How Many Remote/Lone Kilters Out There

[Jack Daw]

In a huge metropolis like Houston, kilt night can be 50 miles way and still be in town. Such fun evenings can be difficult for me to attend because of this.

[Scotty-x]

In the suburbs of chicago...aurora,naperville I dont see anyone either. I sure would like more to wear kilts around here. It would convice my wife that it is OK to wear them.

[acstoon]

I live in a town of about 4000... mostly Germanic descent (lot of Amish & Mennonite). I've yet to see another kiltie here.
Nearest Irish pub is 30 minutes away. Which is frustrating, since this area was originally settled by Celtic peoples... Towns within 30 minutes with names like: Welsh Run, Caledonia, Greencastle, Scotland, McConnellsburg, etc... Go figure.
Kilt night? None yet, although I know of a couple roughly an hour away.

[McNulty]

Hey Ron, et al
There are three of us kilties out here on the Western Slope: Me, myself and I.( did you see that coming?). There are more resident sheep and beef cattle out here than people. This area is rural, ranching, and not very populated( unless you count the natural gas /oil field workers). I live in an extended community of about 2,500 spread out over 25-30 miles of I-70.

While hiking some of the trails and backcountry areas I run into Touristas ( affectionate name for folks from not around here who stop in and increase our retail tax base by buying all manner of hiking stuff) and they usually have good things to say about my kilts. Some say that they have kilt(s) at home and I encourage them to bring them along next time out this way.

The area is not devoid of "big city culture" and there are great concerts and community theater is really pretty good. I was at a play several weeks ago, and for some reason not in a good mood and was kilted. I guy came up to me during intermission and said, "So, is there a large Scottish community here in Glenwood?" to which I replied(remember that I was in a sorta bad mood) "I don't know....I'm Irish!" and started to turn away. He had such a crushed look on his face that I relented and talked to him both during the intermission and after the play for about an hour. He was visiting from Florida, has several kilts at home and said that he would bring his kilts with him next year as he was planning to return for skiing up at Aspen(Aspen is only 45 mins away from Glenwood Springs).

So, there aren't tooo many kilties out here, and the ranchers do not try to rope, and throw, and brand me because of the kilt. My summer flyfishing clients think that it is kinda "neat" to have a kilted guide. So even though we are about 3.5-4 hours west of Denver we don't miss the pollution/traffic/lack of kilties at all.
Nulty

[Hamish]

Ron, even I am pretty much 'out in the sticks' in spite of southern England being pretty much over-populated! The nearest kiltie to me, as far as I know, lives just over an hour's drive from here - and we meet up regularly at my home anyway without traipsing off to find a friendly pub! We go to one, where we are known for our kilts, in the next village to eat, but not just to drink since we prefer to do that at home.

A year or two back, I suggested to the Landlady (owner) of The Frankland Arms, where we eat, that she should try a regular Tartan theme night as a promotional gimmick - I thought it might also bring some 'closet' kilties out of their hideaways - but, she declined saying, "We do not hold themed events. We're not that sort of pub!". She is right - it's not - but I thought it worth a try!

In the days of "Tom's Café", three of us did manage to meet up at a pub some distance from here, but neither of the others was a 'local' and, in fact I had to put one of them up overnight as he had several hours drive to get home afterwards. We never tried that one again!

No, I'm afraid some of us were born to miss out on pub Kilts Nights - unless we are lucky enough to stay at The Ferintosh up there in Scotland!

Take care,
Ham.

[Riverkilt]

Aye McNulty,

For the last few years I've been lurking kilted just south of you around Ridgeway and Ouray on trips to Orvis Hot Springs.

Never had a negative kilt comment up there. And of course the folks at Orvis always are appreciative.



Here's the Miner's Memorial in Ouray. Has the name of a guy I used to work with in the Red Mountain Idarado mine in 1963.

Kilt is the Cameron Black and Red from House of Edgar old and rare collection. 13 ounce hand sewn by Kathy Lare.

Ron

[ncof300d]

I am very remote in the northwest corner of Ohio. I have yet to see another person in a kilt.

Two weeks ago I took the day off from work to for docent training at the Auburn Cord Duesenburg Automobile Museum in Auburn, IN were I work as a volunteer. I wore a kilt that day. It was the first time in a while. (Oh, the comfort.) After the training I was to meet a friend of mine at the court house square. My friend is very cool with me wearing a kilt. We were at the court house square talking and two different times people approached us and asked if there was a special event taking place. These people saw someone wearing a kilt on the court house square and thought that some event was going to take place. On the second approach my friend handled the questions. He told that person that I was 'going for the comfort'. You had to be there...it was a great moment.

[eighties]

Well there is a pipe band here in the Myrtle Beach area but aside from only one other guy two towns down from me (caught him in a Wal-Mart) I think I'm the only regular kiltie here. Rarely do I get negative comments, mostly a lot of smiles.

-80s

[elrond]

Hi Ron, I live in Savona, a little town (50.000 citizens) in Italy on the sea near the French border.
Before I started wearing the kilt no one here had ever seen a kilted man.
I don't know what is a kilt night, or better I know, but I've never partecipated because I can do a kilt night only alone... not other kilted men here! LOL!
When Robert (our "Ancienne Alliance" member) came in my town for a performance with a local band "the city" had the occasion to see two kilted man in just one time!
No problem!
I'll have an occasion to travel to find some forum friends and to hve a real kilt night as a real Burns night.

There are some friends that are becoming interested in the kilt... perhaps in few months I will be able to do a real kilt night with kilted friends here! !

[Jerry]

Well there is a pipe band here in the Myrtle Beach area but aside from only one other guy two towns down from me (caught him in a Wal-Mart) I think I'm the only regular kiltie here. Rarely do I get negative comments, mostly a lot of smiles.

-80s

I did spend 4 days and nights kilted in Myrtle Beach last January. Visited several restaurants and went to Medieval Times, Kilted, with mostly no comments at all. The hostesses at Medieval Times said the kilt looked great and I ran into several other tourists there who asked about the tartan and if I were a Scot.