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National Tartan Day

Presented by Greensboro Historical Museum at Greensboro Historical Museum

April 4, 2009

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"A Taste of Scottish Culture" will recognize this year's National Tartan Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Greensboro Historical Museum, 130 Summit Avenue in Greensboro.

The event is sponsored by the Triad Highland Games and will include samples of Scottish food, bagpipe music, Gaelic language sessions, displays of military items and clan crests, and information about the 2009 Homecoming Scotland.

Tartan Day kicks off the celebration of National Scots and Scots-Irish Heritage Month, and there will be a public reading of the General Assembly resolution that established it in North Carolina. Gov. Beverly Perdue's proclamation for the events will also be read.

A special feature will be the display of the 273-year-old MacAllister Broadsword brought to North Carolina by Col. Alexander MacAllister from Islay, Scotland, in 1736. MacAllister settled in Cumberland County and was a colonel in the Cumberland County Militia during the Revolutionary War.

This is a special year for Scotland and Scottish-Americans because of the 2009 Homecoming Scotland, a year-long series of events welcoming members of the Scottish diaspora back to the home country. That event was first envisioned in talks involving highland games officials here.

More information is available from James Murray, event organizer, at (336) 348-1557, from Ann Jackson, games president, at (336) 431-8482, or from the museum at (336) 373-2043.