National Park Service Kilt USA

[RockyR]

SNIP...
Rocky, if your customer does bring up the idea again, please give him my contact information.

If my customer contacts me directly about creating a tartan for him and his fellow park service members, I'd typically handle it in house (we've designed tartans for many different individuals and groups before), but I appreciate the offer. If you do end up designing a tartan (or would like assistance designing one) and / or need a company to have the cloth woven and kilts made, let me know. We'd be happy to help the project along.

[macwilkin]

Rocky, apologies for possibly "breaking your rice bowl" (to paraphrase the old Steve McQueen movie "The Sand Pebbles".)

Since I am no longer with NPS, and family/work make it difficult to take on such a project, I'm certainly an interested spectator who might throw in his "twa bob", but hardly interested in chairing any such project. Heck, I'd just be happy to write an article for the STM web site and the STA Newsletter about any NPS Ranger tartan.

T.

[Spinnaker]

Hello everyone,

I have been wanting to pursue the idea that the National Park Service should have its own tartan just as many other federal, state, and local government organizations do. Since John Muir, the father of the park service was born in Scotland it only seems fitting and long overdue. I think it should be a variation of the Muir clan tartan. California has already beaten the park service to getting this done but it is better late than never. I know there will be some push back from the upper levels of the NPS but that should not stop anything that might be a good idea. What do you folks think? Any other park service people out there that would support the idea? Anyone who could help design the tartan?

I remember that Theodore Roosevelt was of Scotch-Irish decent, and if it wasn't for him and his friendship with John Muir, Muir's dreams might not have come true. I would suggest that a hybrid of the Clan Muir and the clan tartan behind Roosevelt's heritage be explored. But I am not sure on what clan(s) Roosevelt traces his heritage back to.

Matt

[RockyR]

Rocky, apologies for possibly "breaking your rice bowl" (to paraphrase the old Steve McQueen movie "The Sand Pebbles".)

Since I am no longer with NPS, and family/work make it difficult to take on such a project, I'm certainly an interested spectator who might throw in his "twa bob", but hardly interested in chairing any such project. Heck, I'd just be happy to write an article for the STM web site and the STA Newsletter about any NPS Ranger tartan.

T.

No problem... I've got lots of bowls. Some rice, some are other types of grain. Can't have all my eggs in one type of basket.