Clan Gathering - 1977

**Grizzly** · 30th July 12, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by creagdhubh

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Wonderful images, Chas! Thank you for sharing them. It is nice to see that many Clan Chattan clans attended this particular gathering, to include the Macphersons.

Best wishes,

Curses!!! No Cameron banner? No doubt we were waylaid by the Chattan Confederation and those meddling MacPhersons.!!!!!!!!

**Grizzly** · 30th July 12, 02:02 PM

Great images Chas. I think we may see these again in future posts.

**David Thorpe** · 30th July 12, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

Curses!!! No Cameron banner? No doubt we were waylaid by the Chattan Confederation and those meddling MacPhersons.!!!!!!!!

Ouch! That may leave a mark.

**Grizzly** · 30th July 12, 02:15 PM

I don't think so. My friend Kyle will know that it is all in jest. Besides he wll no doubt cut me down with a witty retort which I will then have to spend many an hour trying to think up a reply.

**creagdhubh** · 31st July 12, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

I don't think so. My friend Kyle will know that it is all in jest. Besides he wll no doubt cut me down with a witty retort which I will then have to spend many an hour trying to think up a reply.

No jesting, I assure you! Besides a bit of a skirmish at the Battle of Invernahavon near present day Glentruim in Badenoch, the Macphersons and Camerons have been pretty good mates!

Cheers,

**ThistleDown** · 30th July 12, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

Curses!!! No Cameron banner? No doubt we were waylaid by the Chattan Confederation and those meddling MacPhersons.!!!!!!!!

Yes, I don't know why it wasn't in the list. I'm fairly certain Lochiel was in Edinburgh for the opening and there was a superb party at Achnacarry a week or two later. I have somewhere in the house an issue of the Oban Times with a page one photo of Lochiel, Lady Cameron, my wife and I taken that day. I'll find it and post it. Edit:

wife says different house, I'm in Vancouver and the page is in the house in Scotland. Posting will have to be another time. (different wife, too, but that's not for here)

Memory of injustices is long, Simon, often on both sides, but in that same 1977 Lochiel and The Mackintosh agreed that their friendship was sound and that all issues of the past could comfortably be left there. Stir no more.

**ThistleDown** · 30th July 12, 09:19 PM

Super thread, Chas. The 1977 Gathering began a new era for those of us in Highland Scotland. That year we began to realise the size of the Scots diaspora in a very real and different way. The "clans" we knew as family relationships had become something quite different overseas. There they had taken on a sort of corporate identity. It was a bit confusing for us in the lead-up to that Gathering, but many of the chiefs and leading folk agreed to give it a go and contributed.

Individually, it turned out to be a hugely costly agreement. A great success from a tourism point of view with millions coming into the country and being dispersed within the country. An even greater success if one looks at the rapid spread of interest in succeeding years (and increasingly in Highland dress by those not thought of as 'of' the culture).

But those who footed the outside-commercial-Edinburgh bill at home were not re-imbursed in any way -- and their joint expenditure was enormous. There's more to the story, of course.

**Grizzly** · 30th July 12, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by ThistleDown

Memory of injustices is long, Simon, often on both sides, but in that same 1977 Lochiel and The Mackintosh agreed that their friendship was sound and that all issues of the past could comfortably be left there. Stir no more.

Rex I certainly don't wish to stir anything nor was it my intention to do so. I was merely making a point about the Camerons being absent in what I thought was a light hearted manner. I sincerely apologise if I have caused any offence whatsoever.

**ThistleDown** · 30th July 12, 11:21 PM

No worries, Simon. There's just this home-grown saying about old porridge -- stir no more -- that I dropped in here and I didn't mean to cause you concern. Old issues in the Highlands are kept alive by those who have been long away from these shores and not by those who remained behind. The Macphersons are a clan within the Clanchattan super-clan and the Clanchattan's old issues with the Camerons (and vice versa) were put to rest long, long ago.

**creagdhubh** · 31st July 12, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by ThistleDown

No worries, Simon. There's just this home-grown saying about old porridge -- stir no more -- that I dropped in here and I didn't mean to cause you concern. Old issues in the Highlands are kept alive by those who have been long away from these shores and not by those who remained behind. The Macphersons are a clan within the Clanchattan super-clan and the Clanchattan's old issues with the Camerons (and vice versa) were put to rest long, long ago.

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