Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
OK lets look forward and hope some lessons have been learned and I hope this time around those lessons will be put to good use. PLEASE!
Indeed! As someone who was unable to attend last year's event, this thread has been an eye opener! 
I realize that these Homecoming event(s) are/were geared more towards tourism than for the locals (at least that's how I view it), I sincerely hope the organizers do indeed do a better job of including the local population in the event.
Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
At a Scottish Highland games there might be a clan tent of the local Clan. There is not a whole row of different Clan tents and there is no parade of Clans. The Clan thing is very much there, but lower than low key. For clan members visiting another clan's patch for a games we are very much the visitors. We are welcome but......
Honestly we don't do clan associations we don't need to, we are already there!
Of course North America being a land of immigrants we don't have the luxury of being there already, thus the need/desire for the Clan Associations & Scottish Societies 
Originally Posted by
cessna152towser
You would need to go round lots of different games all over Scotland through the season to see all the different clans
Ahhh...how I wish I had the time & the $$$$ to run around Scotland visiting the different games etc, & rounding up local support 
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