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Scotsman and Singer Recall Poetry of Robert Burns

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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 19960215
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An editor of a Scottish folk music magazine was thwarted in his attempt to bring a life-sized effigy of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, on to an airplane for an international folk music conference.

ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Pete Haywood is a Scotsman and the editor of a Scots folk music magazine. He's in Washington for the International Folk Alliance Conference and he is here without a vital companion - Robert Burns. This is the bicentennial of the death of Scotland' s national poet and Pete Haywood wanted to fly here with the life- sized Robert Burns. Actually, a ...

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