Book excerpt: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures
Some might say it’s preposterous to think an overview of a massive story repository such as Craigdarroch Castle can be reduced to not even two dozen objects. … Why twenty-one objects? The number may seem a bit arbitrary, but it comes from the desire to vary the story of the castle’s nineteenth-century beginnings and carry it forward to the current century for contemporary readers and for future generations, with each object used as a hook on which to hang a story and offer some context and tangential information. Craigdarroch Castle houses more than just the stories of the shipping, ...