Secrets of the Session Talk (Spott)

Part of Heritage Fortnight

Secrets of the Session – Life in a Rural Parish

Dr David Anderson, a founder member of Dunbar and District History Society, will give a talk covering the routine of day-to-day collections, disbursements and the knottier problems that the elders and minister wrangled over – witchcraft, flyting, Church ordinances, Kirk maintenance, murder and the other emergencies that cropped up from time to time.

A Question-and-Answer session will follow thereafter with an opportunity to view a complementary display of aspects of parochial history through photographs, extracts from original records, etc.

The church will also be open to view the displays and the 1650 Battle of Dunbar Exhibition on Wednesday mornings throughout the summer, including on the Wednesdays (3rd and 10th September) and the morning of Saturday (6th September) during the Archaeology & Heritage Fortnight.  On Sunday 14 September it will be open from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

Free.  Booking required