Fred Buchanan (FB): It just so happens Alan that 55 years ago next month I arrived here in New York on a Scotch Whiskey ship. Well the first challenge I faced is that people couldn't understand me. I spoke perfectly plain English, but they couldn't understand me especially when Rs got in.

And I was speaking to some woman on the train and she said, What kind of vegetables to you have in Scotland?

I said, We have carrots.

She said, What?

Carrots.

And she said, I've never heard of those.

Alan Buchanan (AB): Tell me about meeting mom, and

FB: I was playing my bagpipes with the Salt Lake Scots. And your mother was in the audience. That was the first time she saw me. My mother-in-law says that she saw my legs and fell for them. I had my kilt on [laughs].

I got engaged the following August. As we stood on the banks, I asked her if she'd marry me. I held up my hand and I said, Look at those diamonds up in the sky the stars were just like diamonds and when her hand was up there, I slipped the ring on her finger.