Last night my wife and I attended the Burns Supper in Murphy, NC, hosted by the people who put on the Appalachian Highland Games. It was a lovely event, and I thought I'd share a few photos.


Here I am with friends Henry and Rebecca Scott. They own Purple Heather Pottery. We carry their products in our museum gift shop. They make hand thrrown pottery items featuring clan crests, thistles, and other celtic motifs. Very nice stuff! Rebecca is holding my youngest son, Alister. (Whom we learned during the evening does NOT like bagpipes -- boy is he in the wrong family!)


Here I am, posing for my wife. She was taking a close-up of my kilt hose. She's been working for the past month knitting these for me, and just finished them yesterday morning. The company who made the yarn is holding an on-line contest where you enter a photo of an item you made from their yarn, and the winner gets -- more yarn! If she decides to enter, I'll be sure to post the link here so everyone can vote for her!

I'm wearing the Highland Granite tartan (Lochcarron, 16 oz) in a 6 yard knife pleated kilt I made. The sporran is skunk-fur, from the Ferguson Britt collection. It's actually not mine, but I borrowed it from our gift shop inventory to complete my "black and white" look for the night! (So if you like it, it's for sale!)

It was a very fun evening -- I was invited to give the Immortal Memory speech. I'm going to be giving the same speech at a Burns Supper tonight, in Franklin, NC, hosted by the Friends of the Scottish Tartans Museum. I'll post pictures from that event, as well.

I'll probably later on do a blog post with more pics and a more detailed account of both Burns Suppers, but until then, I had to post these quick pics (to show off both my baby -- who was well behaved the whole evening -- and my wife's handiwork!)