I piped for a funeral. It was humid and hot and my kilt, hose, and jacket were dripping wet by the end. Boy it was nice to get those ten pounds of wet wool off and hop in a cool shower!!
About this history stuff, it's just one of those things: some people are really interested, and for them no minutia is insignificant; others have no interest in anything that happened before they were old enough to remember things.
I'm somewhere in the middle. There are vast tracts of history that I know nothing about. But I've read piles of books on the ACW and know that one topic well. I've visited quite a few of the battlefields. Why? It just interested me, and my family was involved in it.
My ignorance of British history is nearly complete. But my father knew all the English kings and queens, the various court intrigues, all about the ECW, and so forth. Could have taught a college course in English history without the need to refer to notes... it was all clear in his mind, all the people and dates and events, and he a telecommunications engineer, of all things.
So it doesn't surprise me that there are Americans who know more about Scottish history than most Scots, just as there are Scots who know more about American history than most Americans.
Originally Posted by Fitzy
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