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OTHER SITES

THE SCOTTISH CONNECTION  http://www.rampantscotland.com
First port of call for a comprehensive list of things Scottish (over 5400 web links, including art and literature)

ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS
Scotland Art Scotlandart.com Affordable Original Art. Over 1200 paintings online. Glasgow Gallery.
Alex Gourlay, Port Appin Gallery http://www.alexgourlay.co.uk

LITERARY CONNECTIONS
Willie Meikle write Scottish ghost and horror stories. I haven't been able to access his main site where he lists his publications and I haven't yet had the opportunity to read any of his stuff, but being kindly disposed to other Scottish writers on the net I include this link to his author page http://www.authorsden.com/williammeikle
More e-publications (Poems, articles and stories) - Younglit.com is a Californian website which offers web publication space to young writers (14-30 years of age).
Free The Writer is a website with stories by several authors - all free

For students doing online research - http://www.cheathouse.com/
This website offers a huge list of online literature. They say the idea is to provide "inspiration", so we'll hope that that is what it is. But hey, they're going to lift stuff from the Internet anyway. I just hope that the information they get passes throigh heads before it reaches the hand-in page. I wasn't encouraged to find a glowing recommendation on the cheathouse website for one of John Searle's so-called philosophical essays. Readers of this website will know what I think of John Searle's arguments. You have to pay cheathouse to get access to the essays and other stuff which they list.

SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES
http://www.scottish-communities.net/table.asp"
There is also a map-driven site of local communities available at http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/uslinks/community.html

SCOTTISH MERCHANDISE
http://www.shop-in-scotland.co.uk/acatalog/Shops.html
An online shopping mall for scottish merchandise.

THE WEDDING INDUSTRY
There seems to be a current enthusiasm for getting married in a Scottish castle. Here are a couple of sites with services to offer in that direction.
Luckenbooth Weddings
Who will organise your wedding for you, sell you various wedding related knick-knacks or do you a splendid display of balloons
SayItAllCDs
Who will provide you with invitations on CD (with music and words) which you can send to the special guests you want to attend your event, whatever it is.

MISCELLANEOUS
The American connection   http://www.smithfieldfair.com
The home page of Smithfield Fair an American folk song group which specialises in Scottish songs and who drop in on Appin from time to time.
Walking/Climbing in Scotland  http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/Mountaineering//
Glasgow University Mountaineering Club (all good friends)
The Knoydart connection  http://www.firecraft.com/knoydart
 This is the website of the Knoydart foundation a consortium of the Knoydart community.
Power to the people!
The Oban connection  http://www.oban.org.uk The Oban and Lorne Tourist Association.
The MacBrayne's connection  http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/irmurray/ferries.asp The (unofficial) MacBrayne's site with a map of routes.
John Smith's for Scottish Books  http://www.johnsmith-bookshops.co.uk John Smith's has been peddling books for a very very long time. It is in fact one of the oldest established business in Scotland and I have spent many a happy hour between the quiet shelves of what used to be their main book store in St Vincent Street Glasgow. Now sadly it has succumbed to the competition of the chain bookstores. They still have a conventional book shops on various university campuses and they run a website which is very helpful on the matter of tracking down books that are otherwise unavailable. If you are looking for books about Scotland or even just out of the way things which other stores will not bother with, this is the place to go.
Clan Livingston  http://www.innercite.com/~rlivingston/clan.shtm The Clan Livingston site
The Bothy connection  http://www.mountainbothies.org.uk The Mountain Bothy association.
Genealogy  I get a lot of enquiries about genealogy by people claiming scots ancestry but I can't give them a lot of help. The official Registrar's site on this subject is http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf
A more general resource can be found at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/genealogy.html
Those just wishing to get a general indication of clan/family history might check out http://freepages.rootsweb.com/directory/genealogy.html
Barcaldine.
S.E.Carmichael http://www.secarmichael.com A local Appin Builder

Our MILLENIUM PROJECT = Linking all the APPINS round the world

The OZ connection  Walkabout, APPIN, NSW, Australia
QUOTE - Appin was named in 1811 by Governor Macquarrie after a small coastal village in Argyllshire in Scotland where his wife was born.
The Canadian connection  Glencoe (and Appin), Ontario, Canada
South West of Toronto in the land between Lake Eyrie and Lake Huron.
The New Zealand connection  The Appin Gallery
Whangarei Heads, North Island, New Zealand. Dougie Chowns is an artist who has travelled much and has visited us here in Appin. His place in NZ bears a kind of similarity to ours.