Tery Graves knows a lot about fighting fires. He's a battalion chief with the Fort Smith Fire Department. But he didn't know anything about playing the bagpipes -- or music, for that matter -- until a ...

If the meaningful message behind "Auld Lang Syne" is still thrumming in your head and your heart in the days following New Year's Eve, a time of year when so many people sing the nostalgic ballad, ...

Scottish poet Robert Burns famously wrote “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 as an ode to the dish made of sheep organs and grain. (Though perhaps he's even better known as the author of the song “Auld ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You know the drill. As the New Year's Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we're lucky, we finish our midnight ...

Tune the bagpipes! The Scots are getting ready for a fling. Jan. 25 marks the 257th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the Bard of Scotland. In his short lifetime of just 37 years, Robert Burns ...

"Auld Lang Syne" directly translates to "old long since" in 18th-century Scots. This essentially means times gone by or "old times." Think spirits, but not the ghost kind: "A cup of kindness" refers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The song is Scottish, which is fitting when you consider that in Scotland the New Year's celebration known as Hogmanay is of ...