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[OC Richard]

Ballantrae.... baile an(n) traigh? (town on/at/in the shore?)

BTW Thornton is a common name back home (West Virginia), our neighbors were named Thornton. And there's a nice tune, Thornton's Jig/ The Thornton Jig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot48Zt7sA3Q

Anyhow have a great trip!

BTW there in Lexington you might run into my old friend Gene Smarte, who plays drums and pipes, and who has been playing pipes with The Kentucky United Pipes & Drums.

Here he his, with the big muttonchops, third from right in the back row

http://www.kentuckyunited.org/