore been toa placesocompletely endingwith someoverthetop late night one indescribably badfromthefirstyear immersed in performance, a citytaken over comedy. Somethingforeveryoneas an old I cameto Edinburgh back in 1986. byperformersforthreeextraordinaryweeks impresario mightsay. eachyear. It lefta lasting impression and I am afraid my reasonsforcomingto Edinburgh I managedtofind myfirsttwojobsatfestivals I wasfortunate enoughto be made Director thatyearwere notentirelydriven byartistic inAldeburgh and BurySt Edmunds. ofthe Fringe in 1999. Directorisa strangetitle motives. hadjustfinished studyingfora music becauseyou don’treallydirectthe Fringe,you I degreeatSurreyUniversityand had managed I was latergiventhe opportunitytowork in justcling onto itand hopeto bethereatthe tosecure an invitetostayin Edinburghwith Edinburgh asGeneral Managerofthe Queen’s end. Mostofthetime itfeels a bit like herding a veryattractivegirl I knewfrom school. Hall. Itwasa greatopportunityto be involved cats. I have no involvement in selectingthe Unfortunatelyshedidn’t mentionthatshe inthefestival asthevenue hosts performances acts,thewhole pointofthe Fringe isthat wouldn’tactuallybetherewhich rather forthe International,Jazzand Fringe Festivals. the performersthemselves makethedecision thwarted myplans buttherewasat leastthe Itwasawonderfullyeclectic placeto beduring tocome. benefitthatI wasthen abletotake in a great August.Atypical day mightstartwith one of deal more ofthefestival. theworld’s greatstring quartetsatthe International Festival’s morning concert