Abbotsford House which houses a small exhibition, gift shop and Ochiltree's Dining, a café/restaurant with views over the house and grounds. In 2014 it won the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award for its recent conservation project. Attribution Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. It is a Category A Listed Building. The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of , called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole,
On the Banks of the Old Raritan On the Banks of the Old Raritan "On the Banks of the Old Raritan" is a song, or "alma mater", associated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (previously Rutgers College and Rutgers University), in the United States. The original lyrics were written in 1873 by Howard Newton Fuller, an 1874 graduate of Rutgers College. Fuller quickly prepared the song as a school hymn for the college's Glee Club, an all-male choral ensemble, before a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey. Fuller chose to set the lyrics to the tune of melody, "On the Banks of the Old Dundee", a