"In an age when scholarship is at a discount and change is regarded by many as synonymous with improvement, it seems to me that it becomes all the more important to look over our shoulders at the lives and achievements of our ancestors, for only by understanding the past can we prepare for the future."

" For over half a century the Kintyre Antiquarian Society, as it originally was, has held meetings where talks on all aspects of life in Kintyre were given. In addition, many of these lectures were published, but are now out of print. The Society's Library contains a large collection of books and manuscripts relating to Kintyre. Recently a sub-committee of the Society was formed to go into the question of making new and old material available to it's members, and others. This Magazine, which it is hoped to publish twice a year, is the result.

The words above were written in the Spring of 1977, and appeared in the very first issue of the Magazine, in April of that year. It is with the kind permission of the encumbent Vice-President of the Society, Mrs Frances Hood, FSA Scot.,that I am able to bring you these wonderful articles and tales from a bygone age. Ian Forshaw, 2 Jan '97

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