{"id":698,"date":"2017-05-19T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/?p=698"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:55:35","slug":"17th-annual-bethabara-highland-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/17th-annual-bethabara-highland-games\/","title":{"rendered":"17th Annual Bethabara Highland Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethabara Highland Games (NC) was held on May 13, 2017.\u00a0 Overcast skies and 75 degree was the weather of the day. \u00a0\u00a0There were nineteen clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Russ and Marcia Harper hosted the Clan Wallace tent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-701\" src=\"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1-569x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1-569x1024.jpg 569w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1-768x1382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bethabara1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>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.\u00a0 Russ and I marched in the parade of Tartan.<\/p>\n<p>Russ even made it into our local paper \u201cJournalnow\u201d for sharing the Wallace sword and history of our clan.<\/p>\n<p>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 Lady Susan\u2019s Shortbread, Near and Far Scottish, Peter Blum, Tinsmith, Renaissance Iron, Rose Crag History of Family Names, Scottish Leather, Kelpie Pottery, Carolina Celt, Lumpy\u2019s Ice Cream, Celtic Traditions, Cameron British Food.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Megan Fischer, council member and Granddaughter for all the help she gave us in the tent.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to all that came out and enjoyed the day with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos and article Courtesy of Marcia Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethabara Highland Games (NC) was held on May 13, 2017.\u00a0 Overcast skies and 75 degree was the weather of the day. \u00a0\u00a0There were nineteen clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Russ and Marcia Harper hosted the Clan Wallace tent. These games are held at Historic Bethabara Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/17th-annual-bethabara-highland-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">17th Annual Bethabara Highland Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43,44,20],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-games","tag-17th-annual-bethabara-highland-games","tag-bethabara-highland-games","tag-highland-games","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}