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Blake Mayo slices into the Haggis, a traditional dish of
Scotland
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Why is there a Burns Dinner in Canaseraga celebrating
Scotland’s bard who passed away over 200 years ago, because the village exists
in the Town of Burns. Residents conjecture that with no founding families named
Burns, the town’s fathers chose to name their home after the iconic poet
because of their Scots/Irish descent and its similarities to the Scottish
Highlands.
“Robert Burns was a common man, a farmer and bard who was
widely popular among the common man,” noted historian Lauren Oliver who gave
“The Immortal Memory Address” commemorating the poet, a traditional part of any
Robert Burns Dinner.
The group celebrated with songs, poetry, bagpipe music and
more than one “wee drams” of scotch. Several were dressed in traditional kilts
or wearing their clan tartans including bagpiper Chet Norton who played
authentic music for the event. Andy Carbone of JC’s Café in Hornell catered the
dinner.
With odes to his many paramours and the common life of the
ploughman farmer Burns’ poetry is familiar to most people in the words of the
song, “Auld Lang Syne,” which concluded the evening.
