Burns Cottage - Atlanta, GA
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The Robert Burns Cottage is located at 988 Alloway Pl, Atlanta, GA. Burns Cottage is privately owned by the Burns Club of Atlanta, and generally not open to the public. For more information contact Dr. James Powell, at 770-471-0725
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Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2008
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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (New Year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, and Ae Fond Kiss.
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This replica cottage was constructed in 1910
There is also a Historic Marker placed by the Educational and Historic Commission
Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A. M. 1968
Marker Text:
To Robert Burns
Immortal Scottish Bard-Ardent Freemason
(1759-1796)
Here in 1910, was erected by the Burns Club of Atlanta, Georgia, a building unique in the world - the only exact replica of the Burns cottage near Kirk Alloway Ayrshire, Scotland, birthplace of the world's most beloved poet and "poet Laureate of Freemasonry". The cornerstone of the cottage was laid in 1910, in due and ancient form, by the most worshipful Grand Lodge of Georgia Free and Accepted Masons in tribute to the memory of our Great Scottish Brother.
Burns was made a Freemason on July 4, 1781, at St. David's Lodge Tarbolton, Scotland. He was elected depute Master of St. James' Lodge July 27, 1784 and served until St. John's Day of 1788. In 1786 he was elected to Honorary membership in St. John's lodge No. 22, Kilmarnock, Scotland and the minutes of that lodge recorded him as Robert Burns Poet.
Freemasonry was the dominant influence in his life and many of his poems express in unmatched beauty and simplicity the ideas of Masonic Brotherhood.
Marker placed by the Educational and Historic Commission
Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A. M. 1968
Chat's and Book Reviews by Frank R. Shaw FSA
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Burns Cottage--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
Burns Cottage is located at 988 Alloway Pl. in Atlanta. It is privately owned by the Burns Club of Atlanta, and generally not open to the public. For more information contact the club's president, Dr. James Powell, at 770-471-0725.