The Road to the Isles a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949. The lyrics mention first the hills of the Isle of Skye (whose memory is calling the traveller west); then the successive locations he will pass on the way across the Western Highlands and Inner and Outer Hebrides. The locations mentioned are (in this order): the Cuillin Hills (on the Isle of Skye), Tummel and Loch Rannoch(both in Perthshire), Lochaber (a district in the western Scottish Highlands), Shiel (east of
Kirk in the Hills The interior also contains ceramic tile by Pewabic Pottery. The gardens contain sculpture by Marshall Fredericks. Kirk in the Hills Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian (1958) is a church located in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. Kirk in the Hills is situated on a 40-acre setting on Island Lake. It is of Gothic design and is patterned after the once-famous Melrose Abbey in Scotland that was built in the 13th century. The sanctuary is situated at the east end of Cedarholm, which was the home of Colonel Edwin S. George, whose gift of his home and estate in 1947 made the Kirk