Neepawa Lily Festival, kilts, & antique shows

[Mr. Kilt]

This weekend our little town hosted it's annual Lily Festival. Lots of things going on including a street fair, car shows, town-wide yard sales, and an antique show & sale.

Friday afternoon I wandered around downtown taking in the many sidewalk sale events. At the local thrift shop I stumbled across these two cool finds...




Friday night I went to a small car show at the local drive-in restaurant, wearing my SWK Hunting McLeod standard. Huge crowds, lots of cool cars, and the only comments about the kilt came from a couple of friends. I would have been more surprised if they hadn't commented, lol. No pics from the event, sorry.

Today I went to check out the antique sale and came home with these. Sorry for the poor pics, I'll try to scan the stereoscope cards later.

Card caption is "Scotland's pride - The great Forth Bridge and the Highland Kilt"


Card caption is "Comin' thro' the rye".

I also got this interesting book published in 1816, called "Scots Worthies".



I also met up with a local piper who spends alot of his noon-hour lunch breaks playing the pipes in the local cemetary. I told him about Xmarks, hopefully he'll join in some day.

All in all, a pretty decent weekend!

[Big Mikey]

Those are some really cool finds Al! But I think they would look better in my collection!

[Chrissss]

Some interesting items you found there, Al.

Sounds like you had a good time. And it was a great weekend for the event.

Chris...

[dfmacliam]

always a good time searching and finding the treasures... its good you had a great time..

[Dr Mac]

Nice finds there... have been in the process of reading through "Scots Worthies" for some time, now. Amazing accounts of Scottish martyrs, reformers, pastors, and the like, that are both encouraging and humbling. Thanks for the pics!

[GMan]

I love those kind of fines.

[Mr. Kilt]

I'm amazed at the goodies I'm finding in our little town. However, the area did have a strong Scottish immigrant base.

Mikey...if you ever make a trek out this way I can always let you fondle some of the collection. LOL