Connery opens Alba House
According to China Daily, Sean Connery is opening Alba House as the New York City base of his Friends of Scotland charity. The building is a refurbished townhouse.
The Scotsman is convinced this project “will infuriate the Scottish government,”
Sir Sean Connery has turned a swanky Manhattan building into Alba House – a kind of unofficial Scottish embassy to be used by businessmen and academics from the old country when they need a base in the Big Apple.
The project is a fascinating one -not least because it will infuriate the Scottish government, whose own attempts at establishing a presence in the States have met with only limited success.
March 27, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Wow, Connery looks way way better than a few years ago. Before he looked like he was going to die any second, but now he looks great.
March 28, 2007 at 9:38 am
Sam, that picture is from 2004. It was the best one I could find with a kilt. I thought the kilt was appropriate to the subject.
July 7, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Where is Alba House in Manhattan and what goes on as a program there? would you like to have a Victorian portrait of Robert Burns or a lithograph of his funeral procession?
July 9, 2007 at 10:14 am
I actually don’t know the address.