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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 11:23 pm:

When we bought our trailer in 2004, it was to haul the Model T to tours that were too far away to drive to. (This is a concept that Dean Yoder is unable to comprehend, by the way.) That has remained its principal use. I have noted through the years that there is a tendency on the part of kids who are moving to ask Dad if he will bring the trailer to help. This happens seldom, but happens. The rarest use of our trailer is as the stage for the ceremonies at the St. Louis Scottish Games. After a two-year hiatus, the Games are back, and so is this requirement.

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If anyone is interested in Scottish stuff, I have an album of photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=214477&id=672957724&l=4940b7e813

If you're not, don't click on it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Robb on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 11:33 pm:

Thank you Dick.

Looking at photo #45, I could actually hear the beautiful sound of Amazing Grace wafting cross the glen.

Bob Robb, Clan McFarlane


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 11:47 pm:

The Celtic Gathering is in Grass Valley this weekend also. For the wee bit o' Irish and Scottish in all of us.
(And my trailer has been used for moving more than transporting antique cars.)
And I love the sound of bagpipes. W2


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 11:47 pm:

Bob, it was emotional. The pipers in the foreground (a band from Springfield IL) played the opening, and then the massed bands joined in. It was a good closing to a good day and a half.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dewey on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 12:43 am:

The real reasons Pipers march while they play?
Some of them are trying to get away from the noise; the others figure it's harder to hit a moving target!

Heh heh heh
T'
David D.
(And I love the sound too, Wayne--we had a piper at Linda's Dad's service. He played "going home" from the chapel to the gravesite, and then "Amazing Grace" --and Linda's Dad was German--but we thought it fitting)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dolores Fillman, Edinburg,Tex on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 01:17 am:

How do you determine your clan? My grandmother had a Scottish surname,both her parents Scottish descent. Here's the name: Scott, one in a million, or two.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 08:55 am:

Dolo, the absolute purists say you have to have been born with the surname, the less strict say you can go back as far as your grandmother. Since my Scottish ancestry is from my grandmother, I prefer that theory. If the name is Scott, determining your clan won't be hard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Scott

http://www.clanscottsociety.org/


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dolores Fillman, Edinburg,Tex on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 02:58 pm:

Dick,
Thanks, I'll stay away from purists. I was hoping I could compare tartans and crests and decide which I liked best. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 03:09 pm:

The Scott tartan is predominantly red. You can see it in the Wikipedia entry. Clan Scott was represented in the parade of tartans at our Games. If I'd known we were going to have this discussion, I'd have taken their picture.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dolores Fillman, Edinburg,Tex on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 03:15 pm:

I saw it in the wiki entry. Thanks again. Was very interested to see the genealogical sites, since we (a Scott relative and I) haven't found our original immigrant to the US.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 03:24 pm:

So get yourself a kilt skirt or a sash in the Scott tartan and head to one of these events:

http://texcelt.org/Festivals.html

By the way, one of the vendors at our games was offering a T-shirt that read, "It's a kilt. If I were wearing something under it, it would be a skirt."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By CharlieB-Toms River N.J. on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 06:33 pm:

Wasn't there a posting/photo of a Model T Band that rode around on a trailer?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 06:51 pm:

CharlieB, I can't remember a specific one, but in the Greentree parade this year (that I posted about in a different thread), there was at least one band on a flatbed trailer. As I recall, they had a small portable generator powering their amplifier.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dolores Fillman, Edinburg,Tex on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 08:11 pm:

We used our car trailer last year to light fireworks from on the 4th of July, easier to light a bunch in a row, and not on dry grass.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By CharlieB-Toms River N.J. on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 11:04 pm:

No Dick, this was some old time photograph and it may have had some thing to do with the Ford Motor Company itself. Tried a search. N.G.


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