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Volume 36 Number 11 The world’s largest international Scottish newspaper May 2013 Publisher Offices of publication Valerie Cairney Australasian Office: PO Box 6202 The land of myths and legends Editor Marrickville South, Sean Cairney NSW, 2204 In 1934, a London doctor snapped over the globe, with massed pipes and Tel:(02) 9559-6348 EDITORIAL STAFF a photograph that seemed to show a drums, military bands, display teams, Jim Stoddart [email protected] dinosaur looking creature emerging dancers and the haunting lament The National Piping Centre from the deep and cold water. of the Lone Piper set against the North American Office: David McVey Dozens of sightings have since been magnificent backcloth of Edinburgh [email protected] Lady Fiona MacGregor claimed, many of which have turned Castle. The Tattoo must be on many Eric Bryan David C. Weinczok out to be hoaxes, while others make people’s bucket list, or if like me you Judy Vickers you wonder what that could be. In 2009, have attended, it is an event you feel Nick Drainey a newspaper reader claims to have lucky to have experienced. Getting to spotted ‘Nessie’ whilst browsing Edinburgh for many Scottish Banner Google Earth’s satellite photos of Loch readers is not always easy so this by Sean Cairney Ness. The Loch Ness Monster is used in month thousands of people will be Follow us on social media Google searches about 200,000 times able to attend the incredible Tattoo cotland is a land of myths per month. Regardless of the truth, the live as it marches into Sydney. and legends. The history and suggestion of the monster’s existence Our Canadian readers will have the stories of the nation have makes Loch Ness one of Scotland’s chance to get up close as well with its inspired generations of people most popular tourist attractions, with cinema release happening also this month. 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Send us your inquiries on life’s little question marks. Ever wanted to know what happened to your old pal from home, how to make SCOT POURRI your favourite Scottish meal, or wondered about a certain bit of Scottish history? SS Waverley On Loch Lomond was a paddle steamer The Kelpies, oor Caledonian Colossus called the Maid of the Loch, a beautiful paddle steamer owned by and operated by, at that time, British Rail. My family could never afford the cost of a trip on her, let alone a meal as the costs were decided on somewhere in England. On my last return to Scotland, I was appalled at the condition of such a beautiful lady- ‘the Lady of the Loch’. On the other side of the world, on Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand I read in the July edition of the Scottish is the SS Earnslaw, about the same age as Banner, the sad state of the paddle steamer the Maid of the Loch or the SS Waverley. SS Waverley. My family and I travelled on It takes passengers, locals as well as tourists her when I was only a wee lad. I remember daily, and in the evening takes people on a it well, she was a lovely ship, and is worthy cruise and a fab three course meal. of restoring at all costs. Our family moved So, come on all Scots and non-Scots, to Alexandria, Dunbartonshire near Loch support all three famous ships in all three Lomond. We had a wonderful time there world famous destinations. With Halloween fast approaching it’s thair murky watery pit. Drowning and swimming, boating and camping and I Vince Flynn quite an appropriate time to reflect on devouring them mercilessly, in frantic believe Loch Lomond to be the world’s Pegasus Town, Canterbury one of Scotland’s “mythical beasties” struggle as they sank. Feeding thair most famous lake. New Zealand The Kelpies. When I was back home in demonic appetite, and spitting thair Scotland in 2014, I managed to cram in a entrails on the bank. lot of historical visits, like Bannockburn In horse like form they grazed the banks, and the Wallace Monument, but so FROM OUR SOCIAL MEDIA saddled and bridled tae lure. Tae catch close, yet so far, I missed out on the Send your photos or letters via social media the eye of a weary wanderer, aye tae set a Kelpies monuments. Even on paper trap for sure. And if anyone thought thair Blackness Castle they look so impressive, it must be quite luck was in, and climbed upon it’s back. something to sail under them, it’s almost Again they’d jump into the deepest water, like they’re Scotland’s modern day take tae begin thair grisly attack. on the ancient “Colossus monument ” of Rhodes (only 3 metres smaller I believe). Noo this went on fur centuries, but folk And definitely a candidate for one of the got wise tae thair ways. And gradually seven wonders of Scotland, but going they disappeared, like Scots mist of the back to mythical beast of the Kelpies, I morning haze It’s been said they changed would love to share this wee poem I’ve thair evil ways, when a fine maiden written with our readers of their origins. broke thair curse. And that all thair power ebbed away and ebbed into the The Kelpies, oor Caledonian Colossus Clydesdale horse. In the auld ancient days in oor lochs and burns , in Scotland’s deepwater course Noo when you gaze upon the Clydesdale, There lived a cursed aquatic beast, that you’d think this could be right. For they took the form of a horse. Aye and the pulled us through an Industrial age, that locals called them Kelpies, and tae the set the world alight with massive strength bairns they instilled thair fear. And from and endurance, of great power and great the youngest age they heard savage tales heart. And still never far from the waters and were telt tae stay well clear. edge, hauling great barges and carts.

The Kelpie was a cunning beast, some say Those days are gone, but remembered Blackness Castle, film location for theOutlaw King & Outlander etc. the devil incarnate, also taking the form noo with great monuments tae oor past. Robert Gibb of man or maiden, then using themselves And like Scotland’s industrial heritage, Scotland as bait. But they would have a giveaway, standing proudly they will last. Aye but despite thair charming moves. With bits theres none so great and none so bold Black sheep of sea grass in thair hair and still keeping tae our Kelpies/Clydesdale horses than thair devil like hooves. Andy Scott’s Kelpie monuments, oor Caledonian Colossus! They wid lure thair victims across tae them, with deviant charm and wit. Andy Heaney Then drag them doon in the river, tae Brisbane, Australia

World Pipe Band Championships It can be unfortunate when kids who get great mentoring in schools leave the pipes and drums behind after they complete their studies. I hope that some, or should I say many, carry on the tradition and take their knowledge learnt with them to teach the next generation. Being involved in pipe bands is so rewarding, both musically and socially. You get to attend some fantastic Thanks for a great round up on the 2019 World events, meet great people and at times travel Pipe Band Championships. I am an ex-piper to places you would otherwise not visit. and continue to have a great interest in this May the next generation carry on piping Lovely Black Sheep up at Tarbert Castle, beautiful beast. competition each year. I was also so happy to and drumming with Amazing Grace! GN Photography read that so many of the pipers and drummers Alex MacLeod Scotland competing were under 25. The pipe band Vancouver, British Columbia movement needs young people to keep it going. Canada

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Page 4 • The Scottish Banner • October 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER The Braemar Gathering-Scotland’s Royal Gathering

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(Duke of Rothsay), his wife Camilla, Duke of Fife Memorial Park in Braemar, Duchess of Cornwall and Autumn Phillips Scotland. Her Majesty is patron of the From left HM The Queen, The Duke of Rothesay, Autumn Phillips and husband and husband Peter Phillips (Princess Highland games event, which takes place Peter Phillips and Katharine Nicolson, wife of BRHS Vice Patron Cpt. Mark Nicolson. Anne’s son and daughter-in-law). a short distance from the royals’ summer Images courtesy of the Braemar Gathering Annual. courtesy of the Braemar Images residence Balmoral. It draws both local housands of people enjoyed the Gathering in 1848, Queen Victoria took a A royal part people and visitors from around the world. 2019 Braemar Highland Gathering, close interest both in the Society and the Welcoming Her Majesty The Queen For further details on the Braemar one of Scotland’s most iconic Gathering, and in 1866 ordered that the and family to the event in the afternoon Gathering see: www.braemargathering.org Gatherings. Royal connections title “Royal” should be added to the name commentator Robert Lovie also noted the Tare closely associated with Braemar, from of the Society. Her Majesty The Queen was passing of Bill Anderson one of the great the time of her first appearance at the accompanied by Prince Charles heavies on the games circuit for many decades. Spotted in the crowd, just a few feet from the Royal Pavilion was another “Queen”, Dame Judie Dench who played a royal part in at least two major movies. Competition among the heavies was really keen with Czech Vlad Tulacek breaking the five-year-old record for throwing 56lb weight over the bar one handed. The Queen first attended the Braemar event as a seven-year-old child in 1933 and has attended most years since coming to Top heavy Lucasz Wenta on the the throne in 1952. The Braemar Gathering, weight for distance. Massed bands. is always held on the first Saturday in September in The Princess Royal and Tartan of the Month

Nessie Tartan

The Scottish Banner is pleased contemporary tartans from to be offering the Tartan of the Scotland and throughout the world. Month series highlighting a Text and image use is courtesy of the variety of different, unique and Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT). colourful tartans from around his month we feature the Nessie the world which are registered Tartan (SRT reference: 12544) with the Scottish Register of and designed by Mairi MacLeod Tartans in Edinburgh. and registered in July, 2019. Inspired, designed and made in Scotland. TCreated for Loch Ness monster lovers The Scottish Register of Tartans all over the world. Colours: dark blue for was established by an act of the Loch Ness; green for the hills and glens Give this Christmas a Scottish flavour with a tartan treat Scottish Parliament in November surrounding Loch Ness; white for the from Dunmore Scotland. clouds reflecting on the loch; blue for 2008 and promotes and preserves the skies of a sunny highland day and dunmorescotland.com + 44 (0)1968 660 078 information about historic and the dark colour of Nessie’s skin.

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Scotspeak is a selection of quotes which made headlines in SCOTSPEAK Scotland last month on a variety of current Scottish affairs. powerful yet elegant technique has also already in place. There is no doubt that stories of those people, and give the world brought a new maturity to the popular its implementation is crucial considering a reason to come back to Paisley. The debate about what much larger creatures the benefits that will be delivered – we museum is central to a wider investment might sometimes be seen here.” simply can’t ignore the need to change the in Paisley’s venues and outdoor spaces, way we use our city. With our population embedding culture and events at the Adrian Shine, Leader of the Loch Ness set to expand rapidly over the next 20 heart of how we are transforming our Project, said as a DNA investigation into years in the face of various challenges, historic town centre and putting it back the fascinating watery inhabitants of Loch including the increasingly urgent issue on the map as a destination. The beautiful Ness has been revealed by researchers. 250 of our climate emergency response, this images revealed today show how this water samples were taken from the length, strategy will help us to build resilience, wonderful historic building will at once breadth and depth of Loch Ness, UK’s “Pipe band music sits at the very heart making sure Edinburgh’s centre continues be preserved and modernised, and ensure biggest loch by volume freshwater. The of Scotland’s culture and communities, to thrive, delivering economic, social and this proud symbol of Paisley’s past is at the DNA from those samples was extracted celebrated the length and breadth of environmental benefits for everyone.” heart of its future.” and sequenced, resulting in around 500 the country, and I’m heartened to see million sequences that have now been Councillor Lesley Macinnes, Transport Councillor Lisa-Marie Hughes, chair of so many young people continuing this analysed against existing databases. Loch and Environment Convener, said as a Renfrewshire Leisure, said as the first vibrant tradition. I have the greatest Ness and the ‘Nessie’ phenomenon is “game-changing” £314m plan to transform images showing how Paisley Museum respect for all the tutors and volunteers worth millions to the Scottish economy. Edinburgh’s city centre over the next 10 will become a world-class destination who dedicate their time throughout the Hundreds of thousands of visitors travel to years has been submitted for approval. showcasing the stories of a Scottish town year to nurturing young talent. I would the loch and Drumnadrochit every year to The plans backed by 80% of Edinburgh whose influence reached around the also like to pay tribute to the work of the catch a glimpse of the mythical monster. residents includes investment in improved globe have been revealed. The museum is Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association public spaces, inclusive access and undergoing a £42m transformation into and to extend a warm welcome to all the prioritisation of travel on foot, by bicycle a leading European museum telling the international bands for the commitment and on public transport. stories of Paisley’s people and Pattern, they make to travel across the world to and home to its internationally-significant attend one of the star events in Scotland’s collections. When it reopens in 2022, cultural calendar.” the reimagined museum is expected to Scotland’s Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop draw audiences from Scotland, the UK said as served as Chieftain at the World and abroad - almost quadrupling visitor Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow numbers to 125,000 a year. in August. The two-day event, held on “Sad to hear this morning that Glasgow Green, showcased the number “It’s clear that there’s widespread public Scotland’s oldest man, Perth and Kinross of young people taking up the pipes support for our ambitious plans for based Alf Smith of St Madoes has passed and drums, with up to 40% of the 8,000 City Centre Transformation, which away aged 111 years and 128 days. When competitors under the age of 25. he was 100, he bought a new washing will be game-changing in terms of the “Few places of Paisley’s size can claim The benefits of playing in pipe bands machine and decided on a 10 year way people move around our city, how such global impact - the town created include increased confidence, teamwork, extended warranty! Optimism seems to services are delivered and the positive a global fashion icon, was once the creativity and concentration. be the key to a long life.” impact it will have on quality of life for centre of the world’s textile industry, “Prof. Gemmell’s environmental DNA everyone who lives, works or visits here. and Paisley people have shaped the SNP Perth and Kinross councillor Eric survey of Loch Ness has furnished us, at This is a major project, which will require world for centuries with their creativity. Drysdale said as Scotland’s oldest man, a stroke, with species lists, to compare significant investment, but the project The reopened museum will celebrate Alfred Smith, died at the age of 111. Mr with those we have compiled over the last team have worked hard to ensure that all of that and more, by using Paisley’s Smith was born in Invergowrie in 1908 and forty years with net and microscope. This funding for the first five years is broadly outstanding collections to retell the was a farmer and lorry driver in Perthshire. SCOTWORD

1 2 3 4 5 6 Here is a fun crossword for you to try with a few of the answers to be found in Scotland! If you are in doubt, you may 7 8 need a wee peek at a Scots dictionary or a map. Or, if you are 9 really stuck, the answers can be found on page 25! 10 11 CLUES ACROSS CLUES DOWN 12 13 14 7) Time to roam in Scotland! (7). 1) For ancient dates! (7). 8) Burns birthplace (7). 2) Scottish first course! (4). 10) Fishing port south-west of Girvan (10). 3) Colourful pigment (6). 15 16 11) Melodies (4). 4) Old high-ranking noble (8). 17 18 12) Moveable Scots households! (8). 5) Waterway at Inverness (5, 5). 19 20 21 14) A soft, porous cake (6). 6) Top fastener (7). 15) This Scot is his bond! (4, 7). 9) Site of 1745 victory (11). 19) Condensed antacid (6). 13) Town 3 miles north of Dumbarton (10). 22 23 24 20) They take illegally (8). 16) 8 or 9 irons! (8). 22) The female deer (4). 17) The National Guard (7). 25 26 23) This Scot created a bond! (3, 7). 18) Parents’ parent! (7). 25) Fussy to a Scot (7). 21) At sea! (6). 26) Catch the ferry here to Skye (7). 24) Ben More is on this island (4).

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Scotland’s genetic landscape echoes Dark Ages Scotland to lose more public phone boxes The DNA of Scottish people still contains signs of the country’s ancient kingdoms, with many BT is planning to apparently living in the same areas as their ancestors did more than a millennium ago. remove hundreds of phone boxes in the north-east, and Gododdin in the Scotland – whose grandparents or across Scotland. Genetic map of the United south-east. The Dark Ages are widely great grandparents were born within Approximately 20% Kingdom and Ireland. considered to be from the end of the 50 miles of each other. of call boxes are Roman Empire in 476 AD to around 1000 being ear marked for removal across AD. In addition to showcasing Scotland’s Northern isles the country, with the genetic continuity, experts believe this Researchers from the University of Scottish Borders and type of population analysis could aid Edinburgh and RCSI (Royal College of Highlands with the the discovery of rare DNA differences Surgeons in Ireland) then compared largest loss of service. All up about 650 call that might play major roles in human this with the DNA of people who lived boxes will be removed in Scotland, which disease. Professor Jim Wilson of The thousands of years ago. Experts found equates to about 20% of the national total. University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute that Orkney and Shetland had the highest This would leave Scotland with around and MRC Human Genetics Unit said: levels of Norwegian ancestry outside 2,600 public phone boxes remaining, “It is remarkable how long the shadows of Scandinavia and that many islands within a reduction of over 50% from 15 years Scotland’s Dark Age kingdoms are, given the archipelagos had their own unique ago. “Most people now have a mobile the massive increase in movement from genetic identity. The islands also contained phone and calls made from our public the industrial revolution to the modern subtle, but notable genetic differences telephones have fallen by around 90% in era. We believe this is largely due to the between people living only a few miles the past decade,” said a BT spokesperson. majority of people marrying locally and apart, with no obvious physical barriers. However, BT is offering communities preserving their genetic identity.” Dr Edmund Gilbert of the Royal across Scotland the chance to adopt their College of Surgeons in Ireland said: local phone box for just £1 and help to Iceland links “This work is important not only from the turn them into something inspirational for The new data from Scotland means historical perspective, but also for helping their local area. More than 370 payphones xperts have constructed Scotland’s this is the first time the genetic map of understand the role of genetic variation in have already been adopted in Scotland as first comprehensive genetic map, the United Kingdom and the Republic human disease. Understanding the fine- part of BT’s Adopt a Kiosk scheme. BT will which reveals that the country of Ireland can be seen in its entirety, scale genetic structure of a population continue to provide electricity - if already is divided into six main clusters researchers say. The study also helps researchers better separate disease- in place - to power the light for adopted Eof genetically similar individuals: the discovered that some of the founders causing genetic variation from that which kiosks, free of charge to communities. Borders, the south-west, the north-east, of Iceland may have originated from occurs naturally in the British and Irish Where electricity is available, adopted the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. north-west Scotland and Ireland and populations, but has little or no impact on boxes can be used as housings for that the Isle of Man is genetically disease risk.” defibrillators - an increasingly popular and potentially life-saving conversion. Genetic continuity predominantly Scottish. The study The study has been published in the Other exciting new ventures include These groupings are in similar looked at the genetic makeup of more journal Proceedings of the National conversions to mini-libraries, miniature art locations to Dark Age kingdoms such as than 2500 people from Britain and Academy of Sciences of the United States museums, cake shops and information centres. Strathclyde in the south-west, Pictland Ireland – including almost 1000 from of America.

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By: Lady Fiona Lady MacGregor’s Scotland MacGregor Lady MacGregor of MacGregor – otherwise known as British broadcaster Fiona Armstrong. Fiona is currently news reading for the BBC, but she also leaves the studio to report on all matters Scottish. Fiona lives in Scotland with her husband, Chief of Clan MacGregor, Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, and is also an active member of Clan Armstrong, so their lives are interwoven with all things tartan. The couple have Fiona and Derek with Lady Fiona moved from the borderlands to the lowlands, home is now a white tower house between Perth and Dundee, at their Reiver wedding. although filming and writing takes Fiona all over Scotland.

reetings from Scotland where it is Julia will now make her home with Derek you want to put drones up here, you will need We, too, have a famous waistcoat, and raining. But do not worry, because here in the Borderlands. Which is a loss for to get permission first, as Rick correctly did. this one belonged to the chief’s great- I can bring some sunshine to this Canada, but lovely for us. For she will no I have not been to Dunvegan, but it is great-great grandfather. It was Sir Evan month’s story by telling you about doubt throw herself into things: turning out certainly on the ‘to-do’ list. Built on a rock in MacGregor of MacGregor who wore it at Ga colourful wedding. Let’s put it this way: at re-enactment events and joining in the a dramatic loch side setting, this is Scotland’s the King’s visit to Edinburgh in 1822. the bride did not wear white… spirit of things. Best of all, as an Elliott, she oldest continuously inhabited castle. Indeed, this We recently took the two-hundred- Derek Stewart is a care worker in the will most certainly be at home. imposing pile has been the ancestral home of year-old embroidered garment back up to Scottish Borders town of Hawick. But at On the subject of weddings, we have the Chiefs of Clan MacLeod for eight centuries. Edinburgh – carrying it ever so carefully! weekends he picks up his sword to become just had had a visit from two American It forms part of a tartan suit and as the chief a martial man. Derek is a re-enactor who friends. Rick Walker is the son of the was giving a lecture about the development dresses in medieval costume; playing the MacGregor chief’s representative in the I can bring some sunshine to of this iconic cloth, it made a useful prop. part of a ‘reiver’, those riding men who USA. Randy Walker is Chieftain of the ACA, this month’s story by telling Our audience was a group of ladies five hundred years ago raided across the the American Clan Gregor Society, and we from North America. They were in the Scottish border with England. met him and his family when we visited you about a colourful wedding. Scottish capital on a needlework course Texas two years ago. Let’s put it this way: the bride – and were fascinated to hear how tartan Reiving Anyhow, Rick and his girlfriend, Jennifer has become one of Scotland’s main Julia Elliott is a lassie from Canada, but were on a grand tour of Scotland. Visiting did not wear white… symbols. For although this fabric dates as hers is a border ‘reiving’ name she the Highlands and Edinburgh - and coming back centuries, it is only in the last two has an interest in this part of the world. down to our house in Dumfries and Galloway. hundred years that it has become one of The couple first met online and they hit it The clan motto is ‘Hold Fast’ and they the country’s most obvious emblems. off at once. Julia might have been living on Dunvegan Castle have certainly managed to hold onto some Scots love their tartan – and their the other side of the world, but she came After they left us the next stop was clan treasures, among them the ‘Fairy embroidery. Mary Queen of Scots did it over to find out about her family roots. Dunvegan Castle on Skye which proved Flag’. Legend has it that this banner has – as did other notable ladies. Then there The rest is history. Derek popped the question. to be apt. This island is home to the miraculous powers. It was said that when is the Great Tapestry of Scotland, a series She accepted - and now all they had to do MacLeod’s – which is Jennifer’s clan. it was taken into battle the clan could beat of 160 hand-stitched panels which next was to find a suitable wedding venue. And it was there that Rick sprung his surprise whatever enemy came their way. year it is moving to a permanent home in They found it at an ancient reiving tower. - putting up a drone before he popped the Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Gilnockie stands on the banks of a river near question. Down he went on one knee… Ancient fabric Gala is only about an hour from us, so Canonbie. The place has been newly restored. It is good to know that, unlike our ancestors, Dunvegan also boasts a number of there is no excuse for not making the effort It is stunning and, as such, made great TV. we are not always fighting each other! It was a items related to Bonnie Prince Charlie – to see it. This trip is also on my ‘to-do’ list. Especially as everyone was in period costume. wonderful way to propose but do remember: if including one of his waistcoats. I am going to be busy. Being Scottish is Bags of Fun! Most bag styles also include a Ditch plastic-go Scottish! handy inside key/coin zip pouch.

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Page 8 • The Scottish Banner • October 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Cowal Highland Gathering 2019 The best Scottish Junior Dancer was Ellie Dalrymple of Tranent, and the trophy for the best Overseas Junior Dancer went to Beret Dernbach. The Adult World champion was Marielle Lesperance from Nova Scotia, followed by Rebecca Thow from Alberta, with Ellis Hayes from Newton Stewart in third. Marielle Lesperance is taking home the Mary McHarg Quaich for best Overseas Adult Dancer. The cup for best Scottish Adult Dancer went to Ellis Hayes of Newton Stewart. Three major dancing competitions take place at the Gathering. The Scottish Championships, the Argyllshire Championship and the World Championships.

Success of the Gathering Cowal Highland Gathering chair Ronnie Cairns said the success of the weekend World Junior Champion, and the enthusiasm of everyone involved Beret Dernbach of California. would ensure that this famous event will 2019 Champions from left: Rosey Watt, Marielle Lesperance and Beret Dernbach. continue to go from strength to strength. “Judging from the feedback we’ve been Our competitors have excelled themselves, receiving over the last three days, the as they do every year. Our spectators have vast majority of people who have taken marvelled at the skills on show, as they part this year – whether competing or do every year. And the entertainments spectating – are going home having had on offer in addition to the traditional a brilliant time. It’s very rewarding for Highland Games elements have once again everyone involved in its organisation to proved a major hit and we very much look see and hear how much people enjoy it. forward to welcoming everyone back to There are so many people working away Dunoon for the 2020 Gathering.” behind the scenes to ensure that everything The Cowal Highland Gathering takes is as good as it can possibly be by the time place in Dunoon, Scotland each August. the last weekend in August arrives. For details see: www.cowalgathering.com

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The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 9 THE SCOTTISH BANNER First eDNA study of Loch Ness points to something fishy

niversity of Otago geneticist, the more common, and outrageous, is “Divers have claimed that they’ve seen given place. It’s going to be extremely Professor Neil Gemmell there might be a Jurassic-age reptile or eels that are as thick as their legs in the useful in the future as the technology has announced the results population of Jurassic-age reptiles such as loch, whether they’re exaggerating or not becomes quicker and more accessible, of investigations into the a plesiosaur present in Loch Ness. - I don’t know - but there is a possibility more data is created.” Uenvironmental DNA present in the British “We can’t find any evidence of a that there are very large eels present in the Professor Gemmell says one of the more Isles largest and second deepest body of creature that’s remotely related to that in loch. Whether they are as big as around intriguing findings was the strong input of fresh water, Loch Ness. The results come our environmental-DNA sequence data. four metres as some of these sightings DNA from land-based species in the Loch. after 250 samples of water were taken So, sorry, I don’t think the plesiosaur idea suggest – well, as a geneticist I think about “We found substantial levels of DNA from around, through the centre, and into holds up based on the data that we have mutations and natural variation a lot, and humans and a variety of species directly the very depths of Loch Ness. DNA from obtained,” Professor Gemmell says. while an eel that big would be well outside associated with us such as dogs, sheep each sample was captured, extracted and the normal range, it seems not impossible and cattle. However, we also detected sequenced then compared against global A very large eel that something could grow to such wild species local to the area such as deer, DNA databases to reveal a comprehensive The research team tested other unusual size.” badgers, foxes, rabbits, voles and multiple picture of life present in the Loch – predominant theories of various giant bird species. These findings indicate eDNA examining the bacteria, the fish, and fish; whether it be a giant catfish or a giant The benefit of eDNA surveys of major waterways may be useful everything else in between. sturgeon, an eel, or even a shark such as a Professor Gemmell is philosophical about for rapidly surveying biological diversity at Greenland shark. the study findings, and believes no matter a regional level.” The monster factor “So, there’s no shark DNA in Loch Ness what science says, there will always be “Most species are so small you can barely based on our sampling. There is also no belief in the Loch Ness monster. see them but there are a few that are catfish DNA in Loch Ness based on our “What I’m most satisfied with is that larger and of course the question we’re all sampling. We can’t find any evidence we came here to study environmental asking is - is there anything big enough to of sturgeon either,” Professor Gemmell DNA, and our analysis has captured explain the sorts of observations people says. The remaining theory that Professor everything we thought is in the loch. have made over the years that have led Gemmell cannot refute based on the We now have an excellent database to this myth or this legend of a monster environmental DNA data obtained is that which if compared to any future testing or creature in Loch Ness?” Professor what people are seeing is a very large eel. could enable us to identify trends and Gemmell says. “There is a very significant amount of eel changes in the Loch environment. The “monster-factor” has provided DNA. Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness, That is essentially the benefit of eDNA Dr. Neil Gemmell in new Loch Ness Professor Gemmell with an opportunity with eel DNA found at pretty much every – it is an extremely powerful and robust special on the Travel Channel. to showcase the science of eDNA to the location sampled – there are a lot of them. tool to document the living things (both world, and the project has subsequently So - are they giant eels? Well, our data doesn’t large and microscopic) present in a drawn considerable interest. A reveal their size, but the sheer quantity of documentary team from Travel Channel the material says that we can’t discount the has been on the journey with Professor possibility that there may be giant eels in Gemmell and his team, with a two-hour Loch Ness. 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He notes science to add another chapter to Loch other evidence such as the video shot by Ness’ mystique,” Professor Gemmell adds. Mr Gordon Holmes in 2007 which shows a With over a thousand reported sightings four-metre torpedo-like shape seemingly dating back to the 6th century, Professor swimming on the Loch’s surface support Gemmell says of all the ideas for what the hypothesis of a giant eel, large fish, or people have seen in the water, one of perhaps a marine mammal. Spring into summer with our exclusive Black Watch & Royal Stewart Kilt Towels

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Australian Jim Stoddart was born in a Glasgow Tenement and raised in a Glasgow Housing Scheme 1943-1965. Jim will be KINGS CASTLES AND taking readers on a trip down memory lane, of a time and place that will never be the same again, and hopes even if only a “DURTY” WEE RASCALS few people in the Scot’s Diaspora have a dormant folk memory awakened, then he shall be more than delighted.

head of television so to speak. He then just seeing by wireless – Watch him! – he may about dragged in a nearby office worker have a razor!” I think there just might have called Edward Tranton to give him the been a wee touch of racism there. Had the honour of being the first person in history receptionist also said in her message to to be televised. the upstairs editor’s office that he was a Scotsman as well as a lunatic.

The phenomenon of television Transmissions were so few Back at my house in the 1950’s at night, after and far between that everyone the television broadcasts had finished, usually about 9.00 p.m., my mother covered the TV watched just about anything set in the same way that you would cover a on offer in those days, even bird cage to help a budgerigar settle down to sleep. My mother obviously did appreciate some awfully boring so–called Baird’s great invention but I’m not sure, with the benefit of hindsight, whether my drama programmes on a tiny mother thought ‘the box’ would arise out of its 12-inch TV screen. slumber with a life of its own to awaken us all in the middle of the night with unscheduled noisy programmes or whether it was simply to keep the dust off its precious screen. With such exciting news to be shared Television sets were expensive to buy or Television in the 1950’s But after all that effort we were finally with the world you would have thought rent but quickly became a must buy item. awarded by the sight of Muffin the Mule, that his contemporaries would have My mother’s chosen cover laid over the TV I like coffee, I like tea, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men with their been eager to shout the news from the was an old tapestry-like textile with scenes I like radio, and TV. friend Weed and of course Felix the Cat rooftops or at least give him a mention in of armed, musket-toting Arab tribesmen in cartoons in all-consuming black and white. the newspapers. Instead, it’s said that this the Arabian Desert with a zeppelin in the sky This was a topical skipping rhyme in 1953. Transmissions were so few and far brilliant man went out to try and get an above. The truth was that the cover was more t a time when Calvinist Scotland between that everyone watched just about interview with the news editor of The Daily exciting to look at than most of the programs had no Sunday sport, when anything on offer in those days, even some Express in London, in order to promote offered on the television set. I’ve still got the cinemas, dance halls and public awfully boring so–called drama programmes what was to become one of the defining cover which was already near on an antique houses remained firmly closed on on a tiny 12-inch TV screen. We had to wait in inventions of the 20th century, only to in the 1950’s and it has of course outlived Athe Sabbath day, a family visit to join my later years for Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars have him and his invention completely the 12-inch television set during the many relatives at the homes of my grandparents to bring a little bit of excitement to the Box ignored. Apparently, the news editor said decades since. Nevertheless, the phenomenon on Mosspark Drive or Trinity Avenue was in the corner. Breakdowns in transmissions to one of his staff, “For God’s sake go down of television itself was here to stay and was always an entertaining social occasion. were so common that we would stare at the to reception and get rid a lunatic, who’s to dramatically change how all of us lived, What my aunts and uncles had in common, intermission card for a large amount of our down there. He says he’s got a machine for worked and socialized in the years to come. which seemed to rise above any of their time. We were nonetheless enthralled and trials and tribulations, was their sense of captivated by the wonder of this new and humour. They were all natural storytellers seemingly wonderful technology. and conversationalists. They had a ‘joie de vis’ that meant that when they met John Logie Baird McPhee’s together the air seemed charged with their My Maternal grandmother, Jane Russel In Wellington since 1946 good humour. I enjoyed every minute of Robertson, loved to watch cowboy series their company, playing their card games such as the Lone Ranger and the Cisco Kid and listening to their impromptu singing. on television, programmes that have not Order online at www.mcphees.co.nz Things were to change when television travelled well and that would undoubtedly [email protected] came to our homes in the early 1950’s, struggle to maintain our interest today. especially when sales were given a massive But in the context of a woman born in 1877 boost by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth and who would have spent her childhood in 1953. The big family reunions for a and youth firmly in the 19th century we can Saturday or Sunday dinner diminished understand her enthusiasm for what to her with the deaths of my grandparents and the must have seemed close to having your own strengthening of the power of ‘the box’. cinema, in your own home. Her husband, Allan Livingston Baxter, my grandfather, Wonderful technology also born in 1877 but who died in in 1947 My Uncle George and Aunt Betty lived sadly never had that opportunity to enjoy Specialising in: with my younger cousins, Drew and Tom television like his wife and descendants. in my grandfather’s house on Trinity It existed in 1947 but was not available to Scottish Country Dancing Shoes & Accessories Avenue. They owned some canaries that British audiences until much later than that. wouldn’t sing (probably females) and the Although first invented by fellow first television set in our extended family. Scotsman, John Logie Baird, in and around I regularly tramped all the way through 1923 the new technology did not become Pollok, over the railway bridge at Mosspark available to home audiences until after West Railway Station, to go and watch the Second World War. Baird built his first little paper-chain figures dance around working television from the following a transmission mast that pulsated to items, a bit like we, Boy Scouts, used to represent the programs being magically build things in our scout hall on a Friday beamed out to us. And if that didn’t keep night. Baird’s makeshift list included not us interested we had the manipulation much more than an old hatbox, a used tea of the horizontal and vertical hold, the chest, some darning needles, some lenses contrast and the brightness buttons to from a few bicycle lamps, some sealing master in order to keep the picture steady wax, glue and a pair of scissors. 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The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 11 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Scottish ancestry celebrated at the Hororata Highland Games The Society for Creative Anachronism take people back in time to discover medieval skills and Knight combat demonstrations. This year international Celtic singer/song writer Steve McDonald returns to perform at the Hororata Highland Games, one of his favourites in the world.”

A highlight of the year for many The Kilted Mile. A new competition for 2019 is the Best Dressed Lads and Lassies competition. “We are looking forward with excitement to see a range of creative tartan outfits paraded on the main stage following the Welcome Ceremony to be judged by fashion industry icons.” The Welcoming Ceremony will demonstrate the best of Scottish and Kiwi culture: as the Chieftain of the Day and Clans are Piped into the arena then welcomed on stage by the local schools combined Kapa Haka group. The Closing ceremony at the end of the day will see a Highland Dancing Massed Fling, Pipe Power of the Heavy Events. Band marching demonstration right before the ground-shaking Massed Bands march. Gates open 9 am 9th November, The Hororata Highland Games is a Clans on the march. Hororata Domain, the event concludes community festival staged by the Hororata

All images courtesy of David Baird. All with a heart-pounding Massed Bands Community Trust. All funds raised benefit the march at 4.30pm. Competitions entries cottish ancestry looms large in competing in light versions of the Heavy community. “Our community loves welcoming are open until 28th October. Early bird the background of many New events while the Kilted Mile provides an visitors to the Games and it is a highlight of tickets are on sale, for details visit Zealanders. The Hororata Highland opportunity for the fleet footed to gain a the year for many,” concluded Cindy. www.hororatahighlandgames.org.nz Games celebrates both Scottish coveted Hororata Highland Games trophy. Sand Kiwi culture to create a captivating festival. “The Games is ‘sònraichte’, meaning special in Gaelic. The 2019 The Hororata Highland Games Hororata Highland Games will be held celebrates both Scottish Saturday 9th November, this will be the Billy Connolly ninth annual event. There is no other and Kiwi culture to create a festival quite like it in New Zealand. “The Games has been developed by a captivating festival. group of passionate volunteers who have Reader Giveaway put their heart and soul into making them the amazing event they are today,” said “The competitions are no doubt ailed as the UK’s most influential Event Manager Cindy Driscoll. the heart of the Games but the festival comedian of all time, legendary surrounding them is what really elevates Scot Billy Connolly is coming Traditional Scottish competitions the Hororata Highland Games to the to cinemas with this brilliant The Hororata Highland Games sees all next level. In amongst the stalls, food Hshow from his final stand-up tour. the traditional Scottish competitions take vendors and fairground you expect to Featuring blistering observations of place over one massive day at the Hororata find at a festival there are some activities everyday absurdities and a deeply personal Domain. The festival hosts New Zealand’s and entertainment which are inimitable interview, The Sex Life of Bandages is a biggest one day Highland Dancing to the Games. This includes the ‘Have A big screen tribute to an iconic funny man competition, top level Pipe Bands, Solo Go’ activities: not just tossing a caber but who is still as hilarious as ever! Screening pipers and Drummers, Tug O’ War teams spinning wool, archery, small bore rifle in select cinemas across Australia & New and of course the strong men and women shooting and the mighty Tugging Rig. Zealand on 18th, 19th & 20th October only! competing in the Heavy events. The Junior In St Andrew’s Square over 20 Clans gather, For details see www.cinemalive.com to Warriors see primary school aged children connecting visitors to their Scottish heritage. find a cinema near you. The Scottish Banner is pleased to be offering 8 lucky readers a double pass to see The Sex Life of Bandages. To enter simply tell us what Scottish city Billy hails from by email: [email protected], via our website at www.scottishbanner. com/contact-us or post (sorry no telephone entries) our Sydney office, our full contacts can be found on page 2. Please ensure you include your full name, post details with an email or phone contact. Entries must be received before October 11th. Winners will be notified directly, good luck! redeemable for cash. Subject to availability. T&C: Valid for one session only in Please note: Billy Connolly: The Sex Life regular seating, not Gold Class or similar of Bandages has been given a preliminary Pipe bands on display. luxury seating. Valid for screenings only rating in Australia of ‘M’ and winners must October 18-20, 2019. Not exchangeable or be above 15 years of age.

Page 12 • The Scottish Banner • October 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Treasures from the Hoard way of buying their support and keeping Dr Hunter, whose research into the hoard the Roman frontier secure. This silver was has been published in a new book, The intended for the melting pot – Roman Late Roman Silver Treasure from Traprain silver bullion was melted down and made Law, said: “The Traprain Treasure is the into the first ever items of Scottish silver most significant silver find from beyond jewellery, with examples of this from the the Roman frontier right across Europe. A Traprain Law settlement itself. century after its discovery, it’s exciting that East Lothian Provost, John McMillan, it can still reveal new insights. It’s a key part said: “We are absolutely delighted of this fascinating period in our history, and to have some of the pieces from this I’m sure it’ll dazzle those who see it. We are collection available for the exhibition delighted to be supporting its display in East during the centenary year of the Lothian, which is a fitting way to mark the amazing discovery. I am sure both centenary of its discovery” local residents and visitors alike will be Treasures from the Hoard exhibition runs fascinated by the story of the discovery until 27 October. Check the JGC website for and also the history of the hoard.” opening times www.johngraycentre.org

stunning new exhibition at the John Gray Centre, Haddington, has opened featuring many of the iconic pieces from the spectacular ATraprain Treasure, found on Traprain Law 100 years ago. This is the first time this internationally significant Roman silver can be seen in East Lothian since its discovery in 1919. The Traprain Treasure is the largest hoard of late Roman ‘hacksilver’ found FULL KILT OUTFITS anywhere in Europe. It consists of fragments from over 250 silver objects, that AND SCOTTISH GIFTS had been cut into set weights of bullion and sent north from the Roman world, With the Largest Range of Clan Crests Available probably as a diplomatic gift. They were All Made in Scotland found buried in a pit within a hill fort during an archaeological excavation. The Treasures from the Hoard exhibition takes over the first gallery of the museum, involving a total revamp of the gallery and features real and replica objects. A programme of talks and events are planned to mark the centenary, both in East Lothian and at the National Museum of Scotland. Clan Crest Kilt Pins Clan Crest Cufflinks Clan Crest Cap Badges The most significant silver find from beyond the Roman frontier The hoard was buried more than 1,500 years ago, around AD 450. When first found, it was thought that barbarians had stolen the ‘loot’ from retreating Romans. However, following extensive research by Dr Fraser Hunter of National Museums Scotland, into other hacksilver hoards across Europe, it was more likely Penannular Clan Encyclopaedia Scottish Figurines cut up within the Roman world at times Plaid Brooches of economic crisis, when precious metal was valued as bullion rather than as fancy vessels. It was then sent north as diplomatic gifts (or payment for military assistance) to the powerful leaders on Traprain Law, as a

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By: Brigadier David Allfrey A letter from

Edinburgh The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo All images courtesy of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. images courtesy of The Royal All

s the lights go down on our 2019 project which has been bubbling away Kingdom and Trinidad and Tobago, with on famously across the summer without Kaleidoscope season in Edinburgh, famously or nearly two years, under the support from the United States, Mexico, a single disagreement. It has been a I have the opportunity not just to hands of our staff in Edinburgh and those of Uruguay, Greece and many others besides. wonderful atmosphere throughout. reflect on the success of the season the Michael Cassel Group. With this firm foundation of human Apast but also, more importantly, to look This year, we have been proud and Bringing people together talent, we wanted to design a show that ahead to future adventures. The Royal privileged to host a wonderful international The youngest performer was just ten would not just be entertaining but also Edinburgh Military Tattoo grew out of the cast in Edinburgh - more than 1100 cultural years old and the most senior celebrated would inspire. The Kaleidoscope formation Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama in and military performers, of whom nearly his 80th birthday during the run. This in the finale provided everyone with a the 1940s and went its own way in 1950. It 800 were musicians. Kaleidoscope - Our representation, across a quite remarkable splendid focus. Designed around an is remarkable to think that we have been Glorious Symmetries was chosen as a diversity - both horizontally and vertically 8-bar musical structure - with something able to deliver an unbroken series of annual theme to allow us to celebrate the wonders - is the essence, I think, of the Tattoo’s happening at each change - it was shows for nearly 70 years - and this against and properties of visible light, the fabulous sustained success. We take huge pride in described variously at the start with just the backdrop of so many changes in our spectrum of colours identified by Sir Isaac bringing people together. a snort, as “impossible”, “a good idea but world, in the international communities, Newton and their display through the lens impractical” and “that will never work!”. So, in societies at home and abroad and… of a kaleidoscope, and that wonderful it was a joy to watch our Principal Director amongst the blizzard of more temporary optical instrument first patented by the With this firm foundation of Music, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Jones trends. With the Tattoo poised to be in Scottish inventor and scientist Sir David and the Senior Drum Major, Allan Campbell Sydney for four performances in October Brewster. Our cast was drawn principally of human talent, we wanted to gently bring the ingredients together. By (17 - 19 October at the ANZ Stadium), our from Australia, Canada, China, France, the 3rd day of rehearsal, we had the essence focus needs to shift quickly to this new Germany, New Zealand, Nigeria, the United design a show that would not established and it improved each and every just be entertaining but also time from then on. In support of all this, we brought would inspire. together our technical teams - many of whom have worked with the Tattoo for years - to build a stunning backcloth of So far more than 55 countries have taken sound, lighting, projection, fireworks, part in the Tattoo and we have a healthy special effects, costumes and props. pattern of prospective contributors waiting their turn. As Alasdair Hutton, our Storyteller, remarks each evening: “We come together as strangers and we leave as friends!”. In a world where differences so often act as the root for tension and mistrust, we feel it is important to celebrate where each nation and culture differs wonderfully from one another. We believe that when we understand each other better, we comprehend what makes other people tick, the better we get on, the easier it is to trust one another and then interact. Certainly, our international cast Brigadier David Allfrey, MBE. - with I think 12 different languages - got

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Show - can then be processed precisely This is going to be a huge endeavour: to give every member of the audience • The Sydney production will bring a ‘surround-sound’ experience. We can together more than 1500 people now listen to a single bird fluttering from from 14 different countries across section to section or waves can roll from the globe to perform. one end to the other! These effects, when • There will be 15 files of pipes and combined, offer something for all the drums and 11 military bands along senses…and sometimes you can even taste with over 100 dancers and 40 fiddlers. the gunpowder! And then…the Castle! 400 years of historic and imposing stonework • 7 Pacific nations will join together is always the silent cast member and the in an impressive celebration of tape-recorder of Edinburgh’s history and South Pacific culture. our heritage. It is spectacular. • Indigenous Australians will have a strong representation in the One of the largest international casts design, the welcoming of nations So, what next? In October, we deploy to Sydney as well as bringing the to Sydney with one of the largest creative of At All Points of the international casts we have ever Compass to life. assembled: more than 1500 at last count! • We are taking over Sydney Olympic The performers are being drawn from a Park and Parramatta filling up to wide arc around Australia, quite literally 11 hotels with performers taking At All Points of the Compass. The two- more than 28,000 room nights and hour show is designed to place Australia serving more than 43,200 meals - in the middle of its own map with the with a few more beers besides. centre of an imaginary compass rose at • The stadium preparation will the geographic centre of the continent, take 6 days to build the replica at Lambert Centre. We will then look Edinburgh Castle, install the outwards in all directions towards lighting, establish our remarkable Australia’s friends and allies while also sound system and get ready for the drawing on the extraordinary heritage of audiences. modern Australia. The team have worked tirelessly and with real artistry to bring After nearly two years of planning, together an uncommon public spectacle. the cast will come together for only These included light sticks to be carried The sound is now phenomenal. With We are all looking forward to coming six days to rehearse and deliver the by the highland dancers, a lit podium nearly 50 musicians ‘geo-tagged’ we together with the Australian Defence biggest Tattoo we have ever staged. It for the Principal Director of Music and can calculate, using sensors around the Force and strong teams from Australia is going to be quite a party. Hope you special effects for every weather condition. arena, precisely the position - in elevation and New Zealand in the mighty ANZ can join us. All the colours of the rainbow from rigs and azimuth - of the key musicians. Stadium in mid-October to deliver just The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo and installations including LED and The sound from their instruments and four performances: Thursday 17 October marches into ANZ Stadium, Sydney 17-19 incandescent lights, and this before nearly from others - there are more than 2000 7.30pm, Friday 18 October 7.30pm, October 2019. For full details see: 60 minutes of architectural projection. radio microphone changes across the Saturday 19 October 11.00am and 7.30pm www.edinburghtattoosydney.com.au The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo marches in Sydney with record-breaking line-up

• 7 Pacific Nations poised to share their Police Pipe Band, Top Secret Drum Corps, culture through performance Pipes and Drums of Christchurch City, • 40 awe-inspiring Maori Kapa Haka Royal Corps of Musicians Tonga and more. performers The Sydney 2019 season will feature • 100 Highland Tattoo Dancers all the hallmark elements of this world- • 40 of the Australian Defence Forces’ famous military and cultural event, finest and funkiest musicians including world-class pipes and drums, making up the House Band military marching, catchy traditional and • 40 singers representing Gondwana Choirs contemporary tunes and breath-taking • Australia’s Federation Guard featuring 100 special effects. celebrated serving personnel, and Australian For more information: Indigenous Song Men and dancers. www.edinburghtattoosydney.com.au Tattoo Dance Company. New Zealand Army Band. World-famous military and cultural event will be represented, boasting traditional Audiences will be thrilled by performances uniforms and colourful costumes, including by the Australian Defence Force, Auckland the UK, Switzerland, France, India, Tonga, Police Pipe Band, The Republic of Fiji Fiji, Cook Islands, New Zealand and Military Forces Band, Lochiel Marching Australia as well as for the first time ever, Drill Team, NSW Police Pipe Band, The acts from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand Army Band, The Band of the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu. Royal Air Force, Hjaltibonhoga Shetland Top Secret Drum Corps. fiddlers, the Tattoo Dance Company, WA The Pipers Trail. Iconic Scottish spectacular Set against a full-size replica of Edinburgh he Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Castle, the iconic Scottish spectacular will have now confirmed 1521 cast for feature 33 musical, cultural and military Sydney’s upcoming production, in groups, including: a new record as the largest Tattoo • 15 files of proud and traditional-tartan- Tever in its 69-year history. Unrivalled in its wearing Pipers and Drummers pageantry, this historic Tattoo will play four • 11 highly-spirited Military Bands shows at ANZ Stadium 17 - 19 October 2019. • 40 amazingly deft Precision Marchers Hjaltibonhoga Shetland fiddlers. Lochiel Marching Drill Team. Over 14 nations from around the world • 40 Fiddlers, guaranteed to break your heart

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IN SCOTLAND TODAY

credited to Lindores Abbey in Newburgh, Fife. A note in the 1494 Exchequer Rolls details that by order of King James IV, ‘eight bols malt’ be supplied to Friar John Cor to produce ‘aqua vitae’ – the water of life. Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association Karen Betts said: “Scotch has moved with the times. Scotland’s national drink is now our most successful global export, shipped to destinations which were only just being discovered by the explorers of the 15th century. Now we are proud that Scotch Whisky is the hugely successful export that it is. Over the last 525 years, the industry has not rested on its laurels and Scotch Whisky companies now produce some of the most globally recognised consumer brands. Only a couple of months ago, we marked a record number of visits to Scotch Whisky distilleries. Tourists from all over the world visit distilleries across Scotland to learn about the story of Scotch and of Scotland.” Scotch Whisky tourism saw record numbers of visitors in 2018, with over 2 million visits to Scotch Whisky distilleries from tourists for the first time. The SWA’s annual survey revealed visits were up 6.1% year on year and 56% more than in 2010.

Bid to use hydrogen from Beaver reintroduction key to solving renewables to produce gin freshwater biodiversity crisis

Reintroducing beavers to their native A new home for the After the film, visitors will see the habitat is an important step towards Stone of Destiny? Stone of Destiny. Displayed in a custom- solving the freshwater biodiversity designed secure case, the Stone will be crisis, according to experts at the animated with light and sound, recreating The Orkney Distillery. University of Stirling. New research the 13th century crowning of Alexander III. from the Faculty of Natural Sciences has The Stone is currently displayed within provided further support to previous the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Napier will play a key role in work that has shown beavers have an alongside the Honours of Scotland. an investigation into the feasibility of important impact on the variety of plant If the Stone remains in Edinburgh Castle, hydrogen as a fuel to decarbonise the and animal life. The latest study, led by plans are being developed by Historic distilling process. The HySpirits project has Dr Alan Law and Professor Nigel Willby, Environment Scotland to undertake a been awarded £148,600 by the Department found that the number of species only major redevelopment of the display of of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy found in beaver-built ponds was 50 Could the Stone of Destiny be returning both the Stone and the Honours. Under (BEIS) to conduct the study at The Orkney percent higher than other wetlands in to Perthshire? Perth & Kinross Council’s the terms of their Royal Warrant, it falls to Distillery. The project will investigate the the same region. request to house the Stone in a new the Commissioners to consider and advise development of a thermal fluid heater Dr Law, Lecturer in Biological and museum in Perth is being considered by upon all matters relating to the Stone. system to operate with hydrogen as the Environmental Sciences, said: “Beavers the Commissioners for the Regalia and The final decision on any proposal to combustion fuel within the distilling make ponds that, at first glance, are not the Scottish Government is now hosting relocate the Stone will lie with The Queen, process. This system will remove the need much different from any other pond. an engagement exercise to gauge public acting on the advice of the Commissioners. to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and However, we found that the biodiversity opinion on the location of the Stone. On Christmas Day, 1950, four nationalist liquid petroleum gas. – predominantly water plants and The stone was originally kept at the now- students removed the stone from Lord Duncan, UK Climate Change beetles – in beaver ponds was greater ruined Scone Abbey in Perthshire. Perth Westminster Abbey and smuggled it back Minister said: “Using the power of than and surprisingly different from that & Kinross Council and the Tay Cities Deal to Scotland, sparking a huge manhunt. hydrogen could help cut emissions, found in other wetlands in the same are investing £23 million in a spectacular create jobs and make industrial processes region. Our results also emphasise the new museum at the former Perth City Scottish Parliament raises a glass cleaner and greener, benefitting the whole importance of natural disturbance by Hall, opening early 2022. There, the Stone to 525 years of Scotch Whisky economy as we work towards net zero big herbivores – in this case, tree felling, of Destiny would be free to visit, in an by 2050. This innovative project from grazing and digging of canals by beavers accessible city centre public building two HySprits/EMEC will help our efforts to – in creating habitat for species which miles from its original home at Scone. roll out hydrogen at scale by the 2030s - a otherwise tend to be lost. Reintroducing At City Hall the wider significance of the crucial step towards the end of the UK’s beavers where they were once native Stone can be revealed by displaying it contribution to global warming.” should benefit wider biodiversity and alongside one of the UK’s oldest and most Hydrogen has been identified as an should be seen as an important and important public collections. alternative fuel for energy intensive bold step towards solving the freshwater Visitors would enter the centrepiece SWA Chief Executive Karen Betts industrial processes, such as distilleries. biodiversity crisis.” display, the Stone Pavilion, to be addresses MSPs at the Scottish Parliament. If the technology and business case detailed Beavers are one of the only animals introduced to the Stone through a in the feasibility study proves viable, that can profoundly engineer the short film sweeping through time to The Scotch Whisky Association has this offers a substantial decarbonisation environment that they live in – using witness how Scotland was born from the celebrated the 525th anniversary of the opportunity for the wider industry and sticks to build dams across small rivers, Perthshire landscape. The film will also first recorded dram by hosting an event The Orkney Distillery could become the behind which ponds form. Beavers tell the life story of the Stone from its at the Scottish Parliament. Ministers and world’s first hydrogen-fuelled distillery. It is do this to raise water levels to avoid mythic origins to its role in early kingship MSPs gathered at Holyrood to mark the hoped that the findings of this study can be predators, such as wolves and bears: ceremonies, and its creation as a powerful occasion and were joined by SWA Chief replicated across the sector with the added however, numerous other plants and symbol of nationhood and monarchy Executive Karen Betts. The first known benefit that the technology will be designed animals also benefit from their work. which remains today. mention of Scotch Whisky distillation is to be retrofitted into existing infrastructure.

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By: Nick Drainey Alexander Selkirk - The real Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe’s book Robinson Crusoe was first published 300 years ago and was inspired by Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who marooned on an island off Chile for more than four years. The resourceful Scotsman learned to hunt and survive as a castaway, and inspire a story which has captivated generations as Nick Drainey explains.

between Britain and Spain, and armed coast of Peru shortly afterwards with only We had a Bull-Dog, which we sent with merchant ships were authorised to attack the captain and seven men as survivors. several of our nimblest Runners, to help Spanish vessels as part of hostilities, a But even they were captured by the him in catching goats; but he distanc’d and practise which could prove very profitable Spanish and clapped into prison. tir’d both the Dog and the Men.” considering the treasure cargoes Selkirk’s hunting efforts enabled the dispatched from Spain’s American colonies. Ingenious and resourceful scurvy-ridden crews to recover their health The privateers set sail in September – Without that knowledge to sustain him, and Rogers made him the Duke’s second by November the captain of the Cinque Selkirk initially found life hard on his island. mate. Selkirk returned to the pirate’s life Ports was dead and the manner of the new He had hoped – in fact assumed – that a with gusto, raiding for gold and jewels commander, Thomas Stradling, quickly passing ship and rescue would come quickly up a river in Ecuador and hunting down ruffled the feathers of the already hungry but when that failed to materialise he treasure galleons along the coast of Mexico. and disease-stricken crew. By the following became morose and suicidal. He clung to the He finally arrived home in Scotland in autumn, they had rounded the Cape Horn shoreline where he could scan the horizon 1712, with £800 in his pocket and surprised and were sailing up the coast of Chile. for ships but an influx of noisy, mating sea his family at the kirk in Lower Largo – they But they had spilt from the St George, lions drove him further into the island. had assumed he was dead. captained by notorious privateer William Here, life took a turn for the better – he Selkirk’s statue in Lower Largo. Dampier, and were pirating on their own. discovered feral goats which provided him Minor celebrity The ship was in a bad state, so full of leaks with meat and milk, as well as wild cats, Accounts of his life were published in 1712 that pumping out the water was a 24-hour which he managed to tame for company and 1713 and he ended up as a minor n idyllic isolated island in the job and so worm-eaten that its mast and and to see off the rats which attacked celebrity, using his fame to cadge free dinners South Pacific with beautiful decks were in a fragile state. him while he slept. Like his fictional in return for telling his tale. Defoe never met beaches and soaring mountains. So it was that after a month’s stop off counterpart, he became ingenious and him – although the Englishman did spend An escape from the pressures on an uninhabited island, then known as resourceful, making a knife out of barrel several years in Scotland, including as a spy Aof the everyday life with time for Mas a Tierra, part of the Juan Fernandez hoops and new clothes out of goat skins. for the English during the Union negotiations contemplation and a wholly organic diet. archipelago, more than 400 miles off the He sang hymns and read from the Bible, – but he did meet Woodes Rogers. It sounds like an advert for a 21st century coast of Chile, Selkirk lost his temper again and found a kind of spiritual peace on the Neither the novel’s author nor its luxury retreat – instead it was the reality for – although this time possibly with good island which had been missing before. inspiration benefitted much from the four years and four months for the real-life cause. He told Stradling the ship was not in As Woodes Rogers, the captain of the book’s fame - it never made Defoe his inspiration for the world’s most famous a state to withstand a storm or a privateers’ ship – The Duke - which would finally fortune as he had given away the copyright. castaway, Robinson Crusoe. sea battle and that he would rather stay on take him from the island and who And Selkirk was 43 when it was published It is the 300th anniversary of the the island than remain on board. Stradling included the episode with Selkirk in an and he never had time to appreciate the publication of Daniel Defoe’s world- happily abandoned him with a musket, account of his travels, said: “One may new level of fame it would bring him – he famous novel, The Life and Surprising a hatchet, a knife, a cooking pot, a Bible, see that solitude and retirement from the died a few years later, in 1723, of fever, on Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The book, bedding and clothes. Realising his bluff world is not such an insufferable state board a ship off the west coast of Africa. often credited as being the first true had been called – and that no other men of life as most men imagine . . . he said The island which had been Selkirk’s English language novel, was an instant were going to follow his lead – Selkirk he was a better Christian while in this home for four years was renamed hit, with four editions printed during 1719 chased after the ship through the surf and Solitude than ever he was before.” Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966 by alone. It went on to be translated and begged to be allowed back on board. The Rogers was also impressed by the Chilean government. It now has a reprinted so many times the hero’s name pirates merely laughed and left. Selkirk Selkirk’s physical condition: “He ran population of just under 900 people and passed into general usage. had been right about the state of the ship, with wonderful Swiftness thro the mainly relies on the spiny lobster trade – But Defoe’s fictional tale has hardly though – the Cinque Ports sank off the Woods and up the Rocks and Hills. and Robinson Crusoe tourists. less drama than the life story of Alexander Selkirk, the Scot who has become known as the real Robinson Crusoe. Ironically for a man who would have oceans to meditate on nature and God, it was a quick temper that landed Selkirk both at sea and on his island home. Born in the Fife village of Lower Largo in 1676, Selkirk was the seventh son of Euphan and John, a tanner and shoemaker. His first brush with the law came in August 1695 when he was summoned before the Kirk Session for his “indecent conduct in church” – he didn’t appear, “being gone away to ye sea”. Lower Largo harbour, from where Kirk in Upper Largo, where He was back by 1701 when he was again Selkirk fled to sea. Selkirk was rebuked. summoned by the Kirk, this time for an assault on his brothers – apparently for taking a joke where he was tricked into drinking sea water rather badly. He “was rebuked in face of the congregation”.

Pirates Perhaps it was this that made small town life undesirable for Selkirk – certainly he left again and in September 1703 was boarding a ship, Cinque Ports, in Ireland, ready to sail to South America as navigator. This was no prestigious Royal Navy position, however – the crews of the Cinque Ports and its sister ship the St. George, were pirates, albeit legalised ones. This was the Lower Largo, where Selkirk was born. time of the War of the Spanish Succession

The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 19 Welcome to our “Clansified”listing of ScottishTHE Clans, SCOTTISH Societies and Clubs. BANNER If you would like to add your Clan please contact our office for full details. Our address and phone Calling the Clans numbers are located on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan be sure to tell them you saw them in the Scottish Banner and please support these great community organisations.

CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY Clan Davidson Clan Baird Society Worldwide Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: Clan Fraser Society Membership is open to those descended Duncan, Robertson, Reid, etc. Society in from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands of Australia Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied Australia Inc. Canada: Ontario * Western Canada spellings of the name of Scottish origin. Australia: New South Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia Invites all Frasers CHEIF: Grant Davidson of Davidston cordially invites to New Zealand: New Zealand and Fraser septs In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity membership all who bear one of the Clan Names, and all who can Europe: Spain to join our clan society. to associate with fellow clansman members may trace their descent from an ancestor bearing one of these Names: Africa: South Africa query the Society geneologist. For information write: Davidson; Davison; Dawson; Davis; Davie; Davey; Davy; Day; USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic * New All members receive a copy of our quarterly Dye;Dyson; Dawson; Dea; Dean; Deane; Deas; Deason; Dees; Mexico * Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * newsletter “Strawberry Leaves” Dr. Debra J. Baird, President Rocky Mountains * South * Southern California * Texas * Upper Mid-West 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 Dee; Dey; Daw; Dow; Dhai; Kay; Keay; Key; Keys; MacDade; Membership enquiries to Don Chitts Email: [email protected] MacDaid; MacDavid; MacDavett; MacDagnie; MacDagny; Visit our website to learn more about Clan Donnachaidh, our Ph: (03) 9754 5120 [email protected] MacDhai; McKeddie. In addition we welcome into membership all History & Traditions, the Clan Museum in Scotland, the DNA Regional Directors for Australia who have a family association with the Clan Davidson. Project, the new Struan Kirk Appeal, & locate a Branch near you. Website: http://clanfraseraustralia.org David and Patricia Benfell Applications may be made online: www.clandavidson.org.au http://www.donnachaidh.com/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ Email: [email protected] Facebook: The Clan Donnachaidh Society website: www.clanbairdsociety.com or contact the Hon. Secretary Mr Dennis Hill, J.P, P.O. Box 519 Email: [email protected] Pages/Clan-Fraser-Society-of-Australia/ Baulkham Hills NSW 1755 [email protected] 0431 527 662 482236358590288

Clan Bell Clan Donald Clan Dunbar of Clan Galbraith Australia The House of North America “under the patronage of the High Association Cordially invites membership inquiries from persons Council of the Chiefs of Clan Donald” Gospatric the Earl Named Bell (all spellings), their descendants and High Commissioner Mr Lachlan Macdonald Eligible blood or marriage, all descendants of Includes name variations such as friends. Computerized Genealogical data base available State Commissioners The Gospatric: Dunbar, Clugston, Corbett, Dundas, Galbreath, Catbreath, Gilbraith etc. to help members in their research. Quarterly Edgar, Grey, Heryng, Home, Knox, Nisbett, Peddie, newsletter published. Tents hosted at major Scottish NSW Mr Lachlan Macdonald games from coast to coast. Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Strickland, Washington, Wedderburn and all DNA testing project, members only SA Ms Therese McCutcheon spelling variations of each name. Also all other Your Bell ancestry is important! Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald families who were associated with The Gospatric. databases, Biennial gatherings, Visit our web site: www.clanbell.org WA Ms Pamela McDonald blog, Quarterly journal. Contact our Membership Chairperson: Pauline Bell Chieftain David C. Dunbar 1513 Anterra Drive, Wake Forest, NC 27587 [email protected] 16419 Carlton Vale Ct. Email: [email protected] www.clangalbraith.org CLAN DONALD QUEENSLANDThere is no joy without Clan Donald Tomball, TX 77377-8488

Commissioner: Neil Macdonald Ph: 0412 090990 Email: [email protected] FamilyWeb: of www.clandonaldqld.orgBruce Clan Donald Edmonstone ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of International,MacDonald Macdonald McDonald Inc. McDonell, Donald, OR of one of the Septs of Clan Family of Bruce International,Donald, Inc., ORthe with only a connection such organization through family lineage. Queensland Clan Society recognized by the heredity chief of the Name of Bruce, The Rt. Hon. Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, is a non-profitThere is no joy without Clan Donald Commissioner: Neil Macdonald Invites membership to anyone of the surname organization established to create kinship amongst its family Ph: 0412 090990 or variations:- Edmiston/e, Edmondston, members and promote interest in the Family of Bruce and Email: [email protected] Edmanson, Edmeston, Edmonson, its history. Membership is open to persons who qualify Edmundson, etc. Chieftain Sir Archibald Web: www.clandonaldqld.org by surname, by decent, or by recognized septs: Carlisle, Edmonstone Bt of Duntreath Carruthers, Crosby, Randolph and Stenhouse. ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of MacDonald Contact: Mal Edmiston www.clangregor.com Membership inquiries should be directed to: Macdonald McDonald McDonell, Donald, 3 Laguna Ave For membership contact Keith MacGregor Donald E. Bruce Polly A. (Bruce) Tilford, Secretary OR of one of the Septs of Clan Donald, P.O Box 56, Redding Ridge, CT 06876 President 5561 Earl Young Road Kirwan, Qld, 4817 [email protected]. 1051 Eagle Ridge Trail Bloomington, IN 47408 OR with a connection through family lineage. 61 (0)7 4755 4370 Peter Lawrie, Secretary Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 www.familyofbruce.org There is no joy without Clan Donald [email protected] Clan6 The Esplanade,Gregor Broughty Society Ferry, Dundee Australasia DD5 2EL Scotland All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc. invited to join one of the oldest Clan Societies Membership is open only to persons of in Scotland Est 1822. If you live in Australia or the blood of Macdonald, however spelled New Zealand, please contact our clan or of the blood of a recognized associate representativeClan in GregorAustralia; family or is related by marriage or legal Clanadoption to either ofDonald these write for more Frank McGregor info and a complete Sept list. Diane Carey-Schmitz ClanSociety Gregor Society U.S.A.1685 Casitas AvenueInc. PO Box 14 Pasadena, CA 91103, NORTH HOBART TAS 7002 Membership is open [email protected] to persons oft the blood Elliot Clan Society, U.S.A. Email:Australasia [email protected] All MacGregors andWeb. Septs www.clangregor.com of our Clan are invited to join Clan Cameron NSW Inc. of Macdonald, however spelled or of the blood Judith M. Elliott-Clan President one of the oldest Clan Societies in Scotland Est 1822. If President: Alistair Cameron of a recognized associate family or is related welcomes membership of all who are you live in Australia“Royal or New is Zealand,my Race please” contact our clan representative in Australia; [email protected] by marriage or legal adoption to either of these connected with this great border family. write for more info and a complete Sept list. Frank McGregor - Clan Gregor Society Secretary: Terry Cameron Direct inquires to: Membership-Treasurer PO Box 14 [email protected] William H. McDaniel Patricia Tennyson Bell North Hobart TAS 7002 Email: [email protected] High Commissioner, CDUSA 2288 Casa Grande South Web. www.clangregor.com www.clan-cameron.org.au [email protected] Pasadena, CA 91104 “Royal is my Race”

CLAN DONALD Clan Farquharson American Clan The Clan in VICTORIA Campbell Society Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish Union and Association Australia Gregor Society Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. Clan Chief: Captain A.A.C. Farquharson, Of Australia Membership inquiries CLAN DONALD VICTORIA MC of Invercauld Est 1909 welcomed from MacGregors The Society exists for the benefit of all its President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald Membership inquiries are invited from descendants of all spellings and Septs Contact: [email protected] members. All Campbells or descendants of of Farquharson and descendants of Sept family Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Campbells and members of Clan Septs are Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, McDonald and names. Please contact the association by mail to: Macdonald families living in Victoria. Membership available, with dance classes McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher Gregg Lecky Black and many others most welcome to join the Society. for Scottish Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. The Secretary: Clan Farquharson For information on State Branches contact the CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE Association Australia Contacting our registrar, Jeanne P. Lehr 11 Ballas Crt. National Secretary, Margaret Vallance Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson PO Box 585 Springwood, NSW 2777 St. Louis, MO 63131-3038 Email: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] or by Email to: [email protected] www.clan-campbell.org.au A hereditary clan society formed by the children of Norman Hume Macdonald Phone: 314-432-2842, [email protected] and Johan McKenzie Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854. website: www.acgsus.org

Clan Donnachaidh Clan Cumming Society Clan Donnachaidh Society of New South Wales Inc., Clan Hamilton of the Society of New South Australia United States WalesDunc anInc., Rob erAustraliatson Reid Society DuncanPeople who Robertson bear any of the aboveReid names or names of any of the Hamiltons and those of Hamilton descent www.clancumming.us PeopleSepts of whothe Clan bear (see advertiany ofsement the fromabove CA namesUSA) are invite d are cordially invited to join the society. [email protected] to join with us in our activities to promote Clan Donnachaidh, or“The other Children Sept of Duncan”names by of participating Clan Donnachaidh in the various activitie s Inquiries to be sent to: “Theconducted Children by Scottish of Duncan”Societies. are invited to For information & membership application, contact Sheri Lambert, Treasurer joinGordon in our Robertso activitiesn by participating in the c/o G. Allen Cummings Scottish58/157 MarconiGatherings Rd. Bonnellsheld in NSW. Bay NSW 2264 P.O. Box 5399 Vernon Hills, IL 60061 PO Box 6888 For information and membership application, Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469-6888 contact Gordon Robertson visit our website: 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 www.clanhamilton.org

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Clan Hay Clan MacLellan John B. McClellan, Jr. April Rich The OFFICIAL Clan MacFarlane Society 28 Oxbow Drive Founded 1911 - Glasgow & London Treasurer Willimantic, CT 06226 Re-established- 1973 Grandfather Mountain, NC 6409 Knollwood Drive [email protected] Loch Sloy! We welcome all descendants of McKinney, TX Clan MacNicol Clan MacFarlane from around the world! The American Branch of the First Family of Scotland welcomes Chief: John MacNeacail Michael R. MacFarlane. FSA Scot - President 75070-6032 inquires from descendants of: Hay(s); Haye(s); Hayne(s); Hey(s); Brian J.W. MacFarlane - Vice President Email: [email protected] of MacNeacail and Scorrybreac Alderston; Armll;Ayer(s); Constable; Con(n); De La Haye; Delgatie; Richard G. Kilby, FSA Scot - Treasurer Delgatie; D’ Ay(e); Dellah’aY; Errol(l); Garrad; Garrow; Gifford; John K. Manchester - Secretary Invites all MacLellans and their descendants regardless Contact Ross Nicolson Hawson; Haygood; Hayter; Hayward; Haywood; Haynie; Hayden; lnternatlonal Clan MacFarlane Society, lnc. of surname spelling to join in preserving our heritage. PO Box 398 Glenora, CA 91740 USA 10/377 North Rocks Rd., Hayfield; Hayne( s); Leask( e); Leith; Lester; MacGaradh; Peebles; [email protected] Various family names are MacLellan(d), McClellan(d), Peeples; Peoples; Turriff; Tweeddale; Yester McLellan(d) and Gilliland. Carlingford NSW 2118 www.clanhay.com MACFARLANE.ORG Visit our website: www.clanmaclellan.net www.clanmacnicol.com

The MacEanruigs, the proud sons of Henry, invite you to join the Clan MacInnes Clan Macpherson Clan Henderson Society ClanInternational MacInnes Association of Clan Clan MacLeod MacInnes (Aonghais) Societies of Australia Purposes Culture: foster Scottish culture and activities International Association of Membership is open to MacLeods Association and Games: promote Scottish festivals and games All spelling variants of MacInnes are welcome Goals Genealogy: assist in genealogical research worldwide: (Mc)Angus, (Mc)Kinnis, (Mc)Innis, and Septs (of any variant spelling), and Clan Macpherson welcomes enquiries from Macphersons of the Fellowship: foster fellowship and friendship among kith and kin Clan MacInnes (Aonghais) Society History: maintain and promote the history of the clan and Scotland (Mc)Ginnis, (Mc)Ninch, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Canse, their descendants. Recognised Septs: and members of our Associated families. For information Awards: promote charitable and educational activities via a scholarship fund (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Innes, (Mac)Masters contact your local representative, our web site Gather the Clan: as directed by our Chief, Alistair of Fordell All spelling variants of MacInnes are welcome Askey MacAndie MacCorkill www.clanmacinnes.org www.clan-macpherson.org/branches or the ‘Official Clan Some other surnames of the proud sons of Henry: Beaton MacAskill MacCrimmon worldwide:Eric Perry, Di (Mc)Angus,rector-Membe (Mc)Kinnis,r Services 14 (Mc)Innis, Jakes Lane, D'Handresson, Eanrig, Eanruig, Enderson, Endherson, Endirsone, Bethune MacAulay MacGillechallum Macpherson Association’ Facebook page Henders, Hendersone, Hendersonne, Hendersoun, Hendersoune, Dexter, ME 04930; [email protected] Hendery, Hendirsone, Hendirsoune, Hendrie, Hendrisoune, Hendry, (Mc)Ginnis, (Mc)Ninch, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Canse, Caskie MacCabe MacRaild Norie Australia. John L Macpherson Canada. John C Gillies [email protected] Henersoun, Hennersoune, Hennryson, Henresoun, Henreysoun, Harold MacCaig MacWilliam Tolmie [email protected] Henriesoun, Henrison, Henrisone, Henrisoun, Henrisoune, Henry, (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Innes, (Mac)Masters phone +61 2 4871 1123 phone +1 705 4460 280 Henryesson, Henryson, Henrysoun, Kendrick, Kenrick, MacCanrig, Lewis MacClure Norman Williamson MacCanrik, MacEanruig, MacEnrick, MacHendric, MacHendrie, New Zealand. Tim McPherson Scotland. Bill Macpherson MacHendry, MacHenrie, MacHenrik, MacHenry, MacKanrig, MacKendric, www.clanmacinnes.org NSW, ACT & Qld - Peter Macleod 02 4397 3161 [email protected] [email protected] MacKendrich, MacKendrick, MacKendrie, MacKendrig, MacKendry, phone +64 3 234 5098 phone +44 1577 830 430 MacKenrick, Makanry, Makhenry, McHenry, McKendree, McKendrick, Victoria & Tas - David Dickie 03 9337 4384 McKendry Eric Perry, Director-Member Services 14 Jakes Lane, South Australia - Nicole Walters 0415 654 836 USA. Ken Croker Clan Museum. Curator Western Australia - Ruth MacLeod 08 9364 6334 [email protected] [email protected] www.clanhendersonsociety.org Dexter, ME 04930; [email protected] phone +1 559 658 6189 phone +44 1540 673 332 Email: [email protected] (1 April to 30 October)

Clan Hope of Craighall Society For all of the name and lineage of Hope Clan Mackenzie Society The Clan MacRae INTERNATIONAL & USA President: THE Richard Rex Hope in Australia Inc. Society of Australia [email protected] Membership Chair: Membership enquiries and New Zealand

Janet Hope Higton MACLEODS

[email protected] welcomed from Mackenzies If your surname is MacRae, www.clanhope.org of all spellings and Septs RICH IN HIGHLAND AUSTRALIA or you are descended from a person having the Commissioner: TRADITIONS Stephen Hope Contact: N Dennis, 61 Alma Street, surname MacRae (any spelling) or that of a Sept of [email protected] FOR INFORMATION: www.clanhopeaustralia.org East Malvern 3145 Ph 03 9569 5716 the Clan then you are eligible to join our Society. WWW.CLANMACLEODUSA.ORG CANADA Visit our website Australian Contact: Commissioner: A.L. MacLeod Scott Hale Check out your Tartan and Sept Roslyn MacRae 0412 291 054 email: [email protected] [email protected] 3923 Rockwood Way #B www.clanhope.ca www.clanmackenzie.org.au West Valley City, UT NZ Contact: Sue Tregoweth email: [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClanHopeofCraighall 84120-6880       

  Clan Macnachtan Clan MacRae Society       Association Worldwide of North America   Sir Malcolm F. Macnaghten of   ůĂŶDĂĐ<ĞŶnjŝĞ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨĂŶĂĚĂ Macnaghten, Bart - Chief of Clan Granted Arms in 2008  Chairman - Peter McNaughton - 360-686-8451 tĞŝŶǀŝƚĞLJŽƵ–ǁŚĞƚŚĞƌLJŽƵĂƌĞĂĐůĂŶƐƉĞƌƐŽŶ We invite MacRaes of all Clan Irwin Association We welcome membership from all Scots named MacNaughton ĂŵĞŵďĞƌŽĨŽŶĞŽĨŽƵƌƐĞƉƚƐ͕ĂŚŝŐŚůĂŶĚĞƌ͕ spelling variations and their Chief and Patron or any of the Septs on our Website: Contact the Membership Ă^ĐŽƚ͕ŽƌũƵƐƚĂŶŚŝƐƚŽƌLJĞŶƚŚƵƐŝĂƐƚ–ƚŽũŽŝŶ descendants to join our Clan David Irvine, Baron of Drum, Chief of the name.  Secretary, Vice-Chairman or Regional Commissioners in: ƚŚĞ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJĂŶĚƉĂƌƚŝĐŝƉĂƚĞŝŶŵĂŶLJĂĐƚŝǀŝƚŝĞƐ MacRae Society. Learn your Contact: Barbara Edelman, Chairman Australia - Regional Commissioner - Bruce McNaught +61 7 3266 2047 [email protected] Scottish MacRae history and family lineage! 65 Colonial Drive W. Canada - Regional Commissioner - Miles MacNaughton Telford, PA 18969 250-999-9636 [email protected] www.macrae.org tĞďƐŝƚĞ͗ǁǁǁ͘ĐůĂŶŵĂĐŬĞŶnjŝĞĐĂŶĂĚĂ͘ĐĂ 215-721-3955 [email protected] New Zealand - Regional Commissioner - John Macnaughtan Need more info? Contact: IRWIN • RVIN • IRVINE • IRVING • ERWIN • ERVIN +64 9 441 4984 [email protected] President Over 270 ways the name has been spelled since 325 A.D. USA - Membership Secretary - Mary Nivison Burton Bruce McRae, 541-401-2613 [email protected] 303-670-9611 www.clanirwin.org WWW.CLANMACNAUGHTON.NET [email protected] Clan MacNeil Association OF AUSTRALIA For all enquiries about the clan and CLAN LESLIE Clan Mackenzie membership contact. Clan Maitland John McNeil SOCIETY Society in the 21 Laurel Avenue, Linden Park, Society SA 5065 of Australia United States Email [email protected] Chief: Ian Maitland, The Earl of Lauderdale! and New Zealand Clan MacNeil Association We are all related! Contact your local society Clan Chief: Hon Alexander John Leslie All Mackenzies and septs, their North America: Rosemary Maitland Thorn Enquiries invited from Leslies around the world, descendants and friends are invited to join of Australia [email protected] www.clanmaitlandna.org as well as the Septs of Clan Leslie: this charitable membership association. Australia: Carole Maitland [email protected] Abernethy, Bartholomew, Cairney, Lang, For all enquiries about the clan and 4230 Colac- Lavers Hill RoadWeeaproinah. VIC. 3237 Moore etc in all their spellings. Barbara MacKenzie, Treasurer membership contact: John McNeil New Zealand: Judette Maitland [email protected] Contact:Conta Malcolmct: J Barrie W. Leslie Leslie D.Ua. PO Box 20454 Cheyenne, WY 82003-7011 33 Disley Street, High bury, Wellington 6012. NZ 43 Rosedale Rd. 21 Laurel Avenue, 117/303 Spring Street. Phone: 307-214-4817 Email: [email protected] Kearney’sGordon Spring,, NSW, Qld,2072, 4350, Austr Australia.alia. Linden Park, SA 5065 We welcome all with Maitland, Lauderdale, Maitlen and similar Phone:Phone: +61 +61 2 7 46359418 83582262 Website: www.clanmackenzie.com name spelling. See the entire list and your family history at: lesliejb@[email protected] www.clanleslie.org • www.clanleslie.org Email [email protected] www.clanmaitland.org.uk

Clan MacDougall Society of

ClanNorth MacDougall America, Society Inc. of North America, Inc. Valerie McDougall Valerie McDougall Clan Munro VP Membership MacDougall VP Membership MacDowall MacDougall 505-470 Scenic Drive, London, ON MacDowall N5Z 3B2 N5Z 3B2 Association, U.S.A Email: [email protected] Home page: www.macdougall.org Email: [email protected]: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall Home page: www.macdougall.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall Clan MacLaren Clan MacNeil We are the only national organization of Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll and Clan MacDowall of Galloway Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll MacLaren MacLaurin Lawrence Lawson Low[e] Munro in the U.S .A. affiliated with the Coul MacCoul Macoual Association of America Conacherand ClanMacConacher MacDowall of Galloway Coyle MacCoyle Low[e]ry Law[e] Patterson MacPatrick MacRory Invites all MacNeils, regardless of Clan Munro (Association) of Scotland. CoulDole MacCoulMacDole MacoualMacDill Doual MacDoual McDougal surname spelling, some of which are listed: DougalConacher MacDougalMacConacherl MacDougald Mark A. McLaren, President CoyleDougle MacCoyleMcdougle McDougald COME JOIN US! Dugal MacDugal MacDugle McNeill MacNeil MacNeal MacNiel, McNeely, Neal, Dole MacDole MacDill Dowall MacDowal MacDowall 611 Indian Home Rd. Web site: www.Clanmunrousa.org DoualMacDowell MacDoualMacdowell McDougalMcDowell Neilson and O’neill to join us in preserving our heritage. DougalLullich MacDougalMcLullich l MacDougaldMacCullich MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh Danville, CA 94526 Write: Heather Munro Daniel MacClintockDougle MacLintockMcdougle McLintockMcDougald Contact: Rhonwyn Darby DugalMacHale MacDugalMcHoul MacDugleMactheul (925) 838-8175 4600 Lloydrownn Road MacHowell MacCowan McCown McNeill VP, Membership, PO. Box 230093, Montgomery MacKichanDowall M’GowallMacDowal MacNamellMacDowall MacDowellMacLucas MacdowellMacLugash McDowellMacLuke [email protected] AL 36123-0693. (334) 834-0612 Email [email protected] Mebane, NC 27302 LullichSpelling VariationsMcLullich May Vary or OmitMacCullich the Mac, Mc MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh MacClintock MacLintock McLintock MacHale McHoul Mactheul MacHowell MacCowan McCown MacKichan M’Gowall MacNamell MacLucas MacLugash MacLuke The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 21 Spelling Variations May Vary or Omit the Mac, Mc THE SCOTTISH BANNER

Clan Shaw Society Invites membership or inquires from all: Murray Clan Society Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, The Robert Burns Club Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. of North America Mike Shaw Secretary of Melbourne Inc. Applications for membership are invited from Murray’s 2403 West Cranford Denison, TX 75020 > Promotes interest in the works, life and and the following allied families: Balneaves, Dinsmore, Clan Shaw Society Dunsmore, Fleming, Moray, Murrie, Neaves, Piper, Pyper, Clan Wardlaw Association milieu of the Scottish Poet Robert Burns Smail, Smale, Small, Smeal, and Spalding. Invites membership or inquires from all: Founded 2004 > Celebrates Scottish Culture Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, In Canada contact: William J.M. Murray Worldwide organization for all Wardlaws or related > Conducts Annual Burn Supper, Poetry 2000 Cambridge Ave #329 MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, families. We invite you to join us. Afternoon & Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. Campbell River, BC V9H OC3 Email: [email protected] For Membership Information contact: In the U.S. contact: Robert W. Murray Secretary: Mike Shaw ‘Wardlaw ivermair!’ Secretary: Noel Wright (03) 8333 0973 1001 Cordero Crescent 2403 West Cranford www.clanwardlaw.com Email: [email protected] Wyomissing, PA 19610-2738 Denison, TX 75020 Wardlaw Tartan and Ancestry Books Clan Pollock Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue Scottish Heritage - you are cordially invited to contact: Scottish A. D. Pollock, Jr. USA, Inc. PO Box 404 Greenville, KY 42345 P.O. Box 457 e-mail: [email protected] Clan Sinclair Australia Associations Pinehurst, NC 28370 Clan Pollock Welcomes membership of anyone interested Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a Membership and inquiries from all Sinclairs, descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants. in the exchange of people and ideas between and Scotland and the United States. Poulk, Poolke, Pogue - you are cordially invited to contact: For further info contact A. D. Pollock, Jr. President: WayneSinclair 0417 146 174 Write or phone for our free brochure. PO Box 404 Secretary : Liane Sinclair 0410 045 263 www.scottishheritageusa.org Greenville, KY 42345 E: [email protected] Societies email: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.clansinclairaustralia.com (910) 295-4448 Australian Scottish Communtiy (Qld) Inc. Promoter of International Tartan Day, Brisbane, Queensland Clan Ross PO Box 3188, South BrisbaneThe 4101 Scottish Australian Ross Clan in Australia Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Scottish Heritage Council The clan is active again in Australia for information contact in Australia All persons of Scottish Descent Commander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) welcome. www.aussie-scots.org.au,Email: Australian Scottish for information contact Commander Des Ross The Stewart Society [email protected], Ph 07 3359 8195 We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan (By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Welcomes Stewarts, however spelt, by name, Communtiy (Qld) Inc. heritage and interest. Founded at a meeting held in Sydney 18 June 1981 birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual We wouldcontact Commander Des Ross at be pleased to hear from anyone Promoter of International Tartan Day, Welcomes membership from all Australians of Scottish descent. [email protected] with Ross Clan heritage and interest. Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in Brisbane, Queensland Scotland. Newsletter. Annual magazine. PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 Applications for membership can be obtained from:

Contact: Commander Des Ross at Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Scottish The Hon Secretary, SAHC Please inquire: The Secretary Susan Cooke tel: 02 6355 4158 [email protected] M 0403 830 853 All persons of Scottish Descent welcome. 53 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT, www.aussie-scots.org.au Ph 07 3359 8195 Email: [email protected] Ken Duthie JP Director of Publicity M 0409 322 374 Tel/Fax 0131 220 4512 www.stewartsociety.org Email: [email protected], www.scottishaustralianheritagecouncil.com.au

Clan Ross America  ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨsŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ Representing the great Highland Clan of Ross since 1976. ǁǁǁ͘ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐƐŽĐŝĞƚLJǀŝĐ͘ŽƌŐ  &ŽƵŶĚĞĚŝŶϭϵϬϱ ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐŚŽŝƌ͗ Clan Sutherland Society in tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJƐϭϬ͗ϯϬĂŵƚŽ Chicago Scots   Australia Incorporated Established in 1845, the Chicago Scots (aka Illinois Saint ϭϮ͗ϯϬƉŵĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐ ĂƚdŚĞ<ŝůĚĂƌĂĞŶƚƌĞ͕ƌĞĂƌŽĨ Contact: M Hodgkinson Andrew Society) is the oldest 501c3 in Illinois, The Chicago Scots organise programs and events to educate, entertain and  ϯϵ^ƚĂŶŚŽƉĞ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕DĂůǀĞƌŶ͘ Paul D Ross, President 212 MacKenzie Street nourish Scottish identity. The Chicago Scots operate Caledonia >ĂŶŐƵĂŐĞůĂƐƐ͗tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJƐϳ͗ϬϬƚŽϴ͗ϯϬƉŵ Virg Bumann, VP Membership Toowoomba 4350 (07 4632 8559) Senior Living, a unique retirement community located in the  ĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐĂƚƚŚĞĞůƚŝĐůƵď͕ϰϮϬͲϰϮϰ 1015 Archer St, San Diego, CA, 92109 [email protected] forest preserve a few miles west of downtown Chicago. [email protected] tŝůůŝĂŵ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕tĞƐƚDĞůďŽƵƌŶĞ͘ [email protected] http://goldenvale.wixsite.com/clansutherlandaus Tel: 708-447-5092  ŽŶƚĂĐƚDĂƵƌŝĐĞ&ŽǁůĞƌϬϰϬϴϮϮϯϮϳϳ www.clanross.org Facebook: Clan Sutherland Society in Australia W: www.chicagoscots.org ŵĂŝů͗ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐƐŽĐŝĞƚLJǀŝĐΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ   SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Clan Ross of Clan Sutherland   Society of North The United States  America Inc. Comunn Gàidhlig David Ross of Ross, Baron Balnagowan,  Chief of the Clan invites all Ross’, septs and their The Society cordially invites membership of all Sutherlands Astràilia The Society of St. Andrew descendants toto join in preserving our heritage. (however the name is spelled) and of the associated families: (The Scottish Gaelic Association of Australia) is a of Scotland Cheyne, Duffus, Gray, Frederith, Mowat and Oliphant. nonprofit organisation which supports the language  (Queensland) Limited www.clan-ross.org and culture of Scottish Gaels. Richard Langford Ruaraidh MacAonghais, N each Cathrach (Convenor) ABN 30 093 578 860 [email protected] Invites membership of all people of  1106 Horshoe Lane Phone: 04 0482 2314 E-mail: [email protected] Scottish descent or association Contact L. Q. Ross Blacksburg, VA 24060 Web: www.ozgaelic.org The Secretary, P.O. Box 3233, South Brisbane, BC, 105 S. Graham Ave, Orlando, Fl 32803 e-mail: [email protected] Mall: PO Box A2259, SYDNEY SOUTH 1235  www.standrewsociety.com  CLAN YOUNG AUSTRALIA Victorian Scottish Union Inc Established 1905  Umbrella group representing the interest For those affiliated with of Scottish Clans and Societies in Victoria. the Young surname Affiliated Clans & Societies  Ballarat Highland Dancing Geelong Scottish Dance Ian J Young Balmoral Highland Dancing Society Glenbrae Celtic Dancers Caledonian Society Begonia City Highland Dancing Society Kilmore Celtic Festival Clan Scott Australia Group Convenor Brunswick Scottish Society Maryborough Highland Society Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch KT, K.B.E  Clan Donald Victoria Mornington Peninsula Caledonian Society Membership inquiries: of WA Inc. Clan Grant Scottish Country Dance Victoria Society Commissioner: Heather de Sylva Clan Macdonald Yarraville Inc The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Clan Young Australia Promotes Scottish Culture and Traditions Clan Mackenzie of Australia Robert Burns Club of Camperdown Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs: 10 Cedric Street  Clan Maclean Australia Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society in Perth, Western Australia Clan Sinclair Association Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. Parkdale VIC 3195 Clan Sutherland Australia [email protected] For further details contact John: 0427 990 754 Chief: Ms Ceilidh McKinna Robertson Info: Secretary, PO Box 320, Maclean, NSW, 2463 President: Mr Douglas Pearce Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Jan Macdonald E: [email protected] Find us on Facebook: T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 W: clanscottaustraliagroup.moonfruit.com www.facebook.com/groups/youngsofaustralia/ www.caledoniansocietyofwainc.com E: [email protected] www.victorianscottishunion.com

Page 22 • The Scottish Banner • October 2019 THE SCOTTISH BANNER SCOTTISH BANNER EVENTS Having a Clan event? Know of a Highland Games? Know where the pipes will be playing? Let Scottish Banner readers know of Scottish events both near and far with the Scottish Banner events page. Send us your community event, concert, meeting or anything with a Scottish twist! Please submit events either online at www.scottishbanner.com/events or email [email protected]. Please ensure you submit your event in the exact format we use below, events not submitted in this way cannot be guaranteed to be printed. Events will run both in print and online and is a free service.

20 - Kanahooka, NSW - Illawarra Scottish Fair 24 - Toukley, NSW - St Andrews Day - 02 -Auckland – Auckland Biannual Ceilidh Presented by the Illawarra Pipe Band with pipe band Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service Featuring the talented live band, The Chias, be prepared AUSTRALIA contests, Scottish stalls and more at Dandaloo Sports Oval, Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, 9:30am -Â St David’s Presbyterian for a wild night full of fun and laughter with ceilidh OCTOBER Kanahooka Rd. Gates open at 8.30 AM and Massed Bands Church, Victoria Ave, all welcome. Clan Banner bearers, dancing for all, no matter your age, stage or dancing Closing ceremony at approx. 3.00 PM. Info: Alison 0414 928 please arrive in time to marshal. Info: Susan Cooke ability! All dances are called (taught) at 595 Te Atatu Rd. 02 - 16 - Sydney, NSW - Scottish Gaelic 016, [email protected] or www.illawarrapipeband.com [email protected] Info: www.facebook.com/events/1376532139161529 Conversation Evenings Learners, practice your Gaelic in a friendly environment 20 - Perth, WA - Pipers Of Perth Solos 25 - Toowong, QLD - Jack McCandlish Memorial Contest 02- Carterton – Carterton Annual Dance with gentle guidance. Our learners’ group provides a Presented by the Highland Pipers Society of Perth at South 6/8 competitions for Juniors (4 parts) and Seniors (8 parts) Scottish country dancing at Carterton Events Centre. Info: www.lowerhuttscd.org.nz welcoming and supportive atmosphere to make use Perth Bowling Club. Info: www.pipebandswa.com.au presented by the Queensland Highland Pipers Society at The Walrus Club, 543A Coronation Dr. Info: www.qhps.org of your Gaelic, whether you have just a few words 25 - Toowoomba, QLD - Annual Dinner of The Society 08 - Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Night or are an advanced learner. Absolute beginners are of St Andrew of Scotland (Darling Downs Branch QLD) 29 - Perth, WA - St Andrew’s Day Ball 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. also welcome to come and listen to the sound of A special evening of traditional entertainment including: Celebrate with the Saint Andrew Society of Western Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub this beautiful language. Schedule 6:30 - 8:30 weekly Music by David Kemp Whiskey Mac, Highland Dancers Australia, with food, music and dance at Pan 09 - Hororata - The Hororata Highland Games at the Gaelic Cultural Centre, 1/64 Devonshire St, and a Haggis Ceremony at Downs Club Mylne St. Pacific Hotel. Info:www.saintandrew.org.au The event attracts over 300 competitors who compete Surry Hills. Info: [email protected] or www. Info: 07 4635 4086 or [email protected] 30 - Nationwide - Australia - Happy St Andrew’s Day in Highland Dancing, Piping and Drumming, Tug O’ celticlearningcomau.wordpress.com/book-now War and the Oceania Heavyweight Championship 26 - Inglewood, WA - Caledonian Society Saint Andrew’s Day is Scotland’s official national 04 - Perth, WA - Ty Fry and Southern Celt in concert day. Celebrate St Andrew’s Day (or in Scottish Gaelic (professional Scottish heavy athletics). 100s of stalls of WA Halloween Ceilidh from Clans to crafts with thousands of visitors, a See Tyler Fry’s charismatic tenor drumming live on stage ‘LÃ Naomh Anndrais’), Scotland’s patron saint! Dig out your Halloween costume and dance and sing to great Scottish day out. Info: Cindy Driscoll 021 366 with special guest pipers and drummers at the Irish Club Heel N toe Ceilidh Band. Listen to the piper. Children free 30 - Toowoomba, QLD - St Andrew’s Night 606 or www.hororatahighlandgames.org.nz in Subiaco. Progressive folk band, Southern Celt will also entry. Supper Supplied $20 non-members at Bob Daniels Toowoomba Caledonian Society & Pipe Band Inc. be performing. Tickets: www.trybooking.com/BFCOK Community Centre 895 Beafort St. Info: John 0427 990 754. is celebrating St Andrew’s Night in the Drayton Hall 09 - Wellington - Wellington Gaelic Club Ceilidh commencing at 7pm with the Pipe Band. Come along Come dance with the Wellington Gaelic Club at Wellington 06 - Armadale, WA - Armadale Highland 26 - Toowong, QLD - Sounds of Scotland & enjoy a night of Scottish entertainment. Lots City Pipe Band hall on the corner of Hanson and Stokes Gathering and the Perth Kilt Run Concert ‘Amazing Grace’ of community Scottish country dancing (all dances Street, Newtown. Info: www.wellingtongaelicclub.org.nz Celebrate all things Scottish at the largest Highland Come along for a night of Scottish entertainment are called). Cost of the evening is $10 Adults pp. 23 - Auckland - The Auckland Highland Games & Gathering Gathering event held in Western Australia! Gather as Brisbane Boys’ College Pipe Bands join with local School-aged children Over 13 $5.00 & under The region’s largest celebration of Scottish heritage your family and friends to enjoy the visual spectacle musicians and dancers to present their Sounds of 13 free & a plate of food for supper. Contact with pipe bands, Clans, entertainment and more at of kilts, bagpipes and a medieval fair at this free Scotland variety concert. Acts include Pipe Bands, Scottish Marg 0429700217 for large group bookings. the Ellerslie Event Centre. Info: www.ahg.org.nz community event. The morning begins with the Music, Dancers, Address to the Haggis and much more. fun and quirky Perth Kilt Run, the only fun run in Food, drinks, BBQ and Scottish stalls open at 4.30pm. 30 - Wongawallan, QLD - St Andrews Dinner 28 - Wellington -- VUW Wellington Scottish Interest Group Australia that’s done in a kilt at Minnawarra Park. Info: Director of Pipe Band, Steven Stanley 0400 953 Enjoy outstanding performances by the Brisbane City A friendly group for all interested in all facets of Scottish Info: (08) 9394 5000 or www.perthkiltrun.com.au 126 or tickets: http://bit.ly/SoundsOfScotland2019 Pipe Band. An event of over 20+ pipers and drummers life - history, culture, etc at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School, Old Government Buildings, 12 - Canberra, ACT - Canberra Highland Gathering celebrating St Andrews Day over 3 course dinner including 26 - St Lucia, QLD - Julie Appleton- haggis at Fox and Hounds Country Inn, 7 Elevation Lambton Quay. Info: www.wellyscots.wordpress.com Bagpipe bands will mass in Canberra to compete in Seymour Memorial Contest Dr. Info: 07 5665 7582 orwww.foxandhounds.net.au the ACT pipe band championship. Highland dancers Hornpipe and Jig competition presented by the 30 - Nationwide - New Zealand - Happy St Andrew’s Day Saint Andrew’s Day is Scotland’s official national will compete in the Canberra City Championship. Queensland Highland Pipers Society at Emmanuel 30 - Paralowie, SA - GSSHD Annual Concert day. Celebrate St Andrew’s Day (or in Scottish Gaelic There will also other music types throughout the College, Sir William MacGregor Dr. Info: www.qhps.org Annual dance concert presented by the Garrick Stewart day as well as historic re-enactments and the School of Highland Dancing at The Parks Recreation and ‘LÃ Naomh Anndrais’), Scotland’s patron saint! Tartan Warriors at Kambah District Playing Fields, 27 - Adelaide, SA - Clan Donald/ Sports Centre. Info: [email protected] MacFarlane/McNeil Luncheon Kett St. Info: www.canberragathering.com.au 30 - Townsville, QLD - Saint Andrews Gala Event Luncheon Fogular Furlan Centre, 69 Briar Rd, Felixstow. Tribute to St Andrews with pipes and drums, Parade SCOTLAND 12 - Canberra, ACT - Canberra Scottish Ball 12 noon. Ph. Eileen 8258 5756 or 0433 780 999 Presented by Canberra and District Scottish Country of Clan Banners, Highland dancing, Scottish food OCTOBER and more at Rydges Hotel, 23 Palmer St. Info: Dancing at Albert Hall, 100 Commonwealth NOVEMBER 03 - 03 - Pitlochry - Scotland - The Enchanted Forest Avenue, Yarralumla. Music by Chris Duncan and 0427 047 862 or [email protected] 02 - Adelaide, SA - Silver Chanter Competition Perthshire’s multi-award-winning sound and light Catherine Strutt. Info: www.rscds-canberra.org Piping competition presented by the R U Brown show, entitled Cosmos, is inspired by the vastness and 12 - Adelaide, SA - PACS Variety Evening Piobaireachd Society. Info: www.rubrown.org.au natural beauty of the skies that sit above the forest at Hosted by Port Adelaide Caledonian Society Inc. An NEW ZEALAND Faskally Wood. Info: www.enchantedforest.org.uk 02 - Wallsend, NSW - Gathering of the Celts evening of all different acts and entertainment. Bring a A night of Scottish music with Highland rock band, OCTOBER 11 - 19 - Glasgow - Scotland - Royal National Mòd plate of shared supper at 189 Semaphore Road, Exeter. Scotia Highland Dancers, Miners pipe Band and more at 04 - Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group The Royal National Mòd is Scotland’s premier Gaelic Info: 0419 819 834 or [email protected] Wallsend Diggers. Info: www.wallsenddiggers.com.au Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, festival and is famous for celebrating our Gaelic linguistic 13 - Brisbane, QLD - Bands in Parks: Big Bang 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read and cultural heritage. Info: www.ancomunn.co.uk 03 - Adelaide, SA - Clan MacLeod Cannon firings, brass band and bagpipes and drums. through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. 18 - 31 - Edinburgh - Scotland - The 31st Society South Australia AGM What a great experience! The Queensland Irish Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected] Scottish International Storytelling Festival Clan MacLeod Society South Australia AGM. Held at Powell Association Pipe Band is performing between 10am 05 - Nelson - NZ Young Piper of the Year Celebrates old traditions and new connections, building and 11am, the cannon firings are at 1pm and 2pm and residence, Semaphore Park. Info: Trevor Powell 0419 819 bridges between artists, regions and communities 834 or www.cmssa.org.au/calendar-of-events.html This exciting one day event consists of two core the brass band will be on from 1pm to 2pm at Fort sections: a standard style competition during the day in a feast of storytelling, music and dance. SISF Lytton. Info: www.facebook.com/pg/QIAPB/events/ 03 - Gosford, NSW - Central Coast Scottish Spectacular for ALL AGES and graded events including a full list 2019 will have a special focus between Scotland and Canada, aimed at developing new creative work, 13 - Melbourne, VIC - A Day with Robert This Scottish Highland Gathering will be held at The of Novice, D, C, and B Grade Piobaireachd and light collaborations and exchanges between Scottish and Entertainment Ground and will feature the NSW Pipe music followed by a concert style event in the evening Burns in Poetry and Song Canadian artists and festivals. Info: www.sisf.org.uk A free event to enjoy the works of Robert Band Championships, and the Central Coast Scottish for those entered in the Under 21 MSR & Hornpipe Jig Burns at Canterbury St Stables Community National Dancing Titles. Pipe bands, Drum Majors, events. Info: www.facebook.com/NZYoungPiper 23 - 17 - Kilmarnock-Scotland - Illuminight with Lidl the Tossing of the Caber, Tug O’War, Scottish stalls, Experience one of the UK’s most spectacular Centre. Info: Ina 03 8361 0308. 11 - Auckland - Scottish Fiddle Club Night food, and much more. It is a great day out for the illumination events at Dean Castle County Park. The 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM at St Luke’s Church, 130 Remuera Rd. 17 - 19 - Sydney, NSW - The Royal whole family. Info: www.scottishspectacular.com park is illuminated with light installations and AV Edinburgh Military Tattoo Info: www.freewebs.com/aucklandscottishfiddleclub 03 Adelaide, SA - Clan MacLeod effects, and there’s quality local food and drink to One of the greatest shows on earth, featuring more 12 - Auckland - Mini Pipe Band Contest Society South Australia AGM keep you refreshed. Info: www.illuminight.co.uk than 1200 performers from around the world, heads to New Zealand’s top mini pipe bands will Clan MacLeod Society South Australia AGM. Held at Powell 24 - 27 - Orkney - Scotland - Orkney Storytelling Festival Sydney direct from its annual season on the esplanade battle it out at Murphy’s Law Irish Bar. Info: residence, Semaphore Park. Info: Trevor Powell 0419 819 The 2019 Orkney Storytelling Festival takes place of Edinburgh Castle at ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic www.papakurapipeband.co.nz 834 orwww.cmssa.org.au/calendar-of-events.html around Orkney between the 24th-27th October. Park. Info:www.edinburghtattoosydney.com.au 12 - Wellington - Wellington Gaelic Club Ceilidh The festival has a truly international flavour, with 08 - 10 - Beechworth, VIC - Beechworth Celtic Festival 18 - 20 Nationwide – Billy Connolly Come dance with the Wellington Gaelic Club at Wellington storytellers from Scotland, Canada and Africa. Once again the Beechworth Celtic Festival is set to – The Sex Life of Bandages City Pipe Band hall on the corner of Hanson and Stokes Info: www.orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk attract the crowds of Celtic lovers to Beechworth with Hailed as the UK’s most influential comedian of Street, Newtown. Info: www.wellingtongaelicclub.org.nz 25 - 26 - Paisley - Scotland - Paisley Halloween Festival all time, legendary Scot Billy Connolly is coming the Beechworth Old Gaol Tattoo again featuring on the Saturday Night. The theme of the Tattoo is the 12 - Poriru - New Dancers’ Celebration Festivals Paisley Renfrewshire. Beware the witching to cinemas with this brilliant show from his final All dancers in the Wellington Region are invited to hour, when supernatural creatures and ghostly figures stand-up tour. Featuring blistering observations of celebration of Armistice Day in World War 1 - music and selected stories from the era re-enacted through join the New Dancers’ Celebration to be held at the Te gather their powers to scare even the bravest of souls everyday absurdities and a deeply personal interview, Rauparaha Arena, Porirua. Info: Tawa Scottish Country at Halloween. Info: www.whatsonrenfrewshire.co.uk The Sex Life of Bandages is a big screen tribute to the eyes of a family between 1914 and 1918. It’s the Dance Club 04 478 3077 or [email protected] 26 - Blair Atholl Perthshire - The an iconic funny man who is still as hilarious as ever! 100th anniversary of Armistice Day on the Sunday. Info: www.beechworthcelticfestival.com.au 15 - Wellington – Scottish Country Dancing Glenfiddich Piping Championship Screening in select cinemas across Australia, see The Glenfiddich was established in 1974 to inspire www.cinemalive.com to find a cinema near you. 16 - Brunswick, VIC - Brunswick Scottish Society’s Ceilidh Scottish dancing is social and energetic – exercise for body and mind, done to toe-tapping music! Have fun the world’s finest individual pipers and to seek the 19 – Sydney, NSW - Scots on The Rocks – Chaotic Ceilidh Join the Brunswick Scottish Society and learn how best overall exponents on Ceol Mor (or Piobaireachd, to do fun dances, eat a potluck dinner, and have and meet new people, while getting fit at Wellington Featuring music by ARIA Award winning Chris Duncan & High School, 249 Taranaki St. Info: 04 385 8919. the great music) and Ceol Beag (or light music, the Catherine Strutt, it will be a night of energetic and popular some BYO drinks. Don’t worry if you don’t know little music). The event is held annually in Blair 18 - 20 - Nationwide – Billy Connolly dances. Includes supper (BYO alcohol). Tickets $35pp in how to dance-the lovely people will teach you. Info: Castle. Following the competition, the annual Pipers’ – The Sex Life of Bandages The Rocks. Info: www.sotr.org.au/chaos or 0435 154 433. www.facebook.com/BrunswickScottishSociety Ceilidh will take place in the Atholl Palace Hotel in Hailed as the UK’s most influential comedian of 17 - Fremantle, WA - Champion of Champions Solos Pitlochry, with a limited number of tickets for this 19 - Glenbrook, NSW - History of the all time, legendary Scot Billy Connolly is coming Solo piping competition presented by the also available to purchase, along with a competition Celts in 20 Objects Study Day to cinemas with this brilliant show from his final Highland Pipers Society of Perth at Fremantle ticket. Info: www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/glenfiddich The Celts are defined linguistically, and yet we are able stand-up tour. Featuring blistering observations of to associate a vast collection of objects, decorative Sailing Club. Info: www.pipebandswa.com.au everyday absurdities and a deeply personal interview, 26 - Perth - Scotland - City of Perth and utilitarian, with Celtic culture over more than 24 - Forrest, ACT - St Andrews Day - The Sex Life of Bandages is a big screen tribute to Halloween Parade and Fun Night two millennia. An attempt to define the history of the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service an iconic funny man who is still as hilarious as ever! Celebrate the spookiest time of year with the Grand Celts through such a small sample as twenty objects Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, 9:30am - St Andrew’s Presbyterian Screening in select cinemas across New Zealand, see Halloween Parade through Perth city centre. There’s also live music and dance, storytelling, face painting is doomed to failure. Rather, this study day seeks to Church, State Circle, all welcome. Clan Banner bearers, www.cinemalive.com to find a cinema near you. and fun fair rides. Info: www.perthcity.co.uk touch on some of the more intriguing aspects of Celtic please arrive in time to marshal. Info: Susan Cooke 26 – 27 – Christchurch - Silver Chanter culture though the objects that are associated with it [email protected] Solo Piping Championships 26 - 27 - East Neuk of Fife - Scotland - Scottish and European Vintage Ploughing Championships at Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre, Corner Hare 24 - Sydney, NSW - St Andrews Day - Solo piping competitions and events at St Andrews The 57th Scottish Ploughing Championships &, Moore St. Info: [email protected] or www. Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan Service College, Normans Rd. Info: www.piping-dancing.org.nz celticlearningcomau.wordpress.com/book-now will also be hosting the 22nd European Vintage Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, 10am - St Stephen’s Uniting Church, 28 - Wellington - VUW Wellington Scottish Interest Group Ploughing Championships. Over 200 competitors 19 - Brunswick, VIC - Brunswick Scottish Society’s Ceilidh Macquarie St, all welcome. Clan Banner bearers, A friendly group for all interested in all facets of Scottish will battle it out in horse, vintage, modern and classic Join the Brunswick Scottish Society and learn how please arrive in time to marshal. Info: Susan Cooke life - history, culture, etc at the Victoria University of categories over the two day event, culminating in to do fun dances, eat a potluck dinner, and have [email protected] Wellington Law School, Old Government Buildings, the crowning of European Vintage and Scottish some BYO drinks. Don’t worry if you don’t know 24 - Sydney, NSW - Family Ceilidh [RSCDS] Lambton Quay. Info: www.wellyscots.wordpress.com Champions. Info: www.scotplough.co.uk how to dance-the lovely people will teach you. Info: Fun-filled Ceilidh dance social for families and non- 31 - Kenmore - Scotland - Celtic Samhain www.facebook.com/BrunswickScottishSociety dancers supported by more experienced dancers. NOVEMBER Come and hear about the ancient legends of Samhain. 20 - Adelaide, SA - Clan MacLeod SA Pub Luncheon Afternoon tea included. Music by James Gastineau- 01 - Auckland - Scottish Celtic Music Group Prepare for the most fearful day of all with a lovely Feel free to join Clan MacLeod as we lunch and catch up Hills. All Children must be accompanied by a Monthly on the first Friday at St Luke’s Church, winter storytelling and music session around the with each other at the Buckingham Arms, 1 Walkerville responsible adult, at Leichhardt Town Hall, Leichhardt. 130 Remuera Rd. All instruments welcome to read protective Crannog fire, as the veil between our Terrace, Gilberton for the annual pub lunch. Meal Info: [email protected] or https://rscds.org.au/ through favourite Scottish tunes and dance sets. world and the spirit world is lifted at the Scottish discounts available. Info: Nicole Walters 0415 654 836. attachments/Family_ceilidh_24Nov2019.pdf Info: John Hawthorn: [email protected] Crannog Centre. Info: www.crannog.co.uk

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IN THE SCOTTISH KITCHEN Things may go “bump in the night” in the kitchen this month and we hope these spooky recipes are enjoyed in the lead up to Halloween.

To make the stew creamier, remove To make the filling, place the pumpkin a small bowlful to a food processor chunks on a baking tray, cover with foil and and blitz it with 200ml/2fl oz of roast until tender. This will take about 20- stock. Pour it back in and the stew 30 minutes, depending on your pumpkin. becomes instantly more velvety. Press the cooked pumpkin in a coarse Serve the stew in bowls, finishing sieve and to extract any excess water. Set each helping off with a cooling aside to cool before blending in a food spoonful of sour cream. processor, or mashing by hand to a pureé. Lightly whisk the eggs and extra Pumpkin Seeds yolk together in a large bowl. Place the sugar, spices and the cream Ingredients: in a pan, bring to simmering point, 100g/3½oz pumpkin seeds giving it a whisk to mix everything ¼ tsp celery salt together. Then pour it over the eggs ¼ tsp salt and whisk it again briefly. Now add ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper the pumpkin pureé, still whisking to ¼ tsp paprika combine everything thoroughly. 1 tsp vegetable oil Reduce the oven temperature to Method: 180C/350F/Gas 4. Pour the filling into your Brush a frying pan with a very small pastry case and bake for 35-40 minutes, by amount of oil and place over a medium which time it will puff up round the edges heat. Add the pumpkin seeds, stirring but still feel slightly wobbly in the centre. frequently. They will expand and brown Remove the pie from the oven and fairly quickly, and when this is done, place the tin on a wire cooling rack. Serve place them in a bowl and add the salt, warm or chilled (stored loosely covered celery salt, freshly ground black pepper in foil in the fridge) with some chilled and paprika. This is delicious if the créme fraïche or whipped cream. pumpkin seeds are reasonably fresh.

alloween, celebrated on 31 Place the soup back into a clean Halloween Biscuits October, is widely assumed to saucepan and add the lime juice and Pumpkin Pie Ingredients: be an American festival but it’s cream, then season with salt and 100g/3½oz unsalted butter, actually an ancient Celtic pagan freshly ground black pepper. Return softened at room temperature Hcelebration. The term Halloween comes to the heat to warm through. 100g/3½oz caster sugar from All-hallow-even or All Hallows’ Eve To serve, ladle the soup into 1 free-range egg, lightly beaten - the evening before All Hallows’ Day, or soup plates and drizzle over a little 275g/10oz plain flour All Saints’ Day. The festival originated as extra virgin olive oil and a scattering 1 tsp vanilla extract of cress. Serve immediately. a pagan ritual among the Celts in Ireland To decorate: and Britain, who regarded 31 October 400g/14oz. icing sugar as the last day of summer, November Pumpkin Stew 3-4 tbsp water 2-3 drops food colourings being associated with the death and Ingredients: slaughter of animals that provided meat 40g/1½oz butter Method: for winter. In the old Norse religion, 2 onions, chopped Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Line sacrifices were made to the elves, and 1 carrot, chopped a baking tray with greaseproof paper. food was blessed and stored for winter. 1 stick celery, chopped Beat the butter and sugar together Irish and Scottish immigrants carried 3 sprigs rosemary in a bowl until combined. Halloween festivities in the 19th century. 2 bay leaves Beat in the egg and vanilla extract, a 1 clove garlic, chopped little at a time, until well combined. 400g/14oz lentils Stir in the flour until the mixture Pumpkin 1.2litres/2pints 2fl oz vegetable stock comes together as a dough. 600g/1lb 5oz assorted pumpkin or Roll the dough out on a lightly floured squash (total chopped weight) work surface to a thickness of 1cm/½in. Ingredients: Soup small bunch parsley, chopped Using Halloween-style biscuit cutters, For the pastry 2 tbsp red wine vinegar cut biscuits out of the dough and Sweet short crust pastry case (or a packet Ingredients: 4 tbsp sour cream carefully place onto the baking tray. of ready-made sweet short crust pastry 2 tbsp olive oil Bake the biscuits for 8-10 minutes, Method: with 40g/1½oz crushed pecans mixed in) 1 onion, finely diced or until pale golden-brown. Set In a large pan melt the butter and then For the pumpkin pie filling: 1kg/2lb 4oz pumpkin, peeled aside to harden for 5 minutes, add chopped onions, carrot and celery. 450g/1lb. prepared weight pumpkin and cut into 1cm/½in cubes then cool on a wire rack. Tear in the rosemary and a couple of flesh, cut into 1in/2.5 cm chunks 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped For the icing, sift the icing sugar bay leaves and after a few minutes add 2 large eggs plus 1 yolk (use the 500ml/18fl oz chicken stock the chopped garlic. When all have nicely into a large mixing bowl and stir in white for another dish) 1 lime, juice only softened, tip in the lentils and pour over enough water to create a smooth 75g/3oz. soft dark brown sugar 200ml/7fl oz double cream 1litre/1¾ pints of vegetable stock. Bring mixture. Stir in the food colouring. 1 tsp. ground cinnamon salt and freshly ground black pepper to the boil and then leave to simmer Carefully spread the icing onto ½ level teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg whilst you tend to the pumpkin. the biscuits using a knife and set 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, to serve ½ tsp. ground allspice Using a variety of pumpkins and aside until the icing hardens. 2 tbsp coriander cress ½ tsp. ground cloves squashes gives the stew a more complex ½ tsp. ground ginger Method: flavour. Here I use acorn squash and 275ml/10fl oz. double cream Scary Highland Mary Heat a frying pan until hot, then Cinderella, but you want to end up Ingredients: add the oil, onion and pumpkin with about 600g/1lb 5oz of peeled Method: 2 dashes of Tabasco Sauce and fry for 1-2 minutes. pumpkin in large chunks. Add them Pre-heat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. 1 splash of Worcestershire Sauce Add the garlic and cook for another to the stew, season and then pour If using a shop bought sweet crust pastry 45 ml./1½ oz. scotch whisky minute, then add the stock and bring over enough water to just cover all the case, use one that is 23cm/9in diameter 1 sprig of fresh rosemary, slightly bruised to the boil. Simmer for about 5-6 ingredients. Put a lid on the pan and and 4cm/1½in deep. If using your own minutes, or until the squash is tender. leave to simmer for 30-40 minutes. pastry, roll it out and use it to line a Method: Pour into a blender and blend to a fine When the stew is almost ready, 23cm/9in pie plate (not loose bottomed). Pour over ice in large rocks glass, purée (do this is batches if necessary). add the chopped parsley. Bake the pastry case blind for 20 minutes. stir well. Garnish with rosemary.

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German battleships sunk Scottish Genealogical Research in Scapa Flow sells below The Scottish Clans and asking price on eBay Let us build Four World War One German battleships Historical Figures Event Fund sunk in Scapa Flow in Orkney have been appeal to locals and visitors alike, attract your Scottish sold online for a total of £85,000. The vessels a diverse audience through accessible were part of the German High Seas fleet and programming and provide meaningful Family Tree! were deliberately scuttled 100 years ago. opportunities to engage with Scottish They were listed on auction site eBay with a clans and/or history makers. combined asking price of just over £800,000 Ron Dempsey for the four vessels. The ships include Celebrate clan history and heritage General Delivery the Karlsruhe, Konig, Kronprinz Wilhelm The Scottish Clans & Historical Figures Udora, Ontario and Markgraf. SMS Karlsruhe sold for £8,500, with Konig, Kronprinz Wilhelm and Event Fund supports the growth of events L0C 1L0, Canada Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop Markgraf all selling for £25,500 each. taking place outside Edinburgh and launches Round 5 of the Fund in The vessels cannot be removed from the seabed. Glasgow which publicly celebrate Scottish 2018. © Scottish Government. For details email: The listing described the ships as “used”, clans, recognised families and/or great adding the buyer would need to collect, but Scots internationally recognised for their [email protected] said the sale “will require the consent of the he Scottish Clans & Historical historical significance. Round 7 is now Ministry of Defence”. The advert further Figures Event Fund supports the open for applications from clans, clan added the buyer would own “a sizable naval growth of events taking place in societies and recognised families as well fleet amongst the largest in the world”. Scotland that publicly celebrate as non-clan organisations planning events Scotword answers The vessels were being sold by Dundee Tclans, recognised families and historical which publicly celebrate clan history resident Thomas Clark who purchased them in figures using their stories and legacy to and heritage and/or historical figures, from page 6 1981, with the intention of performing further bring communities together. Since its using their stories and legacy to bring Across: Down: salvage operations. However, the wrecks are launch in 2014, the fund has played a communities together. Strong applications 7 Gloamin 1 Almanac protected as scheduled monuments, which specific role in supporting clans, clan will appeal to locals and visitors alike, 8 Alloway 2 Kail stop him from doing that. Mr Clark said: “It societies and recognised families to deliver attract a diverse audience through has been an absolute pleasure to own and 10 Ballantrae 3 Sienna public-facing events. For Round 7, Cabinet accessible programming and provide dive on these iconic vessels and I regret I 11 Airs 4 Alderman Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External meaningful opportunities to engage with have not managed to do more with them 12 Caravans 5 Moray Firth Affairs Fiona Hyslop was delighted to Scottish clans and/or history makers. during the period of my ownership. relaunch the fund under its new name Eligible events applying to Round 7 must 14 Muffin 6 Hair pin I look forward to passing them on to the new ‘Scottish Clans & Historical Figures Event take place between 01 January 2020 and 31 15 Sean Connery 9 Prestonpans owner and hope they get the opportunity to 19 Bicarb 13 Alexandria realise their aspirations for the vessels.” Fund’, expanding it to accept applications December 2021. Deadline for applications is The ships were part of the German High from events that celebrate both clans and/ 5pm on Friday 11 October 2019. 20 Poachers 16 Niblicks Seas Fleet, which was famously scuttled at or great Scots internationally recognised For further information about the Scottish 22 Hind 17 Militia Scapa Flow, Stromness. The vessels were for their historical significance. Clans & Historical Figures Event Fund or 23 Ian Fleming 18 Grannie sunk on June 21, 1919 in what was to be one The fund is open to clans, clan societies to download the Guidance and Criteria 25 Finicky 21 Afloat of the final acts of the First World War. and recognised families as well as non- Document please see: www.eventscotland. 26 Mallaig 24 Mull clan organisations. Strong applications will org/funding/scottish-clan-event-fund The Royal Edinburgh Celebrating 25 years Military Tattoo 2019 CD & DVD

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1 - Battle of Largs - Scots defeated the Vikings 10 - Jock Stein, Scottish football manager, 16 - King James II born. 1430 23 - Death of John Boyd Dunlop who collapsed and died. He suffered a massive who were attempting to invade. 1263 16 - Poet Robert Fergusson died. 1774 re-invented the pneumatic tyre from the heart attack after watching Scotland draw design of Robert W Thomson. 1921 1 - Contract to construct the North 1-1 with Wales in a World cup qualifying 24 - Artist David Roberts born in Edinburgh. Bridge, Edinburgh, signed. 1763 match in Cardiff. As well as managing He died on 25 November 1864 whilst working 2 - Birth of Sir William Ramsay, Scottish the national team, from 1965-78 he was on a painting at St Pauls Cathedral. 1796 chemist who discovered helium, xenon, Celtic’s most famous manager, seeing them neon, argon, radon and krypton. 1852 win the European Cup in 1967. 1985 25 - Elvis Presley touched down at Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire, his only visit 2 - Death of Sir Thomas Lipton, grocer, 11 - Letter from Wallace and Moray to the to Scotland. This was also the only time tea merchant and contestant for the mayors of Lubeck and Hamburg saying that “The King” set foot on British soil. 1960 Americas Cup. 1931 “The Kingdom of Scotland has, by God’s Grace, recovered by battle from the power of the English”. 26 - George III crowned, beginning The Lubeck Letter was thought to have been a 60 year reign, one of the longest destroyed during World War Two, but was found in British history. 1760 in a Lubeck Museum and is now on permanent 16 - Bridge to the Isle of Skye opened. Built as loan to the Museum of Scotland. 1297 a private finance initiative, the bridge initially 26 - Lady Caroline Nairne, songwriter and had the highest tolls in Europe which led to poet, died at Gask, Perthshire. 1845 11 - Ship Great Michael launched a decade of non-payment protests. 1995 for King James IV. 1511 26 - Poet Sorley MacLean born on the 17 - Battle of Neville’s Cross island of Raasay. Sorley MacLean was 11 - The British fleet, under the command the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th of Admiral Adam Duncan (born in Forfar during which King David II was century. He died in 1996. 1911 in 1731), defeated the Dutch off the captured by the English. 1346 village of Camperdown, Holland. 1797 17 - James “Paraffin” Young obtained 11 - Scotland’s first First Minister Donald a patent for the extraction of paraffin 2 - The new paddle steamer Waverley was Dewar died suddenly at 63 after a fall on the from shale, starting the chemical launched from A. & J. Inglis’s yard on the steps of his official residence in Edinburgh. industry in West Lothian. 1850 Clyde. After providing services on the Firth of He was the first person to hold the position 18 - Aberdeen-born Denis Law became the Clyde she has been preserved and still takes of First Minister following the establishment youngest footballer to play for Scotland. At the of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. 2000 passengers “doon the watter” as the oldest time playing for Huddersfield Town, he was sea-going paddle steamer in the world. 1947 12 - Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime 18 years and 7 months old when he played Minister of UK, born in Lossiemouth. 1866 27 - William Smith, founder of the 3 - Treaty of Berwick, freeing David II from against Wales at Cardiff. Scotland won 3-0. He Boys’ Brigade, born. 1854 imprisonment by the English. 1357 12 -The birth of Magnus Magnusson, writer has recently been nominated Scotland’s best and broadcaster. Born in Iceland, Magnus player of the last 50 years by the SFA. 1958 28 - Birth of Robert Liston in Linlithgow 3 - Last Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh moved to Scotland when only a baby. He made who was to carry out the first operation in before the Union with Westminster. 1706 18 - The death of Margaret Tudor, English a career in journalism, finally achieving the princess, sister of Henry VIII, wife of James Britain with the aid of an anaesthetic. 1794 4 - Boys’ Brigade founded in Glasgow by post of Assistant Editor with The Scotsman. th IV, and mother of James V. It was through 28 - Dr Henry Faulds, a Scots medical Sir William Alexander Smith. The first Magnusson died on January 7 2007. 1929 Margaret, a paternal great-grandmother missionary working in Japan, published a uniformed youth organisation in the world, 13 - Battle of Aberdeen, James Graham, 1st (through Henry, Lord Darnley), and a letter in “Nature” which gave the first evidence from one small company of 35 boys it has Marquess of Montrose, sacked the city. 1644 maternal great-grandmother (through Mary, that fingerprints could be used as proof of grown into a worldwide organisation with 13 - Birth of Allan Ramsay, painter and Queen of Scots), that James VI based his guilt or innocence in legal cases. 1880 companies in over 60 countries. 1883 son of Allan Ramsay the poet. 1713 claim to the throne of England following 28 - Journalist and novelist Cliff Hanley the death of Queen Elizabeth I. 1541 14 - Second marriage of King Alexander (Dancing in the Streets) born in Glasgow. 1922 III (to Yolanda de Dreux). 1285 19 - The first public-hire sedan chairs 29 - James Boswell, biographer of became available in Edinburgh. A sedan 14 - Edward Bruce, brother of Robert the Bruce, Dr Johnston, born at Blair’s Land, was an enclosed chair for one person, killed in a battle near Dundalk, Ireland. 1318 Parliament Square, Edinburgh. 1740 carried on poles by two men. They reached 14 - Birth at St James’ Palace, London of the height of their popularity in the 18th 30 - Caledonian Canal opened. The King James VII, second son of King Charles century, when there were as many as 180 Caledonian Canal links the west of I and brother of King Charles II. 1633 sedans for public hire in Edinburgh. 1687 Scotland to the East, and makes it possible 14 - The 50 pence decimal coin was first to navigate a canal boat journey coast to issued, replacing the ten shilling note. 1969 20 - Explosion at Clarkston Toll coast right through Scotland’s Great Glen, shopping centre, killing 12. 1971 14 - Introduction of plastic shopping bags between Fort William and Inverness. It is charges in Scotland. The number of plastic 21 - Last tram car ran in Dundee. 1956 scenically spectacular along its whole length, bags handed out in stores was slashed by surrounded as it is by Scotland’s highest mountains and most beautiful scenery. 1822 5 - Balloon flight by Italian aeronaut 80% - the equivalent of 650 million carriers - in Vincenzo Lunardi from Heriot’s School, the first year of Scotland’s 5p charge.2014 30 - First moving image on a television Edinburgh to Ceres in Fife. 1785 15 - Birth of poet Allan Ramsay, father screen when John Logie Baird transmitted of Allan Ramsay the painter. 1686 the image of a 15-year-old office boy 5 -The birth of Jock Stein, famous Scottish in his London workshop. 1925 football manager. Stein was manager of Celtic between 1965 and 1978, during which 30 - Glasgow born Scottish aviator Scottish time it was one of the most successful clubs aviator Jim Mollison died. Mollison became in Europe, and in 1967 became the first 21 - The Queen officially opened the Burrell the RAF’s youngest serving officer, the first British club to win the European Cup. 1922 Collection in Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park. person to fly solo east to west across the The museum’s collection had been donated to Atlantic and flew from Scotland to Australia 6 - Scot Ebenezer Henderson formed the the city nearly 40 years earlier by the shipping in 8 days, 19 hours and 28 minutes. 1959 first Congregational church in Sweden. He magnate Sir William Burrell. The Burrell 31 - Pneumatic bicycle tyres were spent many years travelling throughout Collection is now closed for refurbishment Scandinavia and Russia, giving out bibles patented by inventor John Boyd and will reopen in 2021 after a multi-million Dunlop from Ayrshire. 1888 translated into local languages. 1811 pound redevelopment is complete. 1983 7 - Birth of Charles McLaren, one of the 15 - Edinburgh’s Balmoral Hotel opened its 22 - Foundation stones of main Post founders of the Scotsman newspaper. 1782 doors for the first time. The hotel was originally Office and National Museum of Scotland 8 - Rev Henry Duncan, founder of known as the North British. Acclaimed as laid by Prince Albert in his last public the first savings bank, born in the one of the great railway hotels, it originally engagement before his death. 1861 Manse at Lochrutton. 1774 boasted 300 bedrooms and 52 bathrooms. 23 - Treaty between King John Balliol of It was later renamed The Balmoral — which Scotland and King Philippe IV of France 9 - King James IV ratified the Charter means “majestic dwelling” in Gaelic. 1902 incorporating the Surgeons and Barbers. 1506 which promised mutual help against the 15 - Poet William Souter died in Perth. 1943 English - the start of the “Auld Alliance”. The 9 - Death of Lord Home of the Hirsel, Alliance, which was described in 1942 by 31 - Hampden Park Stadium opened in also known as Sir Alec Douglas- 15 - HMS Hawke was shot and sunk off the coast of Aberdeen by a German submarine. Charles de Gaulle as ‘the oldest alliance in Glasgow as the home of Queen’s Park Football Home, formerly Foreign Secretary Launched in 1891 the ship was the sixth British the world’ promised mutual help against the Club. The national stadium of Scotland and UK Prime Minister. 1995 warship to be named Hawke. 524 officers English, asserting that should either Scotland bears the name of an English politician John 10 - Writer and geologist Hugh Miller and men died, including the ship’s captain, or France be invaded by England, the other Hampden and is actually the third venue to born on the Black Isle, Cromarty. 1802 Hugh Williams, with only 70 survivors. 1914 country would invade English territory. 1295 be called Hampden Park in Glasgow. 1903

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known as the Wizard of Yester. A pact with skeletons reconfigured from multiple By: David C with the devil granted him an army individuals or with heads - so crucial to Weinczok of hobgoblins who built his hall and Celtic spirituality - being prominently terrorised his foes. For many years after displayed in stone compartments. its ruination in the 17th century locals Of Rousay’s cairns, Blackhammer and avoided it at all costs, believing that a Taversoe Tuick are the ones that had me Spooky passage beneath the Goblin Hall led to doubting myself. The latter is spread over a ‘Hell Mouth’. two levels, the lower section accessed by a The only way in to the Goblin Hall is black iron ladder dropping through a small by a low, hidden door in the forest hillside gap in the floor’s masonry into a chamber leading into subterranean darkness. where a crouched skeleton and three Through the Hall a stone staircase heaps of cremated bones were uncovered descends further still and around twenty- during excavations. While horror about Scotland five steps a rubble barricade bars the way, such findings is a thoroughly modern the handiwork of villagers who sought phenomenon, with the dead being a part to seal up the evil summoned by the of daily life in the ancient and medieval Wizard of Yester. With the only source of worlds, that’s little enough consolation for light being the small pocket torch I had your imagination when you wander inside to hand, and standing at the bottom of as the night closes in. a claustrophobically narrow staircase Greyfriars Kirkyard. several storeys below the surface, it was Honourable Mention: Roslin Yew all too easy to think how the story of that Tree-Roslin Glen, Midlothian day’s sojourn would end: “and he was Great slaughter descended on Roslin s Halloween approaches and the at which point he is said to make an never seen again.” on 24 February 1303 when the Scots nights grow longer and colder, appearance, especially if done after dark. defeated three English armies in a the stage is set for stories of the One glimpse of Greyfriars in the murk of Blackhammer & Taversoe Tuick single day along the steep banks of macabre. There is hardly a castle, the haar, the thick mist which sometimes Cairns-Isle of Rousay, Orkney Roslin Glen. One Englishman had a Atown or kirkyard in Scotland that does rolls in off the Firth of Forth and shrouds Alone on a desolate Orcadian hillside great war hound with him, and both not claim its share of ghosts, demons, the city, and it is easy to see why many as the last vestiges of sunlight retreated were slain in the chaos. The night after or malevolent monsters, a tendency visitors see shadows behind every grave. across the waters of the Eynhallow the battle, chroniclers recorded that the that reflects the deeply seated fears that Sound, I pulled open a creaky metal Scots were kept awake by the terrible our ancestors felt as the peril of winter Yester Castle-Gifford, East Lothian hatch and leapt down into a 5,000 year- baying of a hound in the glen, and the scraped closer. In some places, no such More than any other Scottish castle, Yester old tomb where several skeletons had man who slew the Englishman and his tales are required to make the hair on has an air of dark secrecy. The once-mighty been found. In retrospect, it was exactly hound was found dead having been the back of even the most committed fortress is now barely perceptible through as creepy as it sounds. well only hours earlier. rationalist’s neck stand up. the trees in a valley near Gifford, just close Rousay is home to one of Scotland’s The beast has been heard and sighted In that spirit, I wandered through my enough to the path to tempt the eye yet far most magnificent collections of prowling the area around Roslin Castle, local Edinburgh graveyard and decided on enough to seem isolated. At first it appears chambered cairns, ancient funerary a stronghold of the Sinclair’s a short walk four historic sites that gave me the creeps as though small scatterings of masonry are and ceremonial monuments in use away from the world famous Rosslyn more than any others in Scotland. all that remain of the 13th century castle, over centuries by the local farming Chapel. There you will find an ancient yew If you’re planning to visit Scotland and yet follow them far enough and they give communities. They rise like grassy whales’ tree, its twisting branches grasping out in fancy testing your nerve, these places will way to what seems an impossibly large backs from the heather, some fifteen in all all directions. It is tightly pressed against have you leaving a light on in the night stone edifice. A corridor of trees lead down on the island, and each is as distinctive as the walls of the early 14th century castle, long after you leave them. overgrown steps to dark windows peering its name - Taversoe Tuick, Knowe of Yarso, with several small gaps in the masonry in to the depths of a brooding chamber and Blackhammer being but a few. It was allowing just a sliver of a glimpse into Greyfriars Kirkyard-Edinburgh known as the Goblin Hall. Blackhammer that I descended into via the the darkened vaults beneath the castle. Often named among the most haunted Its most infamous laird, Sir Hugo de hatch, emerging into an enclosure once The feeling of being watched from within locations in Britain, Greyfriars Kirkyard is Giffard, was a guardian of the young used for displaying and revering the dead. them is palpable while standing under the in the gothic heart of Edinburgh. Though it Alexander III and, as courtly rumours Human as well as animal remains have yew, and few linger long in this shadowy is perhaps best known as the home of the and local lore claimed, a necromancer been found in cairns across Scotland, often corner of the glen. loyal dog Greyfriars Bobby, the kirkyard’s macabre side has drawn thousands of ghost hunters, mediums, and terror- seekers from all around the world through its wrought iron gates. Auckland More than 100,000 bodies lie beneath the soils here, and following periods of harsh storms and lashing rains they have been known to make the occasional Highland reappearance. Burials began here in the 1560’s, with plague victims, merchants, religious rebels, soldiers, criminals, Games lords and lawyers all amongst its eternal inhabitants. There are too many skull Saturday 23rd November 2019 and crossbones etched on to graves to count, and the visage of the mysterious Taversoe Tuick chambered cairn. Blackhammer Cairn. The Ellerslie Event Centre Green Man can be seen on many of 80 Ascot Ave, Remuera the mausoleums. Mortsafes adorn several graves, great iron cages built to deter grave robbers who plundered Scottish Clans, Edinburgh’s dead to sell the cadavers to Dancers, Bands, Stalls the nearby medical school. The epicentre of the alleged hauntings and more. is the tomb of George ‘Bluidy’ Mackenzie, a 17th century Lord Advocate who rounded up, tortured, and executed Contact: David Harvey countless Covenanters a mere stone’s Mobile: 021 121 9537 or throw from his final resting place. His poltergeist is said to stalk the kirkyard Email: [email protected] searching for Covenanters to torment. @Akhighlandgames A popular rite of passage for local schoolchildren is to taunt Mackenzie’s ahg.org.nz Greyfriars Kirkyard. Roslin Castle Yew Tree. ghost three times at the door of his tomb

The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 27 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Fort George - Celebrating 250 years as a Highland Fortress

Europe’s most impregnable fortress. © Crown Copyright HES. By: Judy Vickers

This year marks 250 years since Fort George was built in the Scottish Highlands. It is considered one of Europe’s mightiest artillery fortresses, a training base for Highland regiments and is now today a tourist attraction as Judy Vickers explains.

ort George has not been short of 19th century nicknamed it “Fort Misery”. Even the café is called The Red Hackle, repercussions which were to reverberate contradictions over its 250-year It began as a symbol of hated imperialistic after the feather plume worn by Black in the Highlands for decades to come was history; it was designed to be power, but has become a well-loved part Watch troops. the plan for a new, stronger Fort George. Europe’s most impregnable fortress of the landscape of the Highlands. A site outside the town, thought to F– and yet it has never heard a shot fired in Even today the fort, cared for by Historic The Jacobite rebellions be more easily defendable and away anger. Its scenic location, on a promontory Environmental Scotland, has a curious The fort was completed 250 years ago this from Inverness Town Council claims jutting out into the Firth of Moray, helps to duality; tourists mingle freely with Black year, having taken 21 years to construct for compensation for any damage, was make it a popular tourist attraction – yet Watch soldiers – officially known as 3 SCOTS and costing almost twice its original chosen. The new location, Ardersier Point, troops garrisoned there in the 18th and – who have been stationed there since 2007. budget. The origins for its construction was 11 miles north-east of the town and lie in the Jacobite rebellions of the 18th just five miles from Culloden on a barren century. Following the 1715 uprising, sandy spur of land owned by the loyalist when many Highlanders fought in support Cawdor Estate, and surrounded on three of the exiled Catholic Stuart family’s bid sides by the sea. The new fort was designed to regain the throne, the key Great Glen by Lieutenant General William Skinner and was defended by three fortifications; Fort the buildings created by the Adam family William, Fort Augustus and the original of architects, renowned for their neo- Fort George, built around the old Inverness classical buildings of Edinburgh. Castle within the town. Most impressive fortress in Europe Skinner, Britain’s Chief Royal Engineer and Fort George has not been short most famous for his fortification work in of contradictions over its 250- Menorca and Gibraltar, created the largest and most impressive fortress in Europe at the time. year history; it was designed to be Europe’s most impregnable fortress – and yet it has never heard a shot fired in anger.

But when the Highlands rose again, this time in 1745, led by the Stuart claimant Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fort A glimpse into the past at Fort George. Augustus and Fort George fell to the Fort George barracks. © Donald MacLeod. rebels. The Jacobites were defeated at the © Malcolm McCurrach. Battle of Culloden in 1746 but among the

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But the French, nor any other enemy either domestic or foreign, ever did. By the time of its completion support for the Jacobite cause had dwindled.

Fort Misery Too expensive to abandon, it became a training base for Highland regiments recruited to fight in the French and American wars – records show that in the near 70 years between Culloden and Waterloo, about Fort George entry. Reenactors at Fort George. 50,000 men were recruited into the British © Crown Copyright HES. © Malcolm McCurrach. Army from the Highlands and Islands. Its coastal defences were beefed up in the The ramparts stretch for more than 1km, had its own bakery, brewery, chapel and mid-19thcentury during fears of French The Black Watch, which traditionally enclosing more than 40 acres within the workshops, with a hospital and prison aggression, one of very few alterations to recruits from Tayside and Fife, was walls which were capable of holding a added soon afterwards. have been carried out over its 250 years. originally raised to police the Highlands in garrison force of 2,000 – around a quarter Little wonder than that the original Nicknamed “Fort Misery” by soldiers the wake of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. of the size of Inverness in the middle of the budget of £92,673 19s 1d rose to a final fed up with its remoteness, the fortress But this continuous history of military use 18th century. It could house 2,500 barrels £200,000, more than £20 million in today’s became a barracks for the Seaforth may soon come to an end – in 2016 the British of gunpowder in dry, secure conditions, prices – although part of that and the Highlanders when they were formed in Government announced that as a military any attack on any wall was within the reason for the lengthy construction period 1881. It also housed troops during the First base, Fort George would close within 15 years. sights of at least one cannon and shingle was due to the remote location. and Second World wars. Its role as a tourist attraction will remain, on the ground outside prevented an Lt Col James Wolfe, a veteran of Today, it is still an active military base, however. More than 60,000 arrive at the site enemy bringing up heavy guns. It could Culloden, described it as “the most home to the 3rd Battalion, The Royal each year to visit the fort’s Highland Museum, also be relieved by sea through its own considerable fortress and best situated Regiment of Scotland or 3 SCOTS, but walk its ramparts, and see the barracks, dog small harbour in case of a siege and in Great Britain”, and English writer Dr more generally known by their former cemetery and chapel – and perhaps catch Samuel Johnson was impressed when regimental name The Black Watch. sight of dolphins in the sea just off the point. he visited with his biographer James Boswell in 1773 as part of their tour of the Highlands. “I could not help being struck with admiration in finding upon this barren sandy point such a building – such a dinner – such company; it was like enchantment.” And when the French looked as if they would assault it in 1759, Lord Ligonier, commander-in-chief of the British Army, said: “I shall be extremely glad they would Fort George. Museum events at Fort George. do it, because I look upon that fort to be © Crown Copyright HES. © Crown Copyright HES. impregnable.” Brexit advice video launched for European visitors SCOTTISH about post Brexit travel, VisitScotland wanted to create an informative video ACCESSORIES SHOPPE to counter these concerns. KILT HIRE A warm Scottish welcome Both tourists and business travellers to Scotland will find informative advice as well as links for more information on specific issues and the film will be updated as the situation evolves in the lead up to Brexit. Judy Mariëns, isitScotland is ensuring that Senior Market Manager for Europe European visitors aren’t at VisitScotland said: “Our European put off coming to Scotland visitors are incredibly important to us, because of uncertainty and so it is important we help them stay • Sydney’s Finest Highland Regalia • Australia’s largest supplier of authentic Vmisinformation around Brexit. as informed as possible before they Stockist. 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The Scottish Banner • October 2019 • Page 29 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Scottish stories of horrorBy: Eric Bryan and the supernatural ‘On All-Hallows Eve, there is a are three stories of the supernatural by Scott. Wandering Willie’s Tale appears bogey on every stile.’ as in insert in the epistolary section of Scottish proverb the novel Redgauntlet (1824). This is a Highland ghost story, taking place around amhain, the Celtic-pagan festival the year 1700. Narrated by Willie Steenson celebrated from 31 October to 1 who is an itinerant musician, it involves November, marked a point about a supernatural encounter connected to midway between the autumn equinox Willie’s and the Redgauntlet families. The Sand winter solstice, when the harvest season story culminates in an encounter between closed and winter began. Bonfires were part Steenie Steenson (Willie’s grandfather) and of the ceremony, and in some regions of the ghost of Robert Redgauntlet, Steenson’s Scotland people carried turf or fir torches feared and notorious landlord. ‘Wandering sunwise (clockwise, which was regarded as Willie’s Tale’ is regarded as one of the high the fortunate course or direction) around points of Redgauntlet. their fields and homes in the belief that ‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror’ was the ritual would protect their property published in The Keepsake in time from evil forces during the coming season. for Christmas, 1828. Scott heard this Sometimes the torch was lit by the flame of ghost story when he was a child from a a communal bonfire and was then used to spinster named Mrs Swinton. The tale, ignite the people’s hearth fires, a possibly set around 1700, includes a Paduan Illustration by William Strang for ‘Thrawn Janet’. Public Domain druidic tradition which symbolically united doctor with strange powers, and a the residents of a village or community. The ceremony involving a human skull. Lady Robert Louis Stevenson put it away ‘in a justifiable disgust, the tale ancient Celtic Samhain – or Halloween – is Jemima’s husband Sir Philip Forester has being horrid,’ as he wrote to friend and an ideal time to sit beside the fire and enjoy gone to Flanders to serve as a volunteer literary critic Sidney Colvin. Stevenson some classic Scottish fiction; in particular, with the Duke of Marlborough’s army. finally returned to the story and completed short stories of horror and the supernatural Many months pass by without her it for the 1884 Christmas number of the by a few Scottish literary giants. hearing any news of her husband, so Pall Mall Gazette. Lady Jemima decides to pay a visit to the Markheim is a macabre story with Sir Walter Scott Paduan doctor, who reputedly has the features which prefigure Jekyll and Hyde ability to reveal to his visitors scenes and by two years. The supernatural enters, actions of far-away loved ones. Through possibly in the form of the Devil, though the agency of a certain looking glass, Stevenson leaves room for the reader to Lady Jemima witnesses Sir Philip in an conjecture. Through this agency, the tale act of betrayal against her. develops into a parable about duality, and ‘The Tapestried Chamber’ likewise good and evil. Stevenson wrote the story appeared in The Keepsake near Christmas, for an 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1828. A ghost story, Scott said that writer Robert Louis Stevenson, but it was published as part of the 1885 Miss Anna Seward narrated this tale to him photographed by James Notman. Unwin’s Christmas Annual. a number of years previously. The story Public Domain tells of General Browne who, back from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle American war, is travelling in the western Beyond The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and counties. Drawn to Woodville Castle, the Mr Hyde, Stevenson has other frightful home of Lord Woodville (whom it turns surprises in store in his short horror out was a schoolfellow of Browne’s), stories, which he dubbed ‘crawlers’. After Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Henry the General spends the night in an old debuting in magazines or newspapers, Raeburn. Public Domain room decorated with tapestries. The next the stories were published in the morning at breakfast Browne appears collections The Merry Men and Other Though famous for his massive novels, drawn and dishevelled. Lord Woodville Tales and Fables (1887), and Tales and Scott was one of the earliest practitioners urges him to explain why he is in such Fantasies (1905). ‘A masterpiece in of what evolved into the modern short a state, and the General narrates the thirteen pages’ was Henry James’ verdict story. Of interest for Halloween reading frightening events of the night before. onThrawn Janet, an historical Scottish hill parish ghost story. Stevenson wrote the tale in a leased Highland cottage near Pitlochry in the summer of 1881. Written in Scots, in the first sentence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Stevenson sets the morose tone with a George Grantham Bain Collection, little word-painting and verbal invention: Public Domain ‘The Reverend Murdoch Soulis was long minister of the moorland parish If you’re an enthusiast of stories of of Balweary, in the vale of Dule.’ The the supernatural you may have been gruesome story premiered in the October frustrated by Sherlock Holmes’ beacon 1881 edition of The Cornhill Magazine. of logic coldly illuminating the dark The Body Snatcher, though not a tale corners in The Hound of the Baskervilles of the supernatural, chills through its and The Sussex Vampire. But Doyle horrific elements. The story is based explored supernatural themes in many on the practices of Dr Robert Knox and other stories. Perhaps following on from ‘resurrection men’ Burke and Hare. Knox’s Stevenson’s ‘crawlers’, Doyle called his enthusiasm for dissection generated a works of this variety ‘creepers’. (Twilight black market for corpses, supplied by Taleswas a title he had in mind for an early William Burke and William Hare. (Burke collection of such fare.) A watercolour by John William Wright for a scene from ‘My Aunt Margaret’s was tried and executed for murder in Doyle takes us to the Louvre in The Ring Mirror’ portraying what Lady Jemima sees in the looking glass. Public Domain 1829.) Stevenson became so appalled of Thoth, which was first published inThe while working on the story in 1881 that he Cornhill Magazine in January 1890.

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When an Egyptologist is locked into the inspired by the Egyptomania then current Saki that drown. The story first appeared in the museum overnight, he meets a curious in Britain, which Lot No. 249 and The Ring Westminster Gazette in February 1911. French-speaking gentleman amongst of Thoth instigated. Saki brings Greek mythology to a similar the Egyptian artefacts. The man, who The Brown Hand is a ghost story which pastoral locale in The Music on the Hill, has seemed to have conducted a ritual Doyle requested you read ‘round the fire.’ where another attempt to escape the city over a mummy in the museum, tells the A doctor must administer to a patient in results in an uncanny rural encounter. Egyptologist his incredible story. India, but when the medical man returns The protagonist Sylvia Seltoun enters a Doyle’s Lot No. 249 likewise is to Wiltshire, he is pursued. The plot is nut copse surrounded by yews and in Egyptian-themed. The story centres on based on an Indian urban legend in which a clearing finds a bronze statue of Pan. Edward Bellingham, an Oxford student a man loses a hand in an accident, then Meddling with an offering of grapes which of Egyptology. Bellingham has won an dies some months later. The ghost of the had been placed there proves to be a Egyptian mummy at auction, after which man then rises and goes searching for the foolhardy move. strange events begin to occur, including lost appendage. Nightly haunting for four While they wrote their stories, whether mysterious physical attacks on some of years preys on the health of the doctor by candle, gas or electric light, maybe Bellingham’s foes. The story premiered and his wife, until at last a solution to the somewhere in the backs of the minds of in Harper’s Magazine in September 1892. dilemma is found. The story debuted in all four of these authors lingered the old Readers will recognise the genre of tales, The Strand Magazine in May 1899. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki). E.O. Scottish proverb, ‘On All-Hallows Eve, Hoppé, Public Domain there is a bogey on every stile.’

Burma-born Hector Hugh Munro was proud of his Scottish heritage. Writing as ‘Saki’, he became a specialist in brilliantly- twisting short stories. In her Biography of Saki (1924) Munro’s sister Ethel wrote of him: ‘To me, his strongest characteristics were – whimsicality, keen sense of humour, love of animals, and pride in being Highland.’ She said that they were Celtic on both sides, being descended from the Macnab clan through their mother. Ethel credited Saki’s ability to create stories of the uncanny to his ‘Celtic sense of the unseen.’ In Saki’s story The Peace of Mowsle Barton, a traveller named Crefton Lockyer seeking peace in the countryside instead is put on edge when he seems to become ‘The Peace of Mowsle Barton’ and ‘The entangled in a feud between two witches. ‘He ran for his life.’ An illustration by Martin van Maële for ‘Lot No. 249’. Music on the Hill’ were published in the Lockyer is confronted with inexplicable Public Domain short story collection The Chronicles of occurrences such as water in kettles Clovis (1912). Public Domain which won’t come to a boil, and ducks

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