Massacre of Glencoe

[Kilt TN]

As a descendant of the Campbell clan, I have not murdered anyone yet, and don't plan on it in anytime soon. Both my best friend and I, find it very humorous the grudges that are still around. You see she is a Mclean, and the Mclean and the Campbell go way back something about a loan of money and the Mclean castle. She has a friend from Scotland that is also a Mclean clans member who visits about once a year, he was so ant-Campbell that she couldn't even have a can of Campbell's soup in the house. I think he has got over it somewhat now, as long as I buy the drinks.

[Jock Scot]

As a descendant of the Campbell clan, I have not murdered anyone yet, and don't plan on it in anytime soon. Both my best friend and I, find it very humorous the grudges that are still around. You see she is a Mclean, and the Mclean and the Campbell go way back something about a loan of money and the Mclean castle. She has a friend from Scotland that is also a Mclean clans member who visits about once a year, he was so ant-Campbell that she couldn't even have a can of Campbell's soup in the house. I think he has got over it somewhat now, as long as I buy the drinks.

There is a wonderful story,true I think,about when the Chief of the Macleans reached his hundredth birthday.The head of Clan Campbell,The Duke of Argyll,sent birthday greetings to the lucky man and suggested that the feud that had been going on between the two clans for centuries,could now be put to rest.The Chief of the Macleans replied that the feud would most certainly stop for his lifetime!

[Kilt TN]

LOL...will have to tell my friend....She also invited me to the Mclean clan gathering.. .but told me I would have to wear my other half's tartan.. Walker

[Larry124]

Indulge me in a little silliness…

If someone were to found the Historical Grudge Authority -- perhaps a fist over angry eyes crest -- and ask even a negligible charge for Grudge Registration (Grudge Charter for new grudges), they would become very rich very quickly.

It could begin small -- not even have to be national or international. I could register hundreds of historic grudges within a few dozen miles from where I sit.

A grudge chart/map for even a relatively local area might look like a spider’s web. More likely like one of those large balls made of rubber bands.

And folks would disagree with the detail or validity of each grudge…creating…more grudges!

Of course some may resent the Grudge Authority’s judgments and determinations.
Hey presto! Another grudge!

Sigh. I guess we’ll need some kind of a Grudge adjudication process. A Grudge Court perhaps?

[Riverkilt]

Hey Kilt TN,

I used to live a bit east of you in Bristol back about 1971-2. The economy was a mess back then and I struggled to find work. I wound up selling cars for Campbell Ford in Kingsport. My grandfather Murdoch was beside himself that I'd, "Work for a Campbell."

How kind, yet foolish, that new generations are nice enough to carry the insanity of their ancestors. Of course, one need not look far to see many other examples. I well remember working in a residential treatment center in Phoenix about 15 years ago. Two young clients just couldn't get along because through some weird fate they'd both wound up at our agency at the same time. The problem was they'd graduated from rival high schools back in Louisiana. The rest of us would ask them to explain this hatred to us and they'd respond that we wouldn't understand...and they were right.

Gotta be the human condition to develop someone to look down on. Maybe more convenient to pick a catagory like a clan or a rival high school than to have to go out and find and assemble a catagory like "people who don't wear their kilt the way I think they should.

And hate is soooo delicious. We can mold it and shape it and wallow in it and savor it in so many different ways. Our Creator must have loved closed minds since there are so many of them....

Ron

[BoldHighlander]

I had nothing better to do this afternoon so I was watching my disc on Ireland & Scotland from my Rick Steves Europe 2000-2007 dvd travel set, and at one point he pays a visit to Glencoe, where a local (I forget his name) who volunteers at the museum conducts him around the glen telling him of some of the history while wearing his MacDonald kilt, when they get to a point about the massacre.

What I found interesting is while this gentleman is pointing out to Steves the three passes that were blocked by the redcoats, he points at the one that was unguarded and says his 6th (? - I don't remember) great-grandmother escaped through that pass where she sought & obtained refuge from the Campbells(!!)

Interesting, no?

[Highland Logan]

Here is a good story for you. In my "Scotland For Dummies" Travel book (written with the folks from Frommer's), they mention the 2002 appointment of a Campbell to head the Glencoe Visitor Centre, and how the local MacDonald's were unhappy with this.

Frank

[JS Sanders]

This is an interesting pre-release short video of the Massacre of Glencoe. It is not without historical inaccuracies - found several and I'm not a historian.

Has interesting bits, including the appearance of the dreaded spirit-hag, bean sith (ban shee). If she was seen washing bloodied clothing, death was imminent. One was reported to have been seen prior to Culloden as well.

The ballad accompanying the video is sung with the clear Celtic voice of Moira Kerr.

Slainte yall,
steve

www.memphisbagpipes.com/glencoe.wmv

[BoldHighlander]

This is an interesting pre-release short video of the Massacre of Glencoe. It is not without historical inaccuracies - found several and I'm not a historian.

Has interesting bits, including the appearance of the dreaded spirit-hag, bean sith (ban shee). If she was seen washing bloodied clothing, death was imminent. One was reported to have been seen prior to Culloden as well.

The ballad accompanying the video is sung with the clear Celtic voice of Moira Kerr.

Slainte yall,
steve

www.memphisbagpipes.com/glencoe.wmv

Very interesting Steve, thanks for posting.

Any website for this project or date for it to be released?

[JS Sanders]

<< Any website for this project or date for it to be released? >>

My understanding is that it may become a short independent film, but no info past that. Perhaps someone here has more current knowledge.

Slainte,
steve