Author: wdickson
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Special Rate for GOS
The Florenceville Inn is offering a discount for the Gathering of the Scots festival. Owner, Vernon Thomas has advised “We would be pleased to support your preferred rate during your event on June 3 & 4 overnight with guest room rates of $90 per night (1 or 2 persons) which includes continental breakfast. Additional guests (3rd 4th person) in […]
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Whiskey Tasting Workshop
According to the Scotch Whisky Association, Scotch whisky evolved from a Scottish drink called “uisge beatha”, which means “lively water” or “water of life” in Gaelic. The earliest documented record of distillation in Scotland occurred as long ago as 1494, as documented in the Exchequer Rolls, which were tax records of this time. Scotland internationally […]
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A Celebration 15 Years in the Making
There is an old Scottish toast . . . used to this day in the ancient hills of Kincardine and Kintore, NB near the Village of Perth-Andover. It not a complicated one, with line upon line of rousing verse, but rather only 6 simple words carefully composed and dutifully passed down through the ages – to pay tribute […]