If you ask the question; “Who was the first person to achieve powered flight using a heavier than air craft?”, the answer most people will give you, is Orville Wright. Some, particularly those who read my earlier story entitled Wright? Wrong!, will gleefully tell you it was actually Gustave Whitehead. Certainly, Gustave, who took… Read More

This story about a ghost dog, begins not with the birth of a puppy, as one might expect, but with the arrival of a bouncing baby boy. Robert, the latest addition to the Steuart clan, was born on 7th January 1804, less than 2 years before the family completed the construction of Ballechin House, their… Read More