Just off the B940 road in the Kingdom of Fife, and not far from the village of Ceres, lies a stone marker in a field, which reads: “Vincenzo Lunardi – Born in Lucca, Italy, in 1759. He ascended in a hydrogen balloon on the 5th of October 1785 from the garden of Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh. He landed at Coaltown of Callange in the parish of Ceres, having traveled 46 miles. This was the first aerial voyage in Scotland.” Lunardi (1759 – 1806) was quite the accomplished aerialist by the time…
