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Neil
Gunn's Landscape |
Proposed New Neil Gunn Readers Group 2003
The walk started at Dunbeath Preservation Society's museum housed in the old school that Neil Gunn used to attend. The museum holds a number of collections including all of the items collected by the Neil Gunn society that ceased just a few years ago.
For Neil Gunn enthusiasts it was a chance to have many places pointed out that appear in the novels one way or another. Nan and George Bethune led the way with Diarmid Gunn the authors nephew and other experts fielding questions on the novels and the area.
Neil Gunn walked the a area often from childhood and returned often in his adult life even when working in other places. On this day the group concentrated on the lower part of the strath but it is possible to see much more and discover many other places that appear in some form in the novels.
Neil Gunn's ancestors came from the farm at Ballachly nearby. He could trace his great grandmother and other relatives in the area. The Dunbeath broch is clearly visible from the top of the knoll and the group went to both the knoll and the broch. There is a great deal to see further up the strath if you have time to walk along the river up to Prisoners Leap. |
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Buy Neil Gunn Books Proposed New Neil Gunn Readers Group 2003 Over 40 pictures taken on a walk up the Dunbeath strath on 17 December 2000 |