Robert Burns Memorial (Barre) Three each depict a scene from a Burns poem,"The Cotter's Saturday Night", "To a Mountain Daisy", and "Tam o' Shanter's Ride". The fourth panel depicts Burns' cottage in Ayr, Scotland. The statue shows the poet returning from his day's work, in ploughman's dress, sleeves rolled up, bareheaded, his coat on his arm, eyes on the ground, and with an attitude and expression of thoughtful meditation. In January 1890, the Robert Burns Club of Barre was founded as a social and literary group in honor of Burns. On July 21, 1896, the fifty-member club met to commemorate the centenary of Burns'
George Burns reading fine print. Burns suffered a head injury after falling in his bathtub in July 1994 and underwent surgery to remove fluid in his skull. Burns never fully recovered and all performances celebrating his 100th birthday were canceled. In December 1995, a month before his 100th birthday, Burns was well enough to attend a Christmas party hosted by Frank Sinatra (who turned 80 that month), where he reportedly caught the flu, which weakened him further. When Burns was 96, he had signed a lifetime contract with Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas to perform stand-up comedy there, which included the guarantee