Happy Birthday Robert Lewis Stevenson

[Matty Ross]

Today Is the 160 Birthday Of the beloved Scottish author and poet Robert Louis Stevenson. I think my FIRST introduction to Scottish culture was watching the movie David Balfour. I also remember memorizing his poetry in Grade school along with acting in plays, roles from his stories. Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson.

[McClef]

Ah Treasure Island - I remember it as if it were yesterday.

[MacBubba45]

I wondered what this was about today.

Happy Birthday to a truly international Scot.

[BoldHighlander]

Ah Treasure Island - I remember it as if it were yesterday.

Aye, he could spin a great yarn!

[sp00ky]

For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude
towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad. And there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lallans]

Kidnapped- defined the Scots in the minds of readers for generations, still does. To this day I won't go up darkened stairs in a relative's house, I mean not if they tell me to.

Treasure Island - Long John Silver defined pirates for all time, of course with a little carpet-chewing help from British actor Robert Newton. Har harrrr Jim Lad!

The Wrong Box - funniest single book ever written.

Travels With a Donkey - one of the best foot-travel books ever.

The Lamplighter and The Land of Counterpane - most gently evocative poems about childhood illness ever written in English:

http://www.songsforteaching.com/robe...amplighter.htm

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poet...unterpane.html