Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
...the Orkney Islands and their inhabitants...it's not all ruined crofts and tumble-down buildings...far from it, and you will find that many Orcadians are well travelled and are very well informed.
This very much resonates with myself, being from a town of 900 people in isolated rural Appalachia, about which there are so many stereotypes. Yes there are centenarians who have never been more than 20 miles from where they were born, but there are also widely travelled people and highly educated people. My own family were known locally as teachers, generations of people who got university degrees and returned home to raise the local level of education.
In any case, to piggyback on Peter's photo, here's one I put together showing four current colour-schemes in wide production.
At a local Games I might see a couple dozen people wearing kilts in House of Edgar's "muted range". (Sorry I couldn't find a "muted" image of the same tartan.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 29th April 25 at 09:07 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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