The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust is launching a campaign to reimagine the farm where the famed poet lived for three years. Project curator Adam Dickson, trust chair Duncan Dornan and project director Joan McAlpine stand at the gate of the farm.

New Year’s Eve wouldn’t be complete without a few renditions of Auld Lang Syne , a poem written by Robert Burns more than 200 years ago and set to a traditional Scottish ballad.

Burns drew inspiration for Auld Lang Syne and 130 other songs and poems while living at Ellisland, a farm near Dumfries in western Scotland.

For 234 years, the 54.6-hectare property, which Burns designed and built, has gone largely unnoticed and even the poet’s biggest fans barely knew it existed.

A charity that took over the farm five years ago hopes to bring new li

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