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America’s Braemar:
Grandfather Mountain and the Re-birth of Scottish Identity Across U.S.A.
By Donald MacDonald, Co-Founder & First President, Grandfather Mountain (NC) Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans.
This magnificent volume is 490 pages in length with 220 photographs and illustrations, in a collectible 8 ½ x 11inch soft cover edition. |
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Following the success of the first (1956) event, scores of other Highland Games and Celtic Festivals began amid a veritable "roots explosion" across the US. In time, legions of clan, St Andrew's and Robert Burns societies were born along with new bagpipe bands and a country-wide interest in Celtic-style sports—stone-putting, weight-lifting, wrestling, hill-races and the strange 'ritual' of caber-tossing. There followed an annual Tartan Day observance, the design of different tartans, the study of Scottish history and genealogy, the birth of Celtic Rock Band and "ceilidh" evenings as well as many import companies and all-Scottish publications; contests in singing Scotland's traditional Gaelic songs; classes and workshops for Highland and Scottish country dancing, weaving, kilt-making, for learning to play pipes and drums, the "clarsach" (Celtic harp), Scots fiddle and "trump" (known in Appalachia as "the jaw-harp").
Today, such celebrations of Scottish identity continue in a variety of ways throughout the Continent. MacDonald's massive volume is a comprehensive history of the first half-century of the Grandfather Highland Games, Eastern America's largest "Gathering o' Scottish Clans." There are approximately 220 historical photographs that include participants in the many competitive events, a torchlight "Calling Out The Clans", Border collies herding sheep, a Gaelic "Mod", an outdoor Sunday worship, a "Kirkin'" ceremony and a parade of pipe bands and kilted clansfolk. And there is information about the origins of certain Scottish customs, patronymic names and pen portraits of famous Scots who came to the New World.
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This epic study of the revival of Scottish identity in the United States has been years in the making. Donald MacDonald, former Charlotte, NC, and Edinburgh, Scotland, journalist, co-founded the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games along with Agnes MacRae Morton.
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To Order:
Please send $35 check or money order
with $5 shipping and handling to:
Southern Lion Books
Historical Publications
1280 Westminster Way
Madison, Georgia 30650 |
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