will it work?

[GMan]

I know of a family in Jenks that is very much into their Celtic roots. Do not give up it will come.

[Alaskan Kilted Guy]

I didn't research too hard, but here are a few places to check out for you....hope it helps. I spent a week in Tulsa last spring, and really found it to be uh..... nevermind, I was always taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all..... Good luck!!

http://www.tulsascottishgames.org/

http://www.tulsascots.com/alba/

http://www.andersonpipeband.com/

[McMurdo]

It should work, but my first question is why wait, how cold is it there? I'm still kilting everyday, and I am in Canada, where it does get cold. I say go for it strap on your kilt and get out there.

[sharpdressedscot]

You're bound to find someone, it's not like the Scots stayed at one place in the US.

[RossCroft]

I didn't research too hard, but here are a few places to check out for you....hope it helps. I spent a week in Tulsa last spring, and really found it to be uh..... nevermind, I was always taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all..... Good luck!!

http://www.tulsascottishgames.org/

http://www.tulsascots.com/alba/

http://www.andersonpipeband.com/

i've already checked out these web sites (went to the sept scottish festival. it looks big on the web site, but really very small). the problem is few events and none really close. i'm trying to create more, not just make do with what is. my wife and i go in historically correct attire from 400 years ago, as close as possible anyway. we are trying to arouse interest in what the scottish culture is and how it got that way.

It should work, but my first question is why wait, how cold is it there? I'm still kilting everyday, and I am in Canada, where it does get cold. I say go for it strap on your kilt and get out there.

it's not the cold really. it's that there would be no people at the park. rain, snow and cold means they don't stop there. we want them to stop and visit. i tell stories with my best scottish and play a chanter very badly. if no one is stopping there's nothing to do and no stories to tell.

thanks for all the responses. some good ideas here. when we finally get er done i'll try to post pictures.

[RossCroft]

I know of a family in Jenks that is very much into their Celtic roots. Do not give up it will come.

if you talk to them, send them my email and contact information. i'd love to get to know more folks.

[Mark Keeney]

Don't make a big deal about it. Wear your kilt around town doing normal stuff just like any other piece of clothing (not in your face style). Wear it like it is nothing out of the ordinary and confidently. The kilt will draw the interested to you. Wear it often the more they see you wearing one the less likely they will think you are just going to an event. Have business cards ready if someone inquires about the kilt.

[McMurdo]

it's not the cold really. it's that there would be no people at the park. rain, snow and cold means they don't stop there. we want them to stop and visit. i tell stories with my best scottish and play a chanter very badly. if no one is stopping there's nothing to do and no stories to tell.

thanks for all the responses. some good ideas here. when we finally get er done i'll try to post pictures.

That explains it, but in the mean time wear it out anyway, you never know. I find just me walking into the coffee shop in the morning can strike up a conversation. It seems everywhere I go people have to tell me about their heritage, these encounters have most times been the highlight of my day.

A few weeks ago I was at the CN Tower in my kilt, on the sky pod the worlds highest man made observation deck, met a man and woman from Scotland, the man was from Coatbridge, the same small town where my Mom was born.

[Rex_Tremende]

While I appreciate your desire to flock with birds of a feather, somehow I don't think you're hitting the right notes, here. I'm confused about your objective. Is it to form the Talequah Scottish Society or to conjure up a rabble? If it is the former, then your plan might work better if you were doing it as advertising for, say, a St. Andrews Society event, and you are the charter (and so far, only) members of the club.

If it is the latter, then I have to say your approach sounds almost - and forgive me here, because I cannot think of a less provocative word - fetishistic. For as many people as there are in this area where I live who wear kilts on a regular basis, I have to say that whenever I strap one on and go about my business, I expect that I will be the only one anyone, including myself, will see in a kilt that day. If someone witnesses me being myself and gets the idea that he, too, would like to wear a kilt, it will not be because I have been out proselytizing. I find a greater comfort in knowing my friends can give a little shrug and accept me in my own unique plumage.

Regards,
Rex.

[RossCroft]

when i first started wearing a kilt it was because my daughter wanted kilts worn by all men at her wedding. my wife and i began going to scottish games as a way to do things together outside the home. i got involved with historical reenacting through a friend and my wife and i both enjoyed it immensely. we would go to a dozen or so events a year. i'm from oklahoma, so when the last child graduated from high school we sold our house and i got to come home.

we still want to do things together outside the home and the number of games here are very limited, so i'm trying to find ways to increase our options. you may all be right in that i may be going about it the wrong way. and i'm not terribly interested in a "rabble". they tend to be sources of the type of attention i'd rather not have. i like your suggestion of doing this as a way to advertise a scottish event. if we do it for a couple of weekends before an event it would certainly draw local attention to that event, and that doesn't exist at all now so it would be a plus.

your suggestions are appreciated and food for thought.