Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
We do the same thing with George Washington, so it's not in any way a unique phenomenon. 
History in general is interesting enough in my mind without dressing it up. It's a shame sometimes that, especially for tourists, things tend to skew so much towards Sir Walter Scott and Brigadoon (or the local equivalent, if you're in the US.) I can't tell you how many times I heard the story of Burke and Hare in Edinburgh. You'd think nothing else happened in the City's history.
"To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning, and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and leaning a fond ear to the drone he may have parley with old folks of old affairs." - Neil Munro
Forgive if I am a tad cynical too, don't forget Sir Walter Scott was a professional romantic. It's a bit like BPC has slept in just about every house in the Highlands, planted every tree over 10ft high, hidden in every cave in Inverness-shire, OH and I was once earnestly informed by one American that he(BPC) built the Forth rail Bridge to get his army across!
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