Scotland's Bard's links to Mauchline were commemorated once again with two annual engagements taking place recently.

Robert Burns became a Freemason in the Tarbolton Lodge on July ... is a poem full of Masonic references and symbols composed when the poet believed he was going to leave Scotland for Jamaica.

holds pride of place over the fireplace of the museum of the Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland in Edinburgh. A dedicated Freemason throughout his adult life, the poet ...