Just played my bagpipes for a funeral at the San Rafael Mission (Mission San Rafael Arcángel, founded in 1817, well before the Gold Rush) in Marin County, just north of San Francisco.

Found it interesting that the Priest asked me to play "Scots Whae Hae" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wha_Hae) a Scottish patriotic song from around the 1300s, about Scotland and Scottish people, right before I played Amazing Grace. Then when the service began, as I was sitting at the back, the attenders sang Amazing Grace, and then Father Bruno Gibson read the words of Scots What Hae ... all before the Scottish independence referendum, 2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence_referendum,_2014) this autumn.


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Scotland independence Views from Stratford upon Avon

Scottish independence: Gauging reaction in the home of William Shakespeare

By Laura BickerBBC referendum correspondent

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27122658


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Tariq Ali (who understands Scots) and Tom Holland (who doesn't) on Newsnicht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0baTtomaIRQ


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Celebrating Separatism

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/05/05/celebrating-separatism/


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The visceral hatred of Westminister politics

http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/visceral-hatred-westminister-politics/23805


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Bella Caledonia
https://twitter.com/bellacaledonia

Yes Scotland
https://twitter.com/YesScotland


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Q&A: Scottish independence referendum

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Scotland's Referendum
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT ON
18 September 2014
http://www.scotreferendum.com/


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While Scottish Independence found expression in the 1970s, it goes back in various forms at least seven or eight centuries ...


Fascinating process to be observing ...


Here's WUaS's Scotland page where people and Scots can openly teach and learn ...


http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scotland