Comments on: Hamish Moore's final article for 2008

By: Lyle Crawford

Lyle Crawford — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:02:49 +0000

The truth is, we really need two Hamish Moores. One for Barga and one for Scotland. It has been a joy following the blogs, and it will be a joy to catch up with you again in your iconic workshop at Dunkeld, or maybe even here in North Berwick. Your father lives in the house I was born in overlooking the beach and the sea and Fife beyond and the sun is shining today, perhaps to welcome you home. What a great adventure you have had. It has been a joy sharing it with you.

Lyle

By: Deety

Deety — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:43:25 +0000

Hamish, my new “incrociato” has stoped me going to Aristo’s for the past few weeks… I think it’s my round so take a strol down for a glass of wine.

By: poetry

poetry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:02:06 +0000

Ciao Hamish. We met but once, but once we met I immediately realized why I had seen your smiling face so often on these pages. Best of everything and perhaps we’ll meet again. Ciao Hamish. Kerry

By: Jesse and Heidi

Jesse and Heidi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:27 +0000

Seamus…..

What a treat for us to read what you write and listen to your music of Barga. You have been able to bridge and connect so much about Barga in so short a time with your writing (new to you) and your music (a language that you have always had). You have done this so well and with such respect and poignancy. Heidi and I were lucky enough to be discovering and learning about Barga when you first were as well. I remember you talking to me quietly about finding your voice in Barga, your first voice of course was your music, but you went further than that with your writing, and then further still with your learning of Italian allowing you to communicate even more, but then you have gone furthest of all with your ability to combine these three voices in discovery and celebration of all that is Barga.
I look forward to soon raising a Toquino to you in Aristo’s… and hope that you will be there by the heater to join me in a toast well deserved!
All the best and our love,

Jesse and Heidi

By: izzy

izzy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:39:04 +0000

I only met you for a short time in August but you felt like a friend. I will be thinking of you and your Dad and hope our paths cross again sometime, maybe in Aberdeen.
Take care.

By: RW

RW — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:38:01 +0000

Till another time. Thanks to you all . Tioraidh an Drasda. RW

By: Monacu

Monacu — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:16:41 +0000

It’s true, as Hamish Moore writes, that Barga leaves a lasting mark on those who genuinely share its life. But they leave their mark too. One of the most remarkable things about this town — part of its animating spirit — is a keen sense of the extraordinary qualities that people like Hamish bring to the mix that defines a community. If part of you will always be barghigiano, Hamish, it’s equally true for the rest of us that a corner of the Piazza Angelio will remain “our piper’s workshop.”