Cumnock History Group has a new book, two years in the making. Many a Lang Scots Mile is a collection of migration stories of people coming into the Cumnock area and people leaving.
There will be a book launch on Tuesday 3rd March at 7. 30 in the Trinity church hall, Ayr road with refreshments. All welcome. The book will be sold for £12 on the night RRP £15. Meet the editorial team. A sequel is already planned!
A host of people have told us stories such as:
Cumnock man has a mountain in Antarctica named after him
Jewish man fled Belarus in the 1890s and fetched up in Cumnock
Cumnock sisters ran Edinburgh private girls’ schools
Cumnock civil engineer worked on the first Aswan Dam in Egypt
Cumnock man worked on SS Queen Mary at John Brown’s Shipyard in the 1930s
Cumnock man was on a hijacked plane to Cuba
Cumnock descendant went down with the Titanic
Cronberry lady married a Canadian first nations chief
If you can't get to Cumnock, here's the link
