Blantyre Project reader, Linda Marieskind has kindly shared this wonderful poem. She told me, “I decided to think about and write something in a similar vein to record my first day at Nessie’s skuil! I hope you like it, it’s just as it happened and I still see it in my mind’s eye as if […]
Continuing a look at Blantyre folk. Linda Mackie Marieskind submitted this photo of her mother into the Blantyre Project Archives. She told me, “Stonefield Parish Church was my family church. In this photo on the steps of the church is my beautiful mother, Mary Mackie (nee Pearson at the time). My mammie was bridesmaid to […]