I have the help of the Friends of Innerpeffray who talk made about the Scottish stern Calvinistic religious temper. This is a fine remembrance of  children taken from the Drummond family in the 17th century.

There is not a lot of levity, the chapel that first housed the library is a stern plan , the space of the first first accessible with difficulty.

This is my favorite way to approach the  library that was set up so that people could make of their education. Scottish education was extended to all members of society and the public library for anyone in the employ or patronage of the Drummond family.

The benevolence extends till today with the fees for my day at the library being waived as part of Madertie Month at Innerpeffray – free entry on honour of its Founder, sponsored by the Friends of Innerpeffray Library.

I found myself with a group of Edinburgh women who had come to visit the library and listen members of the Friends of the pace.

We could read the books of the Library’s most distant ownership and understand that that these understand were lent to be reading to all society. Here is what they continue “honourable” in the 17th century

Of course the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century is what we think of as its highpoint but the road that crossed the river at Innerpeffray was built by the Romans to get settlement to the north of Perth.

But let’s not forget that it was forged in Calvinistic thinking that we were simply preparing ourselves for death and beyond, As you walk around the place (near Crieff) you are not in a sent of frivolity.

I ate my picnic in the schoolroom beside the chapel with a very real sense of reverence for forebears who had built this. Even if my picnic has some English Stilton in its ingredients.

I was made aware that I was welcome as were English books, many of the books are in French and there is currently an exhibition of books with the comments of readers in the margins. They were a stern lot, no frivolity.

I cannot give my proper thanks in this blog, this place has now been visited three times by me and I can only give  the Fronds this and , some  blogs now ten years old.