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The Dominie is growin’ grey,
And, feth, he’s keepit thrang
Wi’ counts an’ spellin’ a’ the day,
And liffies when they’re wrang…
—“The Dominie’s Happy Lot”, by poet & schoolmaster Walter Wingate (1865–1918)
Times may have changed, but happy World Teachers’ Day – 5 October – to all who celebrate!
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https://www.unesco.org/en/days/teachers
#Scottish #literature #teachers #teaching #WorldTeachersDay #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Scots #Scotslanguage
“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”
Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland
https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/
#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson
Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry
“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”
—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson
“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF
Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father
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Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds
For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson