Quote Originally Posted by creagdhubh View Post
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Wonderful images, Chas! Thank you for sharing them. It is nice to see that many Clan Chattan clans attended this particular gathering, to include the Macphersons.

Best wishes,
Even more clans were represented, but these are the standards of the chiefs (and one commander) present. The 1977 Gathering was a superb affair with several of the opening events in the Assembly Rooms on George Street. It lacked the commercialism and captive nature of the last one; after the 2009 event many of the chiefs expressed the feeling that they had been removed from their closets and dusted off as part of an operation designed to make money for one enterprise.

In 1977 more events took place on the old lands than took place in Edinburgh, with the chiefs and leading folk of the clans (as different from clan societies) opening their homes and entertaining visitors from all over the world. There has been much talk on this forum (and in Scotland) about the absence of publicity in advance of the last one; that was an Edinburgh-only event in a national Year of Homecoming. The one in 1977 was a Scotland-wide gathering with opening events in Edinburgh.