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"Ah ! what pleasant visions haunt me As I gaze upon the sea ! All the old romantic legends, All my dreams come back to me." Longfellow |
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"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land."
I was born in 1926 in the Royal Burgh of Earlsferry, an off the beaten path village on the Firth of Forth in the Kingdom of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. To me Earlsferry and it's people were my everything, my whole world, until one day fate intervened to set wheels in motion that would lead me on a path that would take me far from home. I've now been gone from Earlsferry for 55 years but not for one day of these years has my home village of Earlsferry deemed fit to let me go. Now on this web site at the request of my granddaughter, Hillary Renz, I roll back the clock as I recall for her the wonderful days that were of my youth when with carefree abandon I roamed Scotland's hills and it's beaches, sailed the sea and climbed the cliffs of my beloved Earlsferry and where on a tiny island in the sea, I found my special place that will forever be mine and to where, one day, I will return.
In the technicalities of creating this web site I'm indebted to Hillary's super dedicated school teacher mother, Heather Renz, as without her encouragement and know-how this web site would not exist. I'm also indebted to Albert Lawrie in Earlsferry and others who have sent me many of the photo's that help the reader visualize the places that I mention.
September 7th, 2008
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This personal website, courtesy of BendBroadband, Bend, Oregon, USA, is started on this day the 4th of January 2006 to occupy me during some of the hours that winter confines me to the indoors. I've chosen to name my site, "Scottish Heritage" and what evolves will be mostly (but not completely) personal remembrances of my early years.
Update I acquired a book on Microsoft FrontPage and slowly but surely Heather has weaned me to the point that I almost no longer need her help. The school teacher in her surfaced. She just had to disprove the myth of old dogs and new tricks. Ha. Ha. Look at Heather's awesome fourth grade class website.
Also visit Albert Lawries fascinating new web site The Alberto Hutte
To return to my Home Page from any of my individual pages, click either on the "Lighthouse" at the bottom of each page or the words "Scottish Heritage" at the top of each page or click the "Back" button.
When the occasion calls for a wee nip, or twa, o' the Drambuie or the single malt, this is my toast,-
"Till a' the seas gang dry".
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Website last updated June 21, 2009
Sydney Scott Reekie e-mail sbr@bendcable.com
