Our brilliant mind this week is Ellen Hamilton, author of A Scottish Migration to Alexandria, which chronicles the histories of Scotland and Alexandria through the story of William Gregory’s 1807 migration to our city.

Ellen shares how Westminster’s gift of a world trip to her grandparents may have been the reason she spent a large part of her childhood in Germany. She and Jacob discuss the creative process that went into the writing of her book, which began as a documentary film; and how being from a family of writers and her training in graphic arts contributed to the project and her love of making it.

Ellen is owner of Yellow Dot Designs, publisher of Faith and Race: One Church's Response to the Civil Rights Movement, and granddaughter of Westminster’s second pastor, the Rev. Dr. Cliff Johnson. You can see art and video from her book project at https://scottishmigration-film.com/. Her Sunday morning class can be attended or heard at https://wpc-alex.org/adult/.