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Grace Notes Newsletter of the Memphis Scottish Society, Inc GRACE NOTES Newsletter of the Memphis Scottish Society, Inc. Vol. 36 No. 9 • September 2020 President’s Letter The pandemic curse of 2020 is still with us. Mary Ann is plan- ning on “Short Subjects” for the next meeting with several 5-10 minute presentations for the September Zoom meeting. Remember that the annual dues are due, $25 for family and $20 for an individual. Please mail them directly to the treasurer, Deb- bie Sellmansberger, at 14670 Hwy 193, Williston, TN 38076. You Memphis can also renew through the memphisscots.com website. Click on Scottish the large “+” in the top right corner and the rightmost box is for Join/Renew. The number of renewals will indicate whether the Society, Inc. Memphis Scottish Society survives COVID-19. Board There is the issue of officers elections coming up. Four of the current board members will be term limited out of office for next President year. Normally there is the nomination and election by the mem- John Schultz bership of one of the three members of the nominating commit- 901-754-2419 tee. I would like to have someone volunteer for that position to be [email protected] “elected” at the October meeting. The other members are some- one I, as president, appoint and the past president. With Melissa’s Vice President passing, as the president before her, I will be the third member. Mary Ann Lucas 901-725-1879 John Schultz [email protected] Treasurer Debbie Sellmansberger 901-465-4739 [email protected] Secretary Sammy Rich 901-496-2193 [email protected] Members at Large Shari Moore 901-598-1802 [email protected] Kathy Schultz 901-754-2419 [email protected] September Meeting Program: Holly Staggs presented by Mary Ann Lucas via Zoom 901-215-4839 [email protected] “Scottish Short Subjects” See page 2 for further information Tennessee Tartan. Created by the Heart of Tennessee Scottish Celebration as a State tartan. Passed by Tennessee Public Acts 1999, Chapter No.82, Senate Bill No. 73. The source of the tartan 2526 was: Bill Bickford of the Tennessee Tartan Committee. September Program “Scottish Short Subjects” Zoom presentation, Hosted by Mary Ann Lucas In the vein of 140-character communications, 10-minute episode TV series, Quibi, SHORT TREKS, and the like, the planned topic for this month’s meeting is “Scottish Short Subjects.” These would be short- short presentations of 5-10 minutes, featuring some of our favorite speakers. Notice to Program Presenters: John Schultz requests that if you plan to use his computer equipment for your presentation at the monthly meeting, please contact him at least a week before the meeting so he knows to bring his equipment and can work out any bugs ahead of time. His phone number is 901-754-2419. Get Ready for Your 2021 Dues October is fast approaching when the 2021 dues officially opens the window. Annual dues are $20 for individuals and $25 for families. Don’t delay. Get the pain over with. Another Covid-19 Casualty Due to the Coronavirus, Rick Clausi has announced that the Veterans Day Parade has been cancelled. The Proud Granpa, Darwin Concon - Congratulations May I introduce to all of you our Grandson, Roman Duvall Concon. A descendant of Royalists of the English Civil Wars; Spanish Conquistadors; Scottish Jacobite Veterans of the Battle of Culloden; Chinese Warriors and Merchants; Polynesians; Roman Legionnaires; French Huguenots; Germans; British Redcoats; Veterans of both the Union and Confederacy; Celts; Irishmen; Filipinos; Vikings; Chickamaguan/Cherokees/Delaware/Shawnee Native Americans; Artists, Doctors, Lawyers, Musi- cians, Soldiers, Sailors, Cavalrymen, Infantrymen, Paratroopers and a host of other ancestors. He has blond hair and blue-green eyes. Please welcome him into this adventure, his journey. EDITORIAL STAFF Sue Malone Grace Notes Editor, (901-385-1938) [email protected] Grace Notes is the official publication of the Mem- phis Scottish Society, Inc. It is published monthly. George Malone Like the Society itself, the credo of Grace Notes is Publisher, (901) 385-1938 “to foster education and promote understanding [email protected] of things Scottish.” to foster education If you have something of interest to readers Gavin Anderson and promote understanding of this newsletter, please submit a typewritten Circulation Editor, (901-485-8270) of things Scottish manuscript to the editorial staff. If the article or [email protected] notice is very brief (30 words or fewer), e-mail or just use the telephone. Grace Notes will accept Karen English and publish good quality photographs. Please address all correspondence to: Circulation Editor, (901-396-9134) The deadline for all submissions is the fourth GRACE NOTes [email protected] week of each month preceding the month of The Memphis Scottish Society, Inc. publication. Please include a self-addressed [email protected] stamped envelope with each submission, if you Submissions P.O. Box 383092 want the material returned. [email protected] Germantown, TN 38183 2 Remembering Hercules Linton By Douglas Cusine, Scotland Magazine, September 2018 (Condensed) Inverbervie, or “Bervie,” as it is known local- famous sculptor, Scott Sutherland, was commis- ly, is a Royal Burgh that was created in 1341 and sioned It was agreed that Sir Francis Chichester, can be found around 25 miles south of Aberdeen. who sailed around the world single-handedly, The village itself, however, is notable for being the should be asked to unveil the memorial and on 23 birth place of Hercules Linton, the designer of the October 1969, this took place. He was presented world famous tea-clipper, Cutty Sark. with an oak tray designed by Linton. Of the event, Linton was born in 1837 and, at just 19 years Sir Francis said, “Bervie should be proud of its old, he was awarded an apprenticeship at Alexan- achievement.” der Hall & Sons, one of Aberdeen’s leading ship- The memorial was a full-size replica of the building companies. By 1868, Linton had gone masthead of the Cutty Sark and faced south, pre- into business with William Dundas Scott to form sumably to reflect the fact that the ship had head- Scott & Linton Shipbuilders, based at Dumbar- ed south to the South China Sea to pick up her ton on the River Clyde. In February 1869, the new cargo. There was a huge turnout for the unveil- company was awarded the contract to construct ing and among those present were Linton’s two Linton’s most well-known ship, Cutty Sark. daughters. The Provost of Inverbervie suggested The project did not go smoothly. The build that, until a few years previously, the locals had was plagued by delays and, as the contract hinged been unaware of the town’s connection with Lin- on timely completion, the project led to Linton’s ton! bankruptcy. The ship was eventually launched at As is the case on the original masthead, the Dumbarton on 22 memorial depicts “Nannie” who will be familiar December 1869, to those who have read Robert Burns’ poem Tam five months late, O’Shanter. In the and famously took poem, Tam, who is part in a well-pub- riding home after licized “tea race” a night in the pub, with Thermopylae passes through to the South China Alloway Kirkyard Seas in 1872. and is confronted The race by a scantily clad hinged on which witch called Nan- ship could pick up nie, who is wear- 1.3 million pounds ing naught but a (589 tonnes) of tea Cutty Sark “cutty sark” – an in Shanghai and deliver it to London in the short- old Scots term for est time. Unfortunately, despite early success, Cut- a short nightdress. ty Sark broke a rudder in the Bay of Bengal and, As Tam spurs his though a new one was fitted, the race was won by mount to flee in Thermopylae. Today, the restored Cutty Sark can be terror, Nannie seen in Greenwich. tries to grasp the tail of Tam’s mare, Meg, which After the death of his wife in 1885, Hercules comes off in her hand – this is why she is depicted moved back in Inverbervie and for a time served on the masthead holding on to a horse’s tail. as a town councilor. Rather fittingly, in 1900 he The name Cutty Sark was supposedly pro- died in the same house in which he was born. posed by Linton himself to the ship’s original Prior to World War II, David Criggie of Gour- owner, Jock Willis, who also owned another ship don saw Cutty Sark and wondered why its de- named Halloween – a reference to another Burns signer had not been commemorated in his native poem. Regardless of the poetic connections, Cutty town. Many years later, he met Linton’s son, Wil- Sark is nevertheless a strange choice of name for a liam, and undertook to remedy this. As the cente- ship as in Scots mythology, witches are unable to nary of the launch drew closer, Mr. Criggie raised cross water. In fact, in the poem, it is by crossing the issue of a memorial with Grampian Televi- water that Tam is able to escape to safety! sion and his local MP, Alick-Buchanan-Smith, and Sadly, the memorial in Bervie has had an event- wrote to every member of the Town Council. The ful history. Over the years it fell into disrepair and campaign was successful and the Cutty Sark So- was vandalized. Later, when boats from the Tall ciety, in conjunction with the Council, agreed to Ships Race were to visit Bervie in 1997, Aberdeen- erect a memorial to ably reflect the ship. A suitable site was identified in Bervie and the (Continued on Page 4) 3 (Continued from Page 3) “I Got My 89-Year-Old Mum Remembering Hercules Linton to Wear Flower Vases on Her Head” shire Council bulldozed the site, apparently with- out consulting the community.
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