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Loch Earn, Scotland, 1938

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The Ville de Havre struck a British clipper, the Loch Earn, halfway in it its journey across the Atlantic. Hamilton Murray, Class of 1872, and his sister, Martha, died along with 224 others in the crash and subsequent sinking of the ship. He left $20,000--more than half a million dollars in today's currency--to Princeton's Philadelphian Society for their use in constructing Murray Hall.

Princeton Alumni Weekly Photograph Collection (AC126), Box 23.

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My mum sent a photo that I’ve not seen before. It’s my father and grandfather, snapped on a sunny day in August 1945 near Comrie, Scotland. I’ve walked these same fields many times over the years. The photographer is unknown.

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Loch Earn

This is perhaps one of the most beautiful lochs in Scotland and these photos hardly do it justice (I tried to capture driving along the shores in my Ben Vorlich vlog). If I had a million pounds, I’d be buying a house next to Loch Earn in no time (wink wink, Universe). We went up Ben Vorlich, a munro (one of 277 mountains in Scotland that are at least 3,000 feet / 914 meters high), and drove around the whole loch on the way there and back. If you visit Scotland for a road trip, do yourself a favour and stop by Loch Earn.

Here’s the post about going up Ben Vorlich.