Will Collin, a Trustee of the John Muir Birthplace Trust, will introduce Dunbar's most famous son, and his memoir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. He will follow the reading with reflections on Muir's legacy. 'Muir is a role model for people of all ages, demonstrating that increasing
age is not a barrier, but presents another series of opportunities.' We are delighted to be bringing you this event in association with the Friends of John Muir's Birthplace. Why not combine this event with a visit to the John Muir Birthplace on Dunbar High Street?
"When I was a boy in Scotland I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy
North Sea, there was no lack of wildness, though most of the land lay in smooth cultivation. With red-blooded playmates, wild as myself, I loved to wander in the fields to hear the birds sing, and along the seashore to
gaze and wonder at the shells and seaweeds, eels and crabs in the pools among the rocks when the tide was low; and best of all to watch the waves in awful storms thundering on the black headlands and craggy ruins of the old Dunbar Castle when the sea and the sky, the waves and the clouds, were mingled together as one." - from The Story of My
Boyhood and Youth
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11 Newhouse Terrace
Dunbar EH42 1GL
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