Newport Celtic Festival 2014

Newport was great as always...this was their (and our) 4th year. Saturday saw lots of folk, the weather was sunny and a bit breezy, but not as windy as last year! Sunday started out wet, but the rain cleared off after noon. I will post pictures tomorrow.

The Cattleman who brought the wee highland cows found out that he was part of Clan Donald...I don't think we got a picture of him (or the cows) it is hard to do it with just the two of us manning the tent. Talked to a lot of nice folk and managed to steer quite a few in the right direction when they were not a Donald. I have some pages to scan and send to people who found some information in our genealogy books. And we had a chance to catch up with many clan folk who we only get to see during the season.

Had a grand time with the Irish fella who sold the swords...he put on a great show and he knows our Idaho Commissioner Sharon Goff! I know we got his picture (and his name).

We were next to a lady who did marvelous leatherwork...and we discussed maybe having a get together or 2 with them giving us some lessons...so, keep tuned for more info on that going forward.

Kate
(still recuperating)

Eugene Scottish Festival 2014 pictures

Eugene Scottish Festival

We attended the Eugene Scottish Festival this last Saturday...it was held back at the church this year, and while the school site had many perks...we still like this site better! We were down on the end of clan row and had a great view of the whole festival!

Lot's of folk stopped by the tent to chat, including a lot of MacKillops who were MacDonalds of Keppoch...so it was a pleasure to direct them to speak with Ivan, our State Chaplain.

We sold 3 of the NPR cookbooks and are happy to welcome a returning member, Matt McDonald!

We did get pictures and I will post them as soon as we get them uploaded from the camera. Next event will be the Newport Games in June.

Kate

Links Updated!

I have finished updating the North Pacific Region Links...all the Festivals and Games for Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Washington are now there. If you see one I missed, drop me a line and let me know!

This coming weekend is the Eugene Highland Festival, hope to see you there! It is also the Friends of MacDonald's annual celebration in Astoria.

Kate

Links

I have checked and verified the Links for Clan Donald and for all the Oregon events. I will get the links checked and updated for all the NPR events and get the Montana events added to that list over the next week or so.

Kate

Albany Scottish Festival

The Albany Festival is not happening again this year, but according to their page, they will be back in 2015. We look forward to attending this fine event again next year.

April 1st

Hunt the Gowk (Scotland)

 On this day people would play tricks and tell lies to catch each other out. But the jokes had to stop at mid-day. Now called April Fool's Day, hunting the gowk was originally sending someone on a foolish errand to hand someone a paper with the words "Dinna laugh, an' dinna smile But hunt the gowk another mile." The "fool" would then be sent on to the next person to find.