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'
Ric Burns Ric Burns Ric Burns (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series "The Civil War" (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Burns moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan at an early age, and attended Columbia University and Cambridge University, breaking from his graduate work to join his brother on the production of the "Civil War" series. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several