William Douglas's Blog – February 2014 Archive (5)

With worldwide interest in the sport following the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it seemed appropriate to print this extract from John Kerr's book 'The History of Curling', published by David Douglas in Edinburgh in 1890.

In a poem* written by Captain Paterson about the beginning of this century are duly celebrated the deeds of Thomas Haddow (who is said to…

Bristow-Douglass "The Rev. James Bristow and Sarah Douglass Bristow" Their Ancestors and their Descendants 1640-1961 Compiled by Julia J. Bristow

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Each year, the Museum of the Everglades hosts the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Festival to celebrate her life.

Rick Hirsch of the Miami herald writes about her time on the Miami Herald, here:…

The ink sketch is haunting: A roughly clad Scottish Highlander and his young wife on snowshoes, trekking alone in swirling snow 200 years ago near Hudson Bay.

He's wearing a highland bonnet, shouldering a musket. She holds a bundle wrapped in tartan to her heart.

The bundle is a baby, born hours earlier in a tent banked in…

The founder of Douglas Pharmaceuticals, Sir Graeme Douglas, has announced his retirement as the company’s managing director, effective February 1. He will remain as chairman of the Board and his son, Jeff Douglas, the current chief executive, will assume the role of managing director of the Douglas Corporate Group, New Zealand’s largest pharmaceutical…