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Highland Games Bring Bagpipes ind Brawny Scots Clansmen ly R.T. Smith The skirl of a bagpipe twists on the breeze as a pectrum of sword or crown-crested banners dances to a pirited Highland Fling in McRae Meadows at the foot f Grandfather Mountain, just a few miles from Boone, t is mid-July, and a host of brawny Scots clansmen and omen have come to embrace the heritage of the hghland Games. Scotsmen from California to Loch Jess attend the games each year in their traditional artan kilts to dance, sing, and compete and worship in he largest gathering of the clans on the North American ontinent. Scottish bands parade around the field to the riving rhythm of snare drums as athletes compete in ontests of speed, strength and skill. The caber is tossed, fcing in the sun like the hand of a clock that turns back o the Scotland of Burn, while young descendents of the shepherds and lairds of Scotland dance the sailor ' s hornpipe or explode their colorful bagpipes into the musical drone that is the magic of the Highlands. Sweat-drenched runners who have endured the tough course from Blowing Rock to the meadow cross the finish line, as wee bairns chuckle in their mother ' s arms at the smell of hot meat pies and the antics of border collies. The South ' s finest archers compete in the historic Highland Shoot, fencers lunge and parry, and muscular wrestlers grapple Scot ' s style. This great festival of heritage, enthusiasm, and the sheer appreciation of the mountains runs for three days in the pleasant mountain sunshine, and by the moon there are song, dance, stories of the old country and, of course, Scotch. The Highland Games is just another example of history refusing to hide in a book and the sparkle of the hills refusing to be extinguished. Highland Games 13
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