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RE: Dalmally
Hi Ken
-
I only
wish I had the words to truly capture the magnificent beauty of Scotland.
If she was a woman I would be first in line to admire not only her beauty
but her dignity and strength as well.
While I
visiting my gran this trip she told me that a Robert Sinclair son of Archibald
and Harriet (nee Laing) had two sons who are living in Perthshire.
Previously I had thought that Robert had died without children. I haven't
yet searched for them but may try so that I could make some contact on my trip
over this summer.
I have
only been to Perth when I was a young girl. Have to see if I can ask my
mother for some pictures to jog my memory about where we went and what we
did.
Where
are you located now?
Have a
wonderful day.
Ready
Aye Ready,
Juli
Princeton, NJ but Forever Argyll
Hi Juli
Its awesome to read your description of
Dalmally and area. I closed my eyes, and I could smell and feel the
air.
My Sinclair`s came from Perthshire, which I
know nothing about yet.
Ken W Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 7:39 AM
Subject: Dalmally
>
>Hi Donald and Friends -
>
>Dalmally
Church is beautiful. The square shaped clock tower with
the
>attached octagonal church is very unusual but beautifully
positioned on its
>small rise of land.
>
>My gran and I
parked in the parking lot of the church and had a wonderful
>lunch of
Scotch broth and soft rolls in the car as we watched the sheep in
>the
adjourning field. After lunch I scrambled up the hill and through
the
>gate in the stone wall to enter the cemetery. I only walked
through the old
>section - closest to the church.
>
>My
first impression of the church and cemetery is difficult to
describe.
>Immediately I felt overwhelming excitement and yet even
more pronounced was
>the deep sense of peace or balance that washed
over me. Somehow I knew I
>had "come
home."
>
>The air in Dalmally, to quote my gran, "is
sweet" and combined with the soft
>Scottish mist that was falling
created an almost theatrical atmosphere.
>February is a wonderful time
to visit the Highlands if you are interested in
>capturing a feeling
of what it might have been like years past. The stark
>form of
the bare trees against the low hanging gray sky, the intense green
>of
the grass, the mounds of rust colored dead bracken and everything
around
>you water logged all combine with the beautiful clear
air. Time stops.
>Your senses are overcome with the rugged
beauty of the land. I wanted to
>taste the rain, listen to the
"squish" of my shoes in the soft ground, touch
>the moss
covered stones, fill my lungs to capacity with the fresh cool air
>and
photograph all that I saw and do this all
simultaneously.
>
>Dalmally Church and cemetery is beautifully
kept. Dunoon cemetery struggles
>with an outrageous level of
vandalism (and an apparent apathy to it.) There
>was no evidence
of such a problem in Dalmally.
>
>The high gloss red double door
is very welcoming.
>
>Donald, all the stones in the old section
face East - do you know why? I
>have heard tales of "The
Gates of Heaven always being open in the East."
>Some stones
would be easier to view if they were inscribed on the
other
>side. It is difficult to squeeze between the stone and
the side of the
>church when the stone is 6 inches from the building
to read the inscription.
>So there must be a very important reason for
this.
>
>For anyone visiting Scotland - Argyll is worth the
visit. I thoroughly
>enjoyed the Loch Awe area. Kilchurn
Castle, at times described as gloomy,
>has become my favorite piece of
real estate. It is currently up for sale -
>asking price - bids
over 150,000 pounds. Worth every penny as far as I
am
>concerned. A group of Germans were looking at it while I was
there.
>Wordsworth was also impress with Kilchurn and wrote the
following:
>
> "Child of a loud-throated war, the mountain
stream
> Roars in thy hearing; but thy hour of rest
> Is come,
and thou art silent in thy age,
> Save when the winds sweep
by...
>
>Personally I think Kilchurn and Loch Awe deserve a
little more exciting
>poetry - but hey I'm not
Wordsworth.
>
>Time to get on.
>
>Have a great
day.
>
>Juli
>
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- Re: Dalmally
- From: "Ken W Sinclair" <kensin66@sk.sympatico.ca>