Kilted Fridays Adventures

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Not Friday, but Saturday I took my other half and one of her daughters to a Sons of the American Revolution ceremony celebrating
the placement of an SAR marker at the grave of MH's gggg-grandfather, John W. Colley, in a family cemetery lost in the woods in a
very rural area in Wilkes County, Georgia, which predates the Revolution. In conversation about proper dress with the president,
I said I was asking because I no longer have slacks as I am usually in a kilt; his immediate reply was that a kilt would be great.
Wore Rocky's semi traditional clergy tartan. One of the color guard, dressed in Colonial Army uniform, came over to show me a
photo of him in a kilt at another event. Several folk commented that they loved seeing me there in it. Several started genealogy
conversations, and one guy said I must be a lot braver than he is (he is a fireman in Washington, the county seat, population
about 5,000). Met several folk descended from the honoree, so cousins of MH, but who are also third cousins of mine through
Asa Duggan, a Baptist minister and educator through much of the 19th century. My family line has been gone from Wilkes County
for more than two hundred years, so a pleasant surprise.