Highbanks Gathering, July, New York

[Ugly Bear]

Anyone up for the Highbanks Gathering? There're piping/drumming competitions (band & individual), Scottish games, entertainment, vendors, food and all kinds of stuff. Here's a link:

http://www.feadanor.org/highbanks

The date is Saturday, 9 July 2005 (not 2004, as the site says). It's in Letchworth State Park near Mt. Morris. I'll be going (it's nearby) and wouldn't mind meeting someone while there.

[beerbecue]

If my job search comes through, I should be in that area by then.

My wife is from the Finger Lakes region, and I am applying for teaching positions all across western and northern New York.

I think her 20 year class reunion is around that time too..... Will have to check....

[beerbecue]

I wanted to bump this up since it is getting closer.

Looks like not only will I be going to the Highbanks Gathering, I will be living in New York!!!

Ugly Bear, you still going?? I know there are quite a few folks here from the Finger Lakes/Central NY area, we should try and all get together....

[Woodsheal]

Would love to meet you guys there, but I'll be at my wife's college class reunion up in Potsdam that weekend....
Will probably see you in Cortland in August, and don't forget Kilt Nights beginning in September in Binghamton (details later!)....

[beerbecue]

I will be going to a class reunion that night... but will be able to spend some time at the games....

I will be using it as an opportunity to meet some of the pipe bands in the area.... and hopefully buy some equipment!!

Looking forward to kilt nights!!

[Bob C.]

Don't forget the Central New York games in Liverpool (Syracuse suburb) on Aug. 13. I'll be missing it this year, but it's an easy trip from Binghamton and anywhere in the Finger Lakes.

I'd like to hit the one at Letchworth Park, but it won't be this year. Can't wait to hear about it from you guys.

[beerbecue]

Follow-Up....


Went to Letchworth - roads in terrible shape..... Got to the Games, could hear the pipes as we drove up... Very few vendors, only a couple of Clan tents... Was more of a piping contest event than a Highland event - there were no games to speak of that I could tell. The only major vendor was 'The British Shop' out of Buffalo.

I met up with the Syracuse Pipe Band, had some decent grub.... and that was about it...

Not a very big event, but everyone was friendly and the piping was fun....
Got to show off my kilt, though, and that was a good feeling....

[Bob C.]

The only major vendor was 'The British Shop' out of Buffalo.

I stopped in that place while traveling to Niagara Falls for a convention last month.

The stock in the store was kind of thin, because they took most of their stuff to games, somewhere. :-D

I did get some kilt hose and flashes, though.

[Ugly Bear]

Ugly Bear, you still going?? I know there are quite a few folks here from the Finger Lakes/Central NY area, we should try and all get together....

Whoops, sorry I missed this post. As it turns out, I missed the Highbanks this year; couldn't get anyone else interested, so I made other plans.

That weekend I wound up in Leavenworth, WA and walked around Little Bavaria kilted. At one point I went into a downstairs cheese shop, and a customer said that he briefly mistook me for his son.

"Is your son around?" I asked.

"No," he replied, "but with the boots and the kilt and the way you were stomping downstairs, you looked just like him."

I thought for a moment. "He lives in Seattle, right?"

"Yeah. Do you know him?"

I didn't; I just guessed that his son had a Utilikilt or two.

More good news: the freuleine working the cheese counter unwrapped a very expensive cheese fermented with Guinness and gave me a sample. Would she have bothered if I were trousered? I doubt it.

[sav]

More good news: the freuleine working the cheese counter unwrapped a very expensive cheese fermented with Guinness and gave me a sample. Would she have bothered if I were trousered? I doubt it.

There are many perks to being kilted....