Are there any plans to "keep the pot Boiling" through 2010?
Seeing as Robert Burns' 250th birthday will be in 2010 (his 1st birthday being in 1760).
We can't better this years visitor numbers as the Gathering was a fantastic crowd puller and will be missing next year but now we know who is interested in Burns. With the opening of the new Burns' Museum we need to promote the Burns' Corridor to the UK and others.
Make potential visitors aware of just what the south west has to offer. Before we do that, we need to make locals aware of what their communities have to offer. Burns' Corridor is not just Alloway and Dumfries, it is all of the towns, villages, farms, in between, beside and beyond.
From Largs to Gretna, there are places which Burns wrote about while visiting them on business and/or pleasure but there are also places we miss which have connections with iconic figures whose lives affected the world. See Burns' Corridor "Icon List" at: http://www.robertburnsfederation.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1284 for a sample of them. Perhaps "it was something in the watter" but there are people within this 15 mile tract of land who we admire for their artistry, innovation and/or bravery, and there are many people who would love to see where these icons lived, learned, loved, drammed or died if only they knew about them.
Tarmacadam, Gas Lighting, The Bicycle, Steam Navigation, The Steamboat, The Pneumatic Tyre, Penicillan, The US Navy, you name it.
Invite them to the home of Innovation.