Maxwelltown West Church

Greetings to you all.  I do hope that you have enjoyed some of the glorious summer sunshine and enjoyed a holiday away for a few days. Easter Day brought tragedy to our world in the awful Christian church bombings in Sri Lanka.  Over 250 people lost their lives, and over 500 injured, many with life changing injuries, whilst celebrating and…

The Martyr of the Solway memorial at Kippford is (was) a small wooden figure with red fishing-net hair, chained to a post in the Urr estuary.  It is (was) a memorial to the Wigtown Martyrs – two Covenanters, Margaret McLauchlan aged 63 and Margaret Wilson aged 18 (the young redhead represented in the painting “The Martyr of the Solway” by…

The autumn season of Max West Movies started on Friday September 13th at 7:00 p.m. with a screening of that musical/western classic of 1953 “Calamity Jane”, starring Doris Day as Calamity and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok.  Sing along to the Oscar-winning “Secret Love” and relive Doris Day’s performance described at the time as “busy as a fizzy sarsaparilla”….