Editorial in the Patriot News

**millar** · 7th April 06, 06:32 AM

This article appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot News yesterday. It is an essay written by a high school girl about her kiltwearing grandfather. I really enjoyed it.

http://www.pennlive.com/search/index...ennoped&coll=1

**Kilted KT** · 7th April 06, 06:38 AM

That is a fantastic article! Always good to hear someone realize that the silly plaid thing grandpa wears isn't a skirt, but a proud and mighty kilt!

**mddock58** · 7th April 06, 06:48 AM

Great job by a young lady in expressing her own confusion, and then understanding.

**GMan** · 7th April 06, 07:08 AM

Good for Grandpa, for not only wearing a Kilt, but in having such a great and wonderful granddaughter. Good story.

**UmAnOnion** · 7th April 06, 08:42 AM

great story. Its nice to read of a yongster taking the time out to get to know where they come from
I hope the young writer gets to bring in one of grand dads kilts (and maybe grand dad to model it) to show her friends the man behind the story.

**JayFilomena** · 7th April 06, 10:00 AM

This was a beautiful essay, and it gives me hope. My oldest daughter was...6, I believe, when I started wearing my kilt, and she has never really accepted it. I have shown up at her school in my kilt, and I wear it when ever I take her out for Daddy Daughter day, and she never acts embarassed nor tries to over explain her eccentric father, but will frankly state she rather I not wear it. She is 9 now, and maybe in 6 years, she will be as proud as that young lass that wrote the essay.

**Sherry** · 7th April 06, 12:15 PM

Very nice essay. It would be nice if more Scottish heritage groups sponsored things like this to help encourage young ppl to get involved.

**GlassMan** · 9th April 06, 09:06 PM

What a wonderful essay. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But I have to admit that the idea of a kilt-wearing grandpa as an extra in a Britney Spears video was a littl disturbing.