Many thanks to Janet (Rowan) Scott, Sandy Barr, and Stan Stanfield of the Findhorn Community in Scotland for refreshing my memory of a trip taken over twenty years ago. Thanks to Mairi MacArthur for leads to early monastic communities, to Robert Jones for aerial photos of Iona, to Professor Michael O’Connell (Paleoenvironmental Research Unit, Department of Botany, National University of Ireland) for pollen studies that mention yew, to Donald Michael Craig, Donata Ahearn, Vyvyan Ogma Wyverne, and to Joyce Sweeny for help, advice, and support. Maureen Buchanan Jones deserves collaborative credit for her contribution to this book, and, as always, many thanks to Alexei Kondratiev for language assistance.