Hundreds of people from Snohomish County and surrounding areas gathered at the Nile Shrine Center in Mountlake Terrace on Saturday to remember Burns, whose Jan. 25, 1759, birthday is celebrated worldwide.
Clad in suits, dresses and kilts, the birthday-party guests honored Burns with Scottish dancing and a feast following a couple hours of Scotch whisky tasting.
“He was such a prolific poet, and he was a well-known Freemason,” said Carl Alexander, general secretary for Seattle Scottish Rite of Free Masonry.
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