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Post by Thomas Cameron on Jul 6, 2006 16:41:41 GMT -6
Ceallaighdhu,
Thank you for getting in touch. I have forwarded your request directly to the Rocky Mountain Regional President, and have sent you a e-mail with additional infomation (outside of the Message Center). I hope that your visit to Achnacarry was a wonderful, memorable occasion, and that the Lochaber weather was ideal!
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Post by ceallaighdhu on Jul 6, 2006 23:42:54 GMT -6
It rained but it was a good Scottish rain...mostly falling straight down. LOL By the time we actually got there it had stopped, though. Achnacarry was beautiful and the Lochiel was more than a pleasant suprise. He was so nice and so down to Earth. I have a great picture of him with my daughter beside the piano.
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Post by Chambers31 on Jul 30, 2006 13:48:20 GMT -6
I always migrate to the clan tents. I met some lovely ladies from the Michigan/Illinois branch, while the Alma Games. I have membership with the michigan/ohio branch. So of course I signed in at the tent and chatted for a bit, my dad got a Sons of the hounds t-shirt and I got a Lochbar Lass one. The other day I received the Michigan/Illinios newletter welcoming me as a new member there as well, and I thought HOW FUN is this. I sooo enjoy whenever someone asks me what my family heritage is and I can tell them.
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Post by Ken on Jan 2, 2007 23:48:13 GMT -6
If anyone knows of some Cameron clansmen in Wisconsin, please let me know. The only Cameron clansmen I know of are my family... Can get rather lonely, hehehe...
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Post by gaelgal on Jan 8, 2007 23:16:04 GMT -6
Ken, depends on where in Wisconsin you are located. Go to the main page of the Clan Cameron website, and click on North America... then click on"contact branches" (http://www.clan-cameron.org/n-america/branches.html) The branches and which states they represent are listed there... and to the left is the name of the branch that is the contact. Find which Wisconsin area is yours, then click on the contact to the left. Let me know if you don't hear back from someone! You can send me a personal message from this message board. Happy hunting!
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Post by Ken on Jan 10, 2007 9:04:02 GMT -6
Ken, depends on where in Wisconsin you are located. Go to the main page of the Clan Cameron website, and click on North America... then click on"contact branches" (http://www.clan-cameron.org/n-america/branches.html) The branches and which states they represent are listed there... and to the left is the name of the branch that is the contact. Find which Wisconsin area is yours, then click on the contact to the left. Let me know if you don't hear back from someone! You can send me a personal message from this message board. Happy hunting! Oh ok, I'll have to check it out. I'm affiliated with the Lake Michigan Branch, and I know we'll have a Highland Games in Milwaukee this summer... So who knows I may meet some clansmen/women in WI...
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Post by gaelgal on Jan 25, 2007 20:30:07 GMT -6
Anyone with ideas for getting (and keeping) new members at the games this coming year? Conserving our heritage means we have to pass it on ~ and I don't think that is limited to the games fields.
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Post by Heather Willis on Jan 25, 2007 23:56:42 GMT -6
I agree with you there Anna
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Post by ianjonefan on Jan 30, 2007 20:39:15 GMT -6
Heather, I live in Nebraska where the Scots in general are a minority. I've been wearing a kilt since I got my first one in 1976 when I joined the Scottish Society of Nebraska. I knew that there were Cameron Societies in the U. S. but didn't know how to contact them . This was before computers became popular. It was a highland game listing that led me to Albuquerque New Mexico where I joined the Clan Cameron Society in 1994. Personally I find that if I wear my kilt just to go to the mall, grocery stores, Memorial Day, 4th of July, cultural, and ethnic festivals, I find that I meet many people who claim Scottish decent. I even wore my kilt on the plane when I went to the games in Albuequerque. So this my idea I don't know if it will work for you , or not, The next time you attend a church service wear your formal Clan Cameron attire and the men in their formal kilts I'll just bet that people will ask you what clan you belong to ( it happens to me a few times) also when you're dining out (not fast food) you might not get any Camerons, but there's a very strong possability that you'll run into other Scots and you can help spread the word to those that are interested in the Scottish culture. Also check the schools to see if you could give a program about Scotland, or Clan Cameron. You could also maybe talk about SWcots in American History. A few examples john Paul Jones. Daniel Boone , Davy Crockett ,J.E. B. Stuart & etc.I hope some of these ideas will be of help to you ianjonefan@ yahoo.com Jon C. Evans
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Post by ianjonefan on Mar 17, 2008 20:37:19 GMT -6
Here's somerhing else, there are songs many Americans would consider the songs American without realizing that they're Scottish in orgin. I've mentioned :HAIL TO THE CHIEF:, but how many know that: SKIP TO MY LOO: is Scottish? This was according to the information I found in a old song book. ianjonefan(Jon)
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Post by ianjonefan on Mar 20, 2008 14:14:29 GMT -6
All ye braw lads just go ahead and wear yer kilt!!! , just for the heck of it. The lassies will thank ye for doing so. I myself wear the kilt every chance I get when the weather is warm. If your place of work has Causual Fridays, wear it to work. There are probably other ideas you can think of . Such as going shopping, going on vacation, & etc. ianjonefan(Jon)
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Post by shan on Apr 4, 2008 15:57:42 GMT -6
Hello All
I can't believe that it has taken me so long to find this thread. Although my pet topic is battlefields, I am actually an ethnologist and folklorist, and am very interested in how we conserve our heritage. I think there are some fantastic ideas here, especially the wearing of the kilt and I think the idea of volunteering in schools and passing the stories on to the next generation is especially important. I had the opportunity to work with school groups in Fort William and it was just so fantastic teaching such enthusiastic kids about tradition. There has been some mention of Arts and how it could be done. I don't know how much help this is, but the village of Prestonpans, near Edinburgh and site of a famous Jacobite victory, has used murals to connect past and present. The murals feature elements from the village's past such as industries, and for more recent history the artists have actually painted the images of people's ancestors. As well as making what is quite a socially deprived area more "attractive" to visitors, it has resulted in the local folk having more pride in their home and themselves. One other point that I would like to make is about the nature of tradition. it has been suggested that there is a need for something tangible, physical, that stories somehow degenerate through retelling. Oral tradition is actually incredibly consistent in the telling of tales, there are structures to follow and motifs that are used. It should be remembered that the clan bardic tradition is oral tradition. A great premium was/is placed on memory, that is why bards held such high status. I can give you an example of the consistency of oral tradition from America! The history of the Battle of Little Bighorn was based on the contemporary written accounts of army officers. When archaeologists had the opportunity to study the battlefield in the 1980s, they found that the archaeological evidence was actually more in accord with the oral tradition of the Native Americans. Please do not try to set tradition in stone. Tradition needs to evolve and change with the times, otherwise it will eventually lose its relevance and die.
Yours aye Shan
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Post by ianjonefan on Apr 4, 2008 19:21:01 GMT -6
:SHAN: You are :SO RIGHT!!!:, it's been said over, & over those who never learn from the past are doomed to make the same mistakes in the future. If you take the time to study the past long and hard enough, many times they'll have answers for us now inthe future. Jon
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Post by ianjonefan on Apr 4, 2008 19:51:54 GMT -6
Shan, I'm also a history buff. My favorite finds are about pipers in U. S. History. Here are some examples. There was a piper at the :BATTLE OF THE ALAMOO , during the AMERICAN WAR AGAINST THE NORTH 7 SOUTH , there was a Scotttish Volunteer Regiment NEW YORK QUEEN'S OWN HIGHLANDERS Co. A, : When General Douglas MacAuthur had a piper with him while he was taking the Philipines back from the Japanese. Finaly as recently as the First Gulf War a tank comamder play a tape of bagpipe music next to his speaker system on his tank and according to legend 10,000 Iraquis is supposed to have upped & quit and followed the tank back to its base I know it souunds farfetched, but like I said it's supposed to be only a battlefield legend. It could be true , because strange and unusual things do happen in the heat of battle that can't be explained. Jon
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Post by ianjonefan on Apr 4, 2008 19:56:33 GMT -6
Oops that should be Alamo , not Alamoo
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Post by ianjonefan on Apr 17, 2008 20:20:15 GMT -6
I know more about the Cameron side of my family from listening to my grandfather(her father) , her aunt(my great-aunt) and soe of the letters my grandfather , and great-aunt received from their aunts in Scotland , On the Sherman side of the family (my grandmothe) allI know is that General Sherman is supposed to be an uncle of hers. On my father's side of the family , the Calverts , & the Evans , is that before my father died he told me that an uncle of his on the Calvert side of the family found out that we were related to Lord Baltimore a.k.a. Lord Calvert through a bastered son of one of his nephews . Besides that , his uncle found out there were a few black sheep in the family. So his uncle burned the whole thing. When he asked his uncle if he could read it, his uncle told him no , but somehow , or another he was able to read the report before it was destroyed. Of the Evans side of the family I have no clue to who my ancestors were. So in a way 2/3rds of my heritage is lost. So to those who care about their heritage , interview as many of your family as you can. Fathers , mothers, grandparents , both sides, aunts , uncles , cousins. Just one of them could have that important piece of information you're looking for. Also ask for photos with the names of the person in the photo , letters, and finaly record all information on tape , CD , or DVD.
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Post by gaelgal on May 25, 2008 21:35:31 GMT -6
Another couple of ways to learn more about Clan Cameron... join a clan, become an active participant in the clan's activities, become an officer for your clan, read... read... read... tell... Newsletters and the Clan Cameron website you are writing on have more information than you can shake a stick at! Go read about us! And then tell! We have a Cameron, a Wild Highlander Cameron, who lives in Florida and travels to the games. Not so much now as in his past, but now his son is carrying on the tradition. Anyway, they are armourers and so they do demonstrations and tell tales of how the weapons and kilts were used. There is never a small crowd standing round their display when they start spinning their yarns. I have learned much from listening and watching, and much from browsing Scottish stuff online. And then I share the stories and the things I have learned whenever an interested person gives me the slightest reason to start talking...
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Post by ianjonefan on Jun 21, 2008 13:26:50 GMT -6
Sometimes when people see me in my kilt they'll ask what clan do I belong to , then if they reply that they're a Clark , Taylor , or another Sept of Clan Cameron , I tell them they too are a part of Clan Cameron . Nothing so far came out of these discussions , but I'm hoping evently some of thse people I've talked to would become members .
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