Episode 7

A Kist o Wurds

Liam Logan invites Kist listeners on a trip to Pennsylvania, visiting places and discovering topics connected with the Ulster-Scots, or Scots-Irish, settlers who came there in the 1700s.

Charlene Boyd Kemp, President of the Scottish Society of Central Pennsylvania, discovers treasures in the State Library; hears about the notorious Paxton Boys from church historian Ronald Wickes, and uncovers evidence of a claim for £7 from the 1750s, which chased a man from Co Down all the way across the Atlantic.

Colin Brooks finds Ulster-Scots settlers celebrated on a mural that rivals the best in Northern Ireland, and we hear that these settlers, with names like McFarland, Chambers, McCullough and Drennan, brought with them place names such as Antrim, Lisburn, Donegal and Strabane.

This week's A Kist o Wurds was produced by Blackthorn Productions for BBC Radio Ulster. The production team were Chris Spurr and Karl Walker. For any queries about the programme, please email kist@bbc.co.uk or telephone 028 9033 8435.