Franklin's own Scottish Heritage Festival -- JUNE 14, 2008

"Always Father's Day Weekend"

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Honored Guests & Symposium Speakers 

All talks will be held at Scottish Tartans Museum 

Symposium Area

 

                       

Jean Hayes

Franklin's Resident Piper

Saturday, June 14  12:30 PM   "All About the Bag Pipes"  

Jean Hayes will present a program on bag piping.  Jean is our resident piper, a gifted music teacher and also a fine harpist.  She has won harping medals at Grandfather Mountain Games.  Jeanne leads the Scottish community in parades, Burns Night Suppers, Scottish festivals, Tartan Day Events, Fridays at the Museum, Kirkin Of the Tartans etc.

 

 

 

 

 

                                      

2008 Honored Guest of Taste of Scotland 

Marjorie Logie Warren

Tartan Handweaver

Saturday June 14  1:45 PM  "Tartan: A Cloth of a Nation"

 

Marjorie Warren grew up outside of Glasgow, Scotland, in an area known for its carpet industry.  Her first experience with fibre art was as a carpet designer for one of the large manufacturers nearby.  It wasn't until she moved to the US in the 1960s, as the wife of an American minister that she took up weaving as a hobby, learning from Guild member Kathrin Scott (Clyde, NC).  Warren's Scottish heritage and interest in the arts and history of her native homeland eventually led her to specialize in weaving Scottish tartans.  Her skills in weaving tartans have advanced to include 18th century Scottish costuming and history, and her clientele is composed of many Scottish-Americans who delight in connecting with their family's heritage. She has woven tartans for such notables as the Rev. Billy Graham's family, the Ambassador to Great Britian, and the North Carolina Governor's Mansion.  Warren specializes in researching and weaving less well-known tartans and has designed new tartans for groups such as Lees-McCrae College, Montreat Scottish Society, The Atlanta Golf Club, and the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.

 

 

Mark Harden of Cowdenknowes & Romilly Squire present 
Saturday June 14  3:00 PM  "Scottish Heraldry"

 

Mark became 16th Baron in August 2006, when the title was passed down from his father, Barry George Harden, 15th Baron. The old Baronial estate of Cowdenknowes is located in the Scottish Borders between Earlston and Melrose. Mark was formerly Baron-Baillie of Cowdenknowes, commissioned by his father as such and had represented the Barony on this side of the pond in that capacity prior to becoming Baron. Mark, having been raised in Cambridge, England, left the UK in 1989 and traveled extensively before settling in Atlanta in 1995.. Mark is dedicated to the preservation of Scottish heritage and history and spends a great deal of his spare time pursuing this passion. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Board Officer and Executive Assistant of the Society of Scottish Armigers, a Member of the Board of Advisors for the Greater Greenville Games, SC. Mark and his wife Beth have three children, Ryan 9, Elizabeth 4, and Catherine 2.

  

The Artist as a young man

 

Romilly Squire O.St.J., G.O.S.E., KNN., D.A., F.S.A.Scot., F.R.S.A., S.H.A.

 

Romilly was born and raised in the City of Glasgow. Following an un-remarkable education at the High School of Glasgow he went on to study Graphic Design at the City's famous School of Art. After graduating, he obtained a Certificate of Education from Jordanhill College and taught art at High School level for six years.

 

Romilly's interest in Heraldry developed at an early age. The Arthurian legends played an important part in his formative years and were instrumental in sparking a passion for Arms and Armour, Chivalry and Heraldry. The wall above his childhood bed was decorated by Don Pottinger's "Scotland of Old" chart and thus his sleeping imagination was fired by images of ancient coats of arms, redolent of the romance of a bygone age.

 

Throughout his teaching career Romilly spent a great deal of his spare time producing heraldic artwork for family and friends, and also for his own enjoyment. It was only natural that his greatest influence at this time was the work of Don Pottinger, one of the most innovative heraldic artists of his generation.

 

Bob Martin

Kilt Maker, Kilt Historian, Author

 

Bob Martin is a retired kiltmaker, a kilt historian, author of All About Your Kilt, and a talented landscape painter, as well.  He has made well over 2,000 kilts, and was responsible for reviving the original tailored box pleated kilt of the 1790s in 1982.  His research on the development of the kilt has been entirely original and primary.  He is a former Fellow of the Scottish Tartans Society (1983), and was elected a decade later to the Guild of Tartan Scholars.  He was also elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2003. He is also a life member of An Commun Gaidhealach. 



 

 

This project is supported by a Grassroots Arts Program grant from the Arts Council of Macon County and the North Carolina Arts Council. An agency funded by the state and the National Endowment for the Arts. TDC, Main Street Program for Franklin and The Friends of the Scottish Tartans Museum are your hosts.

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