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20th February 08, 02:02 PM
#1
The Browns Are Here!
I am told that it's proper XMark etiquette to announce your arrival as a Newbie to the community. I'm here!
For several years, I have been telling the family about our family's Scottish heritage. Everyone thought it was marginally interesting until a bunch of them attended the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games last year. One of my uncles saw a Brown tartan and started asking a lot of questions. Someone at a tent passed him a Clan Brown booklet and off they went. Now we have 9 kilts on order from Scottland, 20 of us on the way to Loch Norman in April and 40 of us going to the GM Highland games in July. Everyone is looking forward to setting up the clan compound, cooking some meat on the fire and partaking in the spirits with some good music. We are a hospitible bunch and I hope to see you all there.
WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE BROWNS?!
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
" From The Declaration Of Arbroath April 6, 1320
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20th February 08, 02:06 PM
#2
I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…
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20th February 08, 02:07 PM
#3
 from Chicago. I've heard that Grandfather Mountain is a great experience. My brother took three of his kids there last year and they enjoyed themselves tremendously. We have ancestors in at least 78 clans that I've identified in my genealogy work, but we primarily identify with Gordon and Campbell. My brother is Boss H.O.G for Georgia (that's Convenor of the House of Gordon for Georgia)
Animo non astutia
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20th February 08, 02:15 PM
#4
One of my earliest childhood memories of kilts was my Uncle Donald Brown who wore his often.
from NH - Live, Freeze, and Die
Bob
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20th February 08, 02:17 PM
#5
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20th February 08, 02:20 PM
#6
I think I welcomed you earlier but it never hurts let someone know they are Welcome in a new place. 
I look forward to meeting you at some of the local games.
Nelson
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives"
Braveheart
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20th February 08, 02:32 PM
#7
from South Wales UK! 
Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.
Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
(Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany forever - united in the Kilts!)
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20th February 08, 02:40 PM
#8
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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20th February 08, 02:48 PM
#9
I, too, welcome you a second time!
With a rabble like you have this will be an excellent resource!
Kilted Ranger and proud member of Clan Donald, USA
Happy patron of Jack of the Wood Celtic Pub in beautiful, walkable, and very kilt-friendly downtown Asheville, NC.
BEER CITY USA, BABY! Soon to be home of Sierra Nevada AND New Belgium breweries!
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20th February 08, 02:49 PM
#10
Welcome Broons. Just a wee point, Scotland only has the one "t" but forgive me if it's perhaps a trade name or something.
Member of the National Trust For Scotland 2010
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