Stone Mountain GA 2010

Holding court with John Dahl.
We had a long line of members for the Parade of Tartans. I only made it half way round this year and ducked out the back gate!
Family of Nan Hunter who was Sharon's shortbread mentor. Nan passed away earlier this year. Her granddaughter, second from right, has taken over the shortbread tradition.
Hawk Talk.


John Colquhoun who taught school in Jonesboro.
The Hagar ring.
Clan Davidson was next to us again this year.



Rhonda who let us know about The Kandahar Reel.

Jim Kilpatrick, Julia Grant-Adams, Colin Grant-Adams, and myself.

Stone Mountain Dinner

Several years ago (10-15?) we had a dinner with Clan Davidson on the Saturday night of the Stone Mountain Games (GA). In this picture left to right Harry Avery of Alexandria, VA; Bernice Calhoun; Tom Hodges; Judge Marcus Calhoun (Bernice's husband, they lived in Thomasville, GA); Harry's brother Dick Avery of Dallas, TX; Margaret Cohoon. This was held at the Doubletree Hotel near I-285 & Hwy 400. Harry, Bernice, and Marcus have all passed on now. We sponsor a Grade II piping trophy for Marcus and Bernice at the upcoming Stone Mountain games, held every 3rd weekend of October.

If you plan to attend the Stone Mountain (GA) games

Holiday Inn sent us a promotional sheet.

These games are held every 3rd weekend of October. We're hoping the weather is different this year (it's usually beautiful). Last year it was wet and about 60 degrees for a high. Even though "wet" last year, these games have never been "rained out".

The Tent This Year Stone Mountain 2008

Not too many new things at the tent, but some of it may be arranged differently.

Alice Calhoun's movie playing. I explained how I set this up in the post about the Savannah Games held in the spring.

One thing I've been trying is to gather to one spot all the pictures and paraphernalia about one subject. In addition to the pictures for Rossdhu there's the Loch Lomond shortbread tin, the Old Rossdhu t shirt for sale, and a copy of Executive Golfer with the Manor/Clubhouse on the front.

I've taken some of the individual pictures of Sir Iain Colquhoun and tried to put them in one big frame. At the bottom of this frame is a copy of "Highland Gatherings" visitors can pick up and look through plus two volumes of "Sir Iain in The Scotsman newspaper."

The copy of "Highland Gatherings" we have out is actually a photocopy of the 1927 book. Across from the title page is a photo of a kilted King George V.

A few years ago The Scotsman offered a digital archive of their newspaper going back to 1817.

I found about 100 pages from articles on Sir Iain in The Scotsman. The first mention I found of him was in 1910 when his father Sir Alan died. Sir Iain's name is misspelled in the 3rd paragraph from the bottom on the page above.

The note written to Sir Iain above was from King George VI (the current Queen's father). George VI had just ascended to the throne in 1936 after his older brother's abdication. He is the second eldest son of George V (pictured above in "Highland Gatherings").

Mostly Sean Well's family (Rachel belongs to our presidents son).

Dr. Liz used to work with Sharon when she was invited out to the festival one year. Dr. Liz liked it so well she volunteered for the Clan MacMedic. She normally doesn't handle emergency room situations but she's had several experiences at the games, including restarting another lady's heart two years ago. Dr. Liz has no Scottish affiliations, but we're proud to adopt her as a Colquhoun. She wears our tartan and marches with us in the Parade on Sunday.

Mike Cahoon "came home" to Stone Mountain to visit this year. Mike sets up tents for us in the Northwest now. He's with Mickey Kennedy.

Tom Hewett came by to get his new Heritage Of Scotland kilt christened.

We don't know who these mothers were, but we liked their clothing and grabbed them to pose as they were walking by.

Beth Gay of Beth's Newfangled Family Tree and Richard Halliley (past president of Clan Davidson). Beth makes the rounds to each clan tent with a "little red wagon" full of goodies. Richard, Jane (Kirkpatrick), and son James are often our "roomates" where ever we're staying for the games as they were this weekend.

On the front of Beth's wagon.

Guests At Stone Mountain Highland Games 2008

My friends know that I really don't like to have my picture taken, at least my wife is well aware of this. I guess I was having such a good time at the Stone Mountain Games I forgot myself and posed a few times. Honored Guest this year was Sir Malcolm MacGregor. I weaseled my way into a picture with him with the help of "The Cowboy Colquhoun" Ken Winkler who works with the visiting bands.

Another guest was Billy Kennedy whom I've met several times before. Billy has written several books about the Scot-Irish influence on the Southeastern US.
His latest book is # 10 in a series. This one highlights Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and David Crockett.


Billy is also the editor of "The Ulster-Scot" newspaper which he graciously sends several copies to us to pass out at the tent. There's hardly an event we go to where we don't meet someone whose ancestry is Irish and they love to get a copy of this paper. All of the John C. Calhoun descendants have an interest in this since Patrick immigrated from Ireland.
Clan MacGregor's secretary also attended. Guy McGregor is a County Councilor and Cabinet Member in Suffolk. He and his lovely wife were very entertaining, and we enjoyed meeting them very much.