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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 7.30 p.m.
The Lauriston Jesuit Centre was delighted to welcome Dr David Anderson for his first visit. Like John Muir, he is a native of Dunbar and a passionate advocate of Muir’s memory and legacy.
Click here to download an MP3 recording of his Lauriston Lecture, or click below to listen to it: |
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Having received his Ph.D from Edinburgh University and after postdoctoral studies at the universities of Alberta and Sussex in inorganic and organometallic chemistry, he joined the East Lothian Museum Service in 1994. His principal work there is managing and delivering archive materials from throughout Scotland by way of the SCRAN project, an excellent resource providing digitised materials and resources from every period of Scottish history.
As a founder member and now Honorary Life Member of Dunbar's John Muir Association, he helped with various projects to get a John Muir Centre off the ground and gravitated naturally to the Birthplace when it was opened in 2003.
Particular projects he has been involved in have included “John Muir's Dunbar - a Town Trail” (1994, revised 1998, revised again 2008) and he recently wrote the introduction for Birlinn's issue of John Muir's 'The Story of My Boyhood and Youth'.
In his Lauriston Lecture Dr Anderson introduced us to the life and story of John Muir, and in particular, using Muir’s own words, the religious images and language that permeate Muir’s writing. Muir connected nature and the divine in myriad ways, and saw the hand of God and experienced the touch of God in all the places he sauntered.
Muir once wrote that “everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” He found his healing and strength in the beauty of California, and in his native Scotland. It’s right here for us to find it as well! |