Hype for the Future 74D: Galloway and the Scottish Lowlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Overview

The region known as Galloway, largely associated with the southwest of the country of Scotland, is related to the name for the central City of Glasgow located in Lanarkshire. Outside Lanarkshire, however, the region is also quite notable in a number of surrounding counties, including Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Renfrewshire, and possibly Kirkcudbrightshire. Elsewhere in the region, the significance of communities is largely determined by facing the Province of Ulster in Ireland across the Irish Sea and associated with the Scots-Irish and overall British colonization of Ireland. Today, the Counties Armagh, Antrim, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone could be identified as culturally continuous with Galloway, though the regions remain clearly distinct as one is in Ireland and the other is in Scotland. Today, the most notable communities on the Scottish side include Ayr, Kilmarnock, Dumfries, Renfrew, and Glasgow, with Kirkcudbright as a possible periphery community. Wigtown, further south, may or may not also be identified within the region, though Wigtownshire and surrounding shires represent the southern extent of Scotland, with Cumberland in modern England directly to the south beyond the Anglo-Scottish borderlands.

Hype for the Future 13A: The Kilmarnock Inn

Within the Town of Kilmarnock, in the Northern Neck region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is an interesting lodging area with eight (8) available cottage rooms to potentially select between. Three (3) of the eight rooms are also pet-friendly rooms—the Tippecanoe, the Taylor, and the Tyler. Apart from the room differences, the Kilmarnock Inn also contains a courtyard area, encouraging a sense of community for such a small town. While community life is often the default in regions such as New England, traditional Southern culture would identify such communal lifestyles as discouraged in an effort to maintain the family standing, order, and reputation.