Burns Club Atlanta
The Burns Club of Atlanta, officially organized in 1896, is a private social club and literary and cultural society commemorating the works and spirit of the 18th century national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. In addition to holding monthly meetings, the club has held a Burns Supper celebration on the anniversary of Burns' birthday every year since 1898. Club events are held in the Atlanta Burns Cottage, a 1911 replica of poet Robert Burns' birthplace in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Cottage has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.
Read more about Burns Club Atlanta: History, A Tradition of Socially Diverse Membership, Literature and Fellowship, The Atlanta Burns Cottage, Scottish Vernacular Architecture: Butt, Ben and Byre, Other Architectural Additions and Alterations
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“See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they’re grown
Debauchery and Drinking:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)