THE HEART IS HIGHLAND

e [Music] [Music] the blood is strong the heart is Highland from all over the world Scotsman and Highlanders came in Festival year to the greatest Clan Gathering ever held as they marched through the streets of the gray Old City of Edinburgh there was no doubt that on that occasion the heart of the capital was certainly Highland but they were in the lowlands for their own Countryside they must travel to the north across the Waters of the F of fourth here was the land from which the forefathers of these returning clansmen had originally come to pass from the lowlands to the highlands of Scotland is to cross a border country which marks almost a sharper difference is that between Scotland and England here is the real North the dark true the tender North this is the land of the grampion the great mass of mountains that lie between Edinburgh the capital of Scotland and iness the capital of the Highlands it is a wild romantic and often desolate landscape but full of great Beauty the Borderland stretches for miles in all directions there are long deep locks and a mass of mountains we know that these are amongst the oldest Hills in the world nonetheless the Morland does come right down to the edge of the little townships and Gatherings of mankind here the arrival and departure of the bus is a big event the Highland folk even though they are not themselves traveling gather around to hear and to pass on the news some of them do so in English some in the old Highland tongue of GAC and in that language there is a saying that when God made time he made plenty of [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it but even here the bus has to keep the shedu that's not a bad salmon the fisherman's take home with him and he knows it when God made time he made plenty of it ah but they're all in now the fisherman the farmer the housewife the farmer's wife and the children and so well primed with instructions the bus driver takes his passengers on their Journey [Music] he takes them by locks Side by Riverside and under the shadow of the hills and every now and again he has to stop to act as a kind of unofficial Postman the district nurse is a very important figure in the Highland community she's making quite sure that her message is going to be delivered [Music] these Bast roots go through scenery of great Beauty scenery which hasn't changed much with the years but one thing has changed and that is travel getting about in this part of the world was not always as easy as it is today sometimes in our modern Journey we see a reminder of the past when it took many days or sometimes weeks to cross this Countryside this is the old road which was built in an attempt to pacify the highlands by General Wade after the rising of 1715 today a new road capable of carrying tens of thousands of buses and motor cars a year leaps and stretches across the mo of ran and into to the dark defile of Glen Co The Glenn of weeping beside it and like a ghost from the past the old road meanders and turns its ancient way not everyone lives in the little townships which can be reached by the roads there are further places Farms amongst the hills to which the bus cannot go for the sake of these there are Wayside boxes where mess as well as letters are left for some of the remotest workers on the mainland of Britain the northern Scottish sheep farmers [Music] these sheep don't really need to look quite so puzzled and unhappy as all that at the end of this uncomfortable Journey they will find themselves lit loose on an island off the West Coast belonging to the Sheep farmer here for months on end they will remain undisturbed Lords of their own domain sheep farming though our traditional Highland way of life is not an ancient one it's only about 200 years old but there has come into the highlands something even more modern than the modern sheep on the hills for amongst these same Hills and in the strength of the waters that that move in them there was the possibility of an even newer way of life for the Highlander a possibility dreamed of by only a few Visionaries its name is hydro electric [Music] power man has now harnessed the of the Storm and The Rains which fill the waterways of this mountainous [Music] District as this new lock came into being a number of old things sank and disappeared from Man's eyes possibly forever abandoned houses trees fences Gates occasional fields and other signs of man's habitation and here and there an Old Road is swallowed up in the rising tide of man-made lock water indeed one very famous Old Road in parts now disappears straight into the Waters of the lock which man has made for his own use it is the road to the Isles [Music] the old road has gone but the water which has covered it now provides power far greater than the power of all the traffic which has passed over it for centuries [Music] la [Music] but it is not only in the waters of the Highlands that modern resources lie on these great rolling hillsides some of them now strip bare of their trees there is soil which in the days of Nelson helped to produce the wooden walls of Britain we no longer build our ships of wood but there are many other uses to which it can be put and Forestry is one of the most important and growing Industries in this part of Scotland these young trees must be enclosed within enormous plantations and regularly tended from the days of the great Caledonian Forest there have been trees in the highlands and there have been men to make use of them but until recently the care of trees was not practiced with any planning for the future in the highlands of Scotland now whole new community of Foresters have come to settle and to develop an old source of wealth these new forests provide shelter for abundant wildlife and the gamekeeper and the Woodman often work in advance on their own separate jobs a Highland gamekeeper is almost as much a creature of woods and Morland as are the birds and animals in his charge he carries his gun to destroy their enemies the Vermin the foxes the stes and the weasels he knows the secret ways of the forest and can from cl to watch the shy elusive deer [Music] [Applause] skiing is a comparatively new sport in the highlands but it is one that has attracted many Hardy enthusiasts from all over Britain in these Northern parts of our Island skiing is by no means certainly a winter sport for this is June another newcomer is the hiker of course there are always been mountain climbers but they were not so long ago regarded as rare and adventurous spirits today the mountain scenery of Scotland is open and accessible to the Youth of the country upon every weekend in spring summer autumn and in some years during the winter the young people of the towns of Scotland pour out into the highlands to wander along the old Hill paths to climb the trackless mountains to fish in the streams and burns to Camp beneath the star in the open air and perhaps most ardently of all to enjoy the unsurpassed beauties of the scenery and what scenery it is to along a Sea Coast as beautiful as any in Europe The Traveler will see some of the old cast which have fallen into Decay and disuse some have been destroyed in the clan Warfare which once ravaged the highlands their gaunt shells remain to speak to us silently of the more turbulent Highland past but he will also see some like Castle urer on the shores of less which are still comparatively undamaged and some like Ellen Donan on the west coast that are still inhabited amongst the most famous of the inhabited castles of Scotland is glams which lies upon the eastern border of the Highlands Scottish bonial in origin It Bears traces of French Shadow influence reminding us of the days when there was an old alliance between Scotland and France and when stonemasons and Builders as well as students and Scholars showed this Alliance in their work [Music] the Crypt of the castle is nearly a thousand years old McBeth was sa of GS and the structure of this dark and E room can't have changed much since his day next to the CP there is a room which Shakespeare has made famous it is the room in which Duncan king of Scots was murdered by McBeth we thought I heard a voice cry sleep no more glams hath murdered sleep McBeth shall sleep no [Music] more James the a later King of Scotland surveys the scene about the Crypt and in the drawing room of the castle the present day mingles with the more recent past of 300 years ago as the date on this beautifully molded ceiling announces the F place is of the same age but the more modern Furnishings show that the room is still very much a living room today portraits belonging to the illustrious family that is own glams castle look down upon the room which their descendants now inhibit further upstairs there is a room which of recent years has become as famous as Duncan's room but for happier reasons this was the bedroom of the late Countess of St Moore of the family of B Lon which has owned glams for 500 years the Strathmore arms are embroidered at the head of the bed and on the canopy there are stitched the names and birth dates of Lady strathmore's children Lady Elizabeth Bose Lion now her gracious Majesty the queen [Music] mother but Modern Life in Scotland doesn't rest only on a romantic past and romantic scenery one of the main centers of Highland life is in veress the capital of the north and here there are newspapers whose main business it is to report that life the circulation of a Highland newspaper may not by the standards of the big National dailies be large but it carries news to and from a large area and it has to keep in touch with many present day activities between the Atlantic Islands on the west and the North Sea on the east East separated by the hills and in the different Glens and valleys these activities go to make news in the highlands of today for instance what happens in the Caledonian Canal one of the most important waterways in Britain is news in the highlands the canal connects the Atlantic with the North Sea and joins the fishing Waters of the East and the West [Music] Highland cattle are famous all the world over in romantic paintings but these magnificent beasts have a more practical interest for the farmers who RAR them and who bring them to Market Rob Roy the free boter of the hills and his Clansman of the past were in their Lawless ways primitive ranchers they would be surprised to learn of the thriving modern industry that has grown out of their old [Music] Pursuit Waba the Water of Life or better known in simple English as whiskey the best whisky in the world is still drunk in the highlands of Scotland and is still [Music] scotch and you'll come across small townships devoted to the menu manufacturer of aluminium for there are new Industries in these mountainous [Music] regions all this The Traveler and the tourist conce for himself transman saw when they came from overseas for their great gathering in the mother country the country which gave their forefathers birth [Music] from The Lone sheing in the misty island mountains divide us and a waste of seas but still the blood is strong the heart is Highland and we in dreams behold the herdes [Music]