Susan, Ma, all,
Greetings from north central Pennsylvania en route from the SF Bay Area to Cuttyhunk Island Massachusetts, via Pennsylvania, aka Penn's Woods ... a religious experiment long ago, by Friends :)
And here now I find myself coming into State College, Pennsylvania, wondering where we might have gone Scottish Country Dancing here in the 1970s. And who was that tall woman at the Sheetz gas station I saw twice, once inside then outside - someone named Sarah Jean (Thompson)??? - also from the late 1970s, now today in a recreational bikers' gang, with black T-shirt (with a group of bikers, men and women), and who smiled broadly as I drove out, but who was wearing long white dresses with a blue green plaid at some Scottish dances, in the very late '70s, if I recall correctly. And there was a man next to her, a biker too, a boyfriend husband ??, - also a Scottish Country Dancer ??? (from long ago, handle bar mustache and shaven head)?
Now, coming into Pennsylvania State University's main campus, in State College, via side roads, I then found myself on Scotia Road, near Meeks' Road (where Donald Meeks is a brilliant Cambridge trained professor at the Univ of Edinburgh, in the School of Scottish and Celtic Studies, from the Isle of Tiree, and a native Scots' Gaelic speaker ... ) ... when I studied there in 2003-2004 ...
Now does one Katie (nee) Gould live in these parts still? Scottish Country Dancer of State College at the time ... (And thanks for reminding me, Sue, when we met at Lincoln's diner, that we met at the Ligonier Highland Games in the mid 1970s, - & that I said to you, with my curly hair, before a GHB practice chanter competition, that we needed to know 2 tunes, rather than one, since you were learning to play the Great Highland Bagpipes' chanter around this time as well :)
Greetings from Circleville Public Park :)
So nice to see you in Pittsburgh ![😊]()
especially.
As Aye, :)
Scott
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>
9:21 PM (33 minutes ago)
to Janie, Alden, Marianne, John, Mark, Alex, Heather, Jillian, klhwilliams
Hi Kate, (Janie, Alden, Marianne, Alex, Heather, Jillian, All),
Thanks so much, Kate, for the lovely dinner, and for your kind hospitality just now in Lakeville, Connecticut. Nice to visit your beautiful home here as well. Looking forward to seeing you on Cuttyhunk if it works out sometime in July. (Hoping your move with Christian, if you decide to go ahead with it, to the SF Bay Area goes well ahead - and what a big change too!) Nice to learn more about a favorite first cousin once removed, your husband of 28 years, John Briscoe, esp! Thanks for sharing.
See you in the morning, and thank you so much again, Kate!
(Looking forward to staying in touch about MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch and journalism, for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Journalism (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)
(Ma, thanks for your call too, which I got on my laptop. While I appear not to have telephone access here, I do have laptop computer access, thanks to Kate and Christian's wifi signal; I am departing around 9am, and hope to make ferry reservations on a landline).
Best regards, Scott
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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
9:35 PM (22 minutes ago)
to Ann, Catherine, Alden, MacLeod, Grant, Matt, Sandy, Janie
Ma, (Annie, Cathy, Alden, Mark)
Here's the photo of George Kirkbride, your great grandfather I think, which we added, on 2 genealogy platforms -
1
and
2
which I don't think you'll be able to see -
(Kate Briscoe is a bit nervous or anxious these days she says, and said she's isolated too - and is thinking of moving out to the Berkeley area with Christian it sounds like fairly soon).
Hoping to be on Cuttyhunk in the evening of tomorrow if all works out ferry schedule-wise.
Love, Scott
George Kirkbride pic on mother's Janie JKB MacLeod bedroom wall Back of pic says B in Appleby Westmoreland, Eng 1B32 D Sep 1918.jpg
George Kirkbride pic on Mother's jkb MacLeod
Back of picture says
George Kirkbride
Born in Appleby
Westmoreland, England
1838
Died Sept 1918
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- Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com
World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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