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William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas was master of Threave Castle, and Lord of Galloway. He was a cold, brutal warrior who was not that keen on bowing to the King. Ultimately, he came to a shocking end. youtu.be/oFwhG0lYaY4 #Scotland #galloway #History #GameOfThrones

Threave Castle & The Black Douglas

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We want to Know how often you use Customer Services? How good are they, and if you don’t use them what can we do to encourage you to. This includes Libraries, Registration, face-to-face customer services for the Council, and the Heritage Service. shorturl.at/jJKQ0
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Tonight at the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Here’s our latest wee history video. Mary Queen of Scots turbulent reign in Scotland came to an end after she was defeated at the Battle of Langside. She took flight through Galloway, leaving Scotland forever. youtu.be/vvx_wJn1AcU

Mary Queen of Scots: Flight through Galloway

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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A final story from Threave for now …. Even after the murder of William Douglas, the 8th Earl of Douglas, the Douglas Family had continued to defy James the Second, prompting him to bring the fearsome Mons Meg to Galloway to deal with them. youtu.be/1dhrC04UxjY
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E-versions of the six Galloway glens Booklets… @HeritageFundSCO @ScotBiosphere @dgcouncil’s Environment Team @DumGalLibraries @CelticGaelic glenkens.scot/reports-resour…

Glenkens Hub - Galloway Glens Booklets

Six booklets created during the Galloway Glens Scheme, supporting some of the different projects and initiatives undertaken.

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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A final story from Threave for now …. Even after the murder of William Douglas, the 8th Earl of Douglas, the Douglas Family had continued to defy James the Second, prompting him to bring the fearsome Mons Meg to Galloway to deal with them. youtu.be/1dhrC04UxjY
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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Gareth P Jones@jonesgarethp29 Aug 2023
Primary schools, if you're doing pirates this term, you can book an author visit with me & the price will include a copy of this book for every child in your year group. Contact [email protected] for details & rates.
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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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This infamous event from Scottish History partly inspired the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones.  
William 6th Earl of Douglas was only 14 when he became Earl.  But by the age of 16, he had been tried and executed for plotting against the King.  youtu.be/WwnhLx5rPik
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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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Coming on the 22nd of September to the Ewart Library! A show about Robert Burns with a difference, and a play set (partly) in a library being put on in a library. Can you afford to miss it? Tickets available from the Midsteeple.
Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / dave@cultural-connections.co.uk

ALT Cultural Connections presents CONNIE meets ROBERT BURNS A show about Rabbie Burns with a difference ! Written and directed by Ayrshire playwright Dave Dewar Unemployed Connie, visiting the local library to keep warm, discovers the poems and songs of Rabbie. Later, visiting the Robert Burns Information Centre to learn more, her forthright questions and views on Burns are often amusing, especially when it comes to women! The show includes well known Burns’ poems and songs. The professional cast comprises; two actors and two singers/musicians, on cello, accordion, keyboards and voice, with Andy Morton former President of Dundonald (Ayrshire) Burns Club on voice. FRI. 22 SEPT. • 7.15pm • EWART LIBRARY, DUMFRIES Tickets : £12 • Midsteeple, Dumfries • tel: 01387-253383 Online booking • www.ticketsource.co.uk/midsteepleboxoffice/t-eazqyrp  Further info. • Dave 07765 5 73240 / [email protected]

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youtu.be/v3tdAqGn3OE Situated slightly to the north of Carsphairn and the ruins of Lagwyne Castle is the Green Well, where the Devil sits on a ledge, guarding the 'vast' amounts of gold that have been thrown into it over time. #history #galloway #scotland #video #folktale

The Green Well of Scotland

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During its working lifetime, Loch Skerrow Halt was one of the remotest stations in the country. All that remains now are a couple of platforms, the ruins of the railway workers cottages and the Scots Pine planted to act as a windbreak. #History #VIDEO youtu.be/xHgVeF4uwXo

Lost Railways of Galloway: Loch Skerrow Halt

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