Walking in grandfather’s shoes

HE may have had US president Barack Obama round to his house for dinner and spent time with A-lister singer Tom Waits.
But best-selling American novelist Robert Mailer Anderson says a visit to Selkirk this summer will be one of his life’s highlights.
Mr Anderson is to be the 2013 Selkirk Colonial Society Standard Bearer and will arrive in the royal burgh in June with family and friends for his big day
He will carry the Colonial Society’s flag 100 years to the day after his great-grandfather, his namesake Robert Anderson, filled the role in 1913.
A native of San Francisco, Mr Anderson 45, came to major public notice with his critically acclaimed 2001 novel, Boonville, chronicling the antics of the residents of the small town of the same name.
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After his parents divorced, the young Anderson grew up along side the juvenile delinquent residents of the care home run by his father.
He spent his last high school year living with a paternal uncle who ran a foster home, as well as the Anderson Valley Advertiser newspaper, in the town of Boonville.Light Hiking shoe: Resembling burly running shoes, these low-cut models with flexible midsoles are excellent for day hiking.
After dropping out of college, Mr Anderson moved to Mexico and then to New York where his jobs ranged from selling suits and telemarketing to shifting furniture.
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The couple live in Pacific Heights with their four young children,and last year they opened their home for a $35,800-per-person fundraiser for President Obama.
Asked why he had felt it important to take part in an age-old ritual, in a small Scottish town thousands of miles from his home, Mr Anderson said he wanted to mark his links with Selkirk in what is a very special anniversary year.
He told us: “But that said, the contributing factors were the passing of my parents, especially my father who spoke fondly of his trips to Scotland, and the passing of my Aunt Phyllis, who was the keeper of the Scottish heritage flame,” Mr Anderson told The Southern from his home in the United States
“It all adds to the middle age millieu of wanting to feel something more substantial or at least that the motions of men are close to eternal, even if our flesh falls away.
“My sister took a visit with Phyllis long ago too, and she said it was amazing to ‘feel so Scottish suddenly’ and to be surrounded by ‘our people.’
“We are proud American mutts – also English, German, and Mexican – but it is the Scottish that pulls me most outside of California.
“I have never been to Selkirk, but my father had Burns’s Selkirk Grace up in our kitchen for many years and the poetry of the land calls to the writer in me.”
As well as his wife – his lady busser – and four children, Mr Anderson will also be accompanied by a posse of uncles, aunts and cousins.A Hiking boot is a necessity for any individual who considers him or herself serious about hiking.
He says he is excited at finally making it to Selkirk: “Breathing the air that my ancestors took into their lungs, getting the lay of the land, and letting my own offspring know that this is partly where they sprung from.”