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Burns Weekend brings Scotland home BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
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Bob Graff, Jim Short and Michael Scott celebrated Scottish heritage at the Newnan Burns Weekend.
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bit o’ Scotland was in Coweta for the annual Newnan Burns Weekend, which celebrates Newnan and Coweta’s sister city and sister county relationship with Ayr and Ayrshire in Scotland. This is the fifth annual Newnan Burns Weekend. It is held each year around the birthday of famed Scottish poet Robert Burns. Every year, the weekend features a mix of events, and this year events ranged from visits to schools to a Sunday Kirking of the Tartans service at Newnan Presbyterian Church. "The Burns weekend offered an event for everyone,” said Bette Hickman, who was instrumental in starting the sister city relationship with Ayr. Burns, most famous for writ-
ing “Auld Lang Syne,” “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" and for the phrase “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry” from his poem “To a Mouse,” was born in Ayrshire, and is often called the national poet of Scotland. Friday morning, the Piper Jones Band visited Elm Street and Ruth Hill elementary schools and O.P. Evans Middle School for performances, and Friday afternoon they played a free concert for senior citizens at the Wadsworth Auditorium. There were between 150 and 200 people at the concert, and some senior citizen centers brought van loads of concert-goers, said Larisa Scott, event director.
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