I'm pleased to announce that word has just come over the wire that after a years absence from it's original location that the BELLINGHAM HIGHLAND GAMES will be returning "home" this year to beautiful Hovander Homestead Park in Ferndale Washington!


The games will be held Saturday / Sunday on June 07th & 08th, with a "Calling of the Clans /Flaming Saltire" and Ceilidh/Talent Show on Friday evening June 06th.

The website for the games is:
http://www.bellinghamhighland.org/

Hovander Homestead Park website:
http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/parks/hovander/hovander.jsp

and this:
http://whatcom.kulshan.com/Washingto...ander_Park.htm

Map showing location:
http://localsearch.live.com/localsea...id=ansPhBkYp01

News story about the sudden change of venue:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/357600.html

This site holds many fond memories for me. Not only is it where for many years the Bellingham Highland Games has been held, but is the location for an annual Civil War reenactment & encampment my old (now defunct) unit use to participate in, and is also the location where my wife & I were married in an 1860s styled ceremony back in July of 1996!

Hope to see many of you there. Stop by the Clan Mackay booth I'll be hosting (& hopefully sporting my Newsome made box pleat in Modern Mackay by then too! ) & say hi!