The Bethabara Highland Games (NC) was held on May 4, 2019.\u00a0 Overcast skies and 80 degree was the weather of the day. \u00a0\u00a0There were eighteen clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Russ and Marcia Harper hosted the Clan Wallace tent. \u00a0Also on tent row was, \u201cSAMS\u201d the Scottish American Military Society, Council of Scottish Clans and Society, and the Forsyth County Genealogical Society.<\/p>\n
These games are held at Historic Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. \u00a0The Highland Games at Historic Bethabara Park are held to pay respect to the heritage of the early Scots and Scots-Irish pioneers who helped and guided the Moravians in their settlement of the Wachovia tract.\u00a0 This game is free and open for the enjoyment of the public.<\/p>\n
The entertainment included the Jamestown Pipes and Drum and North Carolina State Pipeband.\u00a0 The Games included heavy athletics, Children\u2019s Highland games competition, Children\u2019s Colonial Games and storytelling, Border Collie Demonstration.\u00a0 The vendors at the games included\u00a0 Near and Far Scottish,\u00a0 Scottish Leather, Kelpie Pottery, Carolina Celt, and \u00a0Lumpy\u2019s Ice Cream.<\/p>\n
Thanks to all that came out and enjoyed the day with us.<\/p>\n
Contributed By Marcia Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bethabara Highland Games (NC) was held on May 4, 2019.\u00a0 Overcast skies and 80 degree was the weather of the day. \u00a0\u00a0There were eighteen clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Russ and Marcia Harper hosted the Clan Wallace tent. \u00a0Also on tent row was, \u201cSAMS\u201d the Scottish American Military Society, Council … Continue reading 19th Annual Bethabara Highland Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[99,19,20,32],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-games","tag-annual-bethabara-highland-games","tag-clan-games","tag-highland-games","tag-scottish-games","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}