‘Big cat’ and murder mystery feature in latest Kintyre Magazine
The magazine features many other articles by various authors on both historical and contemporary topics.
The magazine features many other articles by various authors on both historical and contemporary topics.
To mark the society’s centenary year, we are taking a look at some of the group’s outings to sites of historical interest in the area.
The first issue of the magazine was published in April 1977, under the editorship of Mrs Peggy Hunter, Southend, and it has appeared continuously ever since.
The latest edition of the Kintyre Antiquarian and Natural History Society Magazine features an article about the society’s own history in honour of its centenary year
The group aiming to preserve a dilapidated Machrihanish cemetery has been praised by a national body.
Mr Martin recalled that ‘Scotland’s first world boxing champion’ Lynch fought an 1936 exhibition match in Campbeltown.
‘This involved the death of millions of Kulaks (rich peasants) but without that campaign it is arguable that Russia could not have fed itself at all during the Second World War.’
A Courier ‘From our Files’ tale of an adder bite prompted Sandy McMillan to write: ‘An Encounter with an Adder.’
Ronald Togneri’s illustrated talk: ‘Archibald MacKinnon and the Cave Painting,’ is at the Ardshiel Hotel, Campbeltown, on Wednesday December 5, 2018, at 7.30 p.m.
Hamish Henderson, the founder of the school of Scottish Studies, was wandering about the hills here at the start of the war, taking notes in German and arrested as a spy.