Fair Hill Scottish Games at the Colonial Highland Gathering in Fair Hill, MD

[Nile]

The athletes were superb and the athletic events were also sanctioned.

I wanted to share this sequence of the winning tabor throw and one of the most perfect I have ever seen.



Nile

[ASinclair]

The athletes were superb and the athletic events were also sanctioned.

I wanted to share this sequence of the winning tabor throw and one of the most perfect I have ever seen.



Nile

The caber toss is my favorite Scottish Heavy Althletics event. Thanks Nile.

[mookien]

Nile: Looks like a good venue for the games. I would like to have listened to the pipe bands. Thanks for posting the pics. Nice caber toss sequence.

John

[pn1scott]

Wanted to get there, but had to work....but will attend next year....

[tulloch]

Nice photos. Cool being able to look at them and recognize someone in them from so far away. The drum instructor from Scotia Glenville is a friend of mine and was responsible for my daughter's and my going to Scotland last summer. It is indeed a small world, this world of kilts, and smaller is the subset of piping and drumming!

[O'Callaghan]

I suppose you could have a Scottish Games anywhere, even in a place with an Irish name. The mention of Fair Hill brings to mind a location in Cork, Ireland. Seems a pity it's not a celtic event, rather than a Scottish one (ducks flames, LOL!). I didn't know we had a Fair Hill here in Maryland, so I assume it's in some other part of the state far from me? Curious now as to where it is?

There are a lot of people of Irish descent in the Baltimore, Maryland area (although I am from London and live in a different part of the state), and the original Baltimore is in Cork, so it seems that there's a high probability that Fair Hill, Maryland may be named after the one in Cork as well. The O'Callaghan branch of my family were from Cobh (pronounced as per its English spelling, Cove, aka Queenstown at one time), which is also in Cork.

[OC Richard]

Well Nile we probably saw each other a number of times during the day, but didn't know it.

Yes my first time attending. The setting is beautiful, amongst rolling farmland.

In the early morning the pipe band people setting up their various encampments. Interesting how close the Games are to people's homes



Solos were held on platforms here and there along the grass-covered race track. In the background you can see the grandstands from which the Pipe Band competition will be viewed, in the afternoon



Viewed from a different angle, showing the several solo platforms spread along the curving fence



An interesting sight was pipers scattered all over the green warming up their pipes



A young piper and an old hand having a chat



Also in the morning was Highland Dancing



These lads wearing interesting uniforms... one has got an award



Now time for the Massed Bands!

[ASinclair]

Nice pictures and report. Thanks Richard.