Tartan Ball & Ceilidh
We received notice of the 53th Annual Clan Macleay Pipe Band Tartan Ball and Ceilidh (Kay-Lee) to be held at the Airport Sheraton Hotel Ballroom. We headed out, underdressed (yet presentable) , and had a great time enjoying the company, music and sights. On the program:Holding Out Band, Clan Gordon Pipe Band (Tacoma), Portland Metro Pipe Band, MacKenzie and Highland Dance Company (Lake Oswego).
Major Frank W. McIntosh (United States Army (Ret) and his wife, Margaret poised for me. Note his walking stick.
This is the walking stick that Frank picked as a branch outside of Inverness, Scotland at the site of the Battle of Culloden in 1746. He brought it back to USA and had it made into a walking stick. At the battle 500 of the McIntosh clan were slaughtered by the British. Robert, Scott, Lee Ann and I walked the very battle fields of Culloden.
Frank introduced me to Ogden Kimberley, who is the best piper in the entire area. I will hire him to play sometime in the future.
What did you wear? I assume Dad wore his kilt!
We realized too late that we had intended to go to the event. We didn’t have tickets, but got them at the door. Robert did not wear his kilt and I just wear slacks. If we go again we will dress up more, but other people were casual, yet most were dressed up. It is always the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Thank you for posting that picture of Frank and Margaret! Frank passed on in early November; his memorial service was the day after Veterans’ Day, and his children and his comrades from the American Legion Honor Guard were there to say a last goodbye — as was one of the Portland pipers. If you have a larger version of the picture, I’d love a copy, and I’d pass it on to his children.