Maybole’s webmaster Rich Pettit
visited the birthplace of his ancestors recently and
was presented with a pair of whisky glasses etched
with the Castle and the Town Hall. The presentation
was made by Michael Connell, vice chair and
secretary of Maybole Community Council, as a token
of appreciation for the work Rich has done as the
web site enters its 15th year of
existence.
The town’s web master lives in
Clearwater, Florida and was visiting Maybole with
his wife Elaine and son Mark. He thanked Michael for
the gift and explained that, for various reasons
including family and work commitments, he has been
unable to keep the web site as up to date as it was
a year or so ago when it was regularly attracting a
million page hits per month.
While here he had the opportunity to
discuss what was needed for the future and will be
back in touch soon with some proposals. Maybole’s
web site www.maybole.org started in August 1999. On
the site Rich says, “This site was started out of a
desire to share with other family history
researchers the information I had gathered about my
ancestral home of Maybole.
“Shortly after posting a few pages of
the site to the Internet I was contacted by David
Kiltie, Chairman of the Maybole Community Council.
“David asked if I was ‘prepared to see the site
expanded?’ And so it has been. What you see today
is the result of the cooperative involvement of the
residents of Maybole, Maybole's Internet community
at large and in no small measure David Kiltie.”
