Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American SouthEach year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Highlandism and Scottish Identity The Origins of Contemporary Ethnic Expression | 17 |
Scottish Heritage and Revival in North Carolina | 45 |
Kith and Clan in the ScottishAmerican Community | 68 |
The Brigadoon of the ScottishAmerican Community Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings | 99 |
Heritage Pilgrimage and a Sense for Scottish Places | 127 |
Warrior Scots | 153 |
Scottish Heritage Southern Style | 181 |
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American ancestors annual athletic authenticity bagpipes battle Bonnie Prince Charlie Cape Fear Cape Fear Valley Celtic Celts claim clan chiefs Clan Donald clan history clan societies clan system clan tartans clan tents clansfolk community members Covenanters Culloden cultural dancing descendants Donald dress Edinburgh eighteenth-century emigration ethnic Flora MacDonald Gaelic gatherings genealogical Grandfather Games Grandfather Mountain Grandfather Mountain Highland groups Hanoverian heritage events heritage lore heritage movement heritage revival heritage societies homeland immigrants interest Jacobite period Jacobite Rising kilt kinship Kirkin landscapes Loch Norman Lowland Lowland Scots MacRae memory military Mountain Highland Games nineteenth century North Carolina origins parade participants past pilgrimage pipe Presbyterian Prince Charlie regiments rituals romanticized Scotland Scots Scots-Irish Scott Scottish clan Scottish community Scottish country dancing Scottish ethnicity Scottish heritage Scottish identity Scottish-American community sense social songs South symbolic themes tion tish today's tourist tours traditions warrior wear