The Scottish Tartans Museum is
represented at many Scottish festivals and Highland Games in the southeastern
US. Typically, museum staff and volunteers will travel with name reference
books, tartan swatches, and our computer database to set up a tent and help the
many games visitors answer the question, "What's my tartan?" Museum
representatives also answer many other questions on Highland Dress and Scottish
culture and history.
Once a year, at the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Georgia, the museum also
brings much of its gift shop inventory to set up a large tent where we sell
many imported tartan and related gifts, as a fund raiser for our museum.
The pictures below are from the 2004 Stone Mountain Highland Games, and were
taken by Bisell McWilliams III, member of the Friends of the Scottish Tartans
Museum.
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Our gift shop tent at the Stone Mountain
Games |
Museum staff Ronan MacGregor (left) and
Matthew Newsome (right) |
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Joannie Newsome giving samples of Scottish
foods |
Ryan Ross, member of the Friends of the
Museum, assists people in finding their tartan |
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Kilt maker and Kilt Historian Bob Martin
speaking with Alistair Buchan of Lochcarron (left). |
Museum curator Matt Newsome with son,
Josiah |
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Curator Matt Newsome examining the hard
tartan cloth of the kilt worn by James Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie. |
Matt Newsome speaking with Peter Wilson of
Great Scot, International (center), and Hugh Tarcai. |
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Museum volunteers help people look up
their tartans. |
Museum trustee and SMHG official Gerald
Larkey wearing the Georgia tartan. |
