{"id":755,"date":"2017-07-21T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/?p=755"},"modified":"2017-07-21T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:54:35","slug":"62nd-annual-grandfather-mountain-highland-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/62nd-annual-grandfather-mountain-highland-games\/","title":{"rendered":"62nd Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games (NC) was held on July 6,7,8,9, 2017.\u00a0 Rainy Friday to start off the weekend but the sun did come out to greet the eighty clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Also at the games are Scottish Tartan Museum, Council of Scottish Clans and Associations and Scottish Culture and St. Andrews Society of Upper South Carolina and the Society of William Wallace.\u00a0 Russ and Marcia Harper along with Larry and Judy Slight hosted the Clan Wallace tents.<\/p>\n

These games are held at MacRae meadow on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina. \u00a0\u00a0Thursday night Russ did the calling of, the Clan. \u00a0Wallaces cheered as he yelled FREEDOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lots of Wallaces attended this weekend actives, Wes and Raine Wallace and son Adam Wallace and family, William Wallace, Mark Clifford, John and Sally Wallace, Randy Dedrickson, Mary Wallace, Judy Wallace Moore, Larry and Judy Slight, Bill and Betsy Wallace, Terry and Kelly Wallace alone with many more.<\/p>\n

We had a special guest at the Games this year, Actor Cesar Domboy currently of \u201cOutlander\u201d fame, as the adult Fergus.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The 2017 Bear Run, part of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, started in Linville Thursday night and concluded at the top of Grandfather Mountain. Over 800 runners started the race and ranged in age from 7 to 77.<\/p>\n

For the 3rd<\/sup> year at Grandfather Mountain, we had women athletes competing in the games. Amy Jenkins proudly wears the Wallace green when she competes. Go Amy!!!!<\/p>\n

Our thanks to all that came out and enjoy the weekend with us. Without YOU there is no Clan Wallace. Can\u2019t wait to see you all next year!<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Marcia Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games (NC) was held on July 6,7,8,9, 2017.\u00a0 Rainy Friday to start off the weekend but the sun did come out to greet the eighty clan tents participating and Clan Wallace was among them. \u00a0Also at the games are Scottish Tartan Museum, Council of Scottish Clans and Associations and Scottish Culture … Continue reading 62nd Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19,56,57,20,55,31,32],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clan-games","tag-clan-games","tag-grandfather-mountain","tag-grandfather-mountain-highland-games","tag-highland-games","tag-scottish-fest","tag-scottish-festival","tag-scottish-games","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clanwallace.org\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}