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The first golfer to win the Open, the man to instigate the Ryder cup, is all but unknown on his home turf.

One year a shooting star streaked across the night sky, and a good harvest followed. Since shooting stars were not at their command, the people set out to mimic them with home-made fireballs.

“I made up a variety of home-made equipment for us to experiment with, there being nothing on the market. Gas masks, motor tyre air pumps, an ‘open’ helmet made from a copper-wrapped dustbin lid – all helped us breath underwater.”

Carefully preserved in the bank at Aboyne is a small, leather-bound book which contains minutes of the birthing of the Aboyne Games.

It is a great chance to dress up. Like wearing a fancy hat at a wedding or at Ascot, you can be slightly larger-than-life.

Should we cut down 1,000,000 trees, release huge amounts of carbon by excavating a bog for turbine bases, and ruin a river to save us from global warming?

The one-time Aberdeen printer Thomas Bendelow became the most prolific designer of golf courses in the United States and Canada

‘The perfect foal’ suddenly appeared. A six-week-old black colt dancing around his mother, saying, “Look at me. Look at me.”

Whether evacuating a crag-bound climber in the corrie of Lochnagar, or searching for a crashed jet on Ben Macdui, the 30 members of Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team risk their lives, summer and winter, often in darkness and in appalling weather – and then raise money to pay for the privilege of doing so

Mel Edwards on the history of Aberdeenshire Cricket Club

Charlie Allan, a competitor in the Highland Games from 1954 to 1976 takes an affectionate look at this odd Scottish phenomenon.