One can read about the ancient parish of Buccleuch, of the difficulty of keeping within budget while building the new kirk in 1826, of the defence of this kirk in 1886 when there was talk of the Free Kirk coming to the valley, of the school and the contentious court cases which the heritors of the kirk had to deal with.
Learn about the times of Thomas Boston and James Hogg, and the fact that when roads were improved and the man sent from Glasgow to hang the new bell could do it in one day and return to Glasgow by bedtime.
Those interested in their family connection to Ettrick will find their interest stirred.
The starting point for all of this was the discovery of old papers in a carved wooden box. The story went that the box was carved from a piece of ashwood from the "dule tree", the hanging tree at Tushielaw Tower. This was verified by a letter sent in 1888 from the Rev. John Falconer to T. Craig Brown, who had just given the kirk his famous work, The History of Selkirkshire.