2024 Grandfather Mountain Highland Games

**Appalachia** · 21st June 24, 11:25 AM

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As I bake in the East Tennessee hills, my mind is in the High Country.
July 11-14th.
XMarks Meetup for pics and banter at 12:30 at the Scottish Tartans Authority (STA) tent. Shortbread, cupcakes, & drams encouraged.

**ASinclair** · 21st June 24, 12:26 PM

Looking forward to it! Clan Sinclair will be in tent 2-11. All Xmarkers are invited to stop for Old Pulteney and Nancy's shortbread!

**MacInnes** · 3rd July 24, 09:15 AM

I'm going this year for the first time. Looking forward to it!

**OC Richard** · 12th July 24, 10:22 AM

Sorry to say I haven't been there in ages, since my mom lived in Elizabethton, late 1980s into the early 1990s.

Have a great time!! I'll be looking forward to the pictures so I can vicariously experience it.

BTW if any of you all happen to snap some pics of pipe bands I'd love to see those in particular. Thanks!

**MacInnes** · 16th July 24, 03:03 PM

We had a geat time, definitely the best Highland Games I have been to.

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**OC Richard** · 17th July 24, 07:10 AM

Thanks!

I see that all the bands got the memo about white hose.

It was around 15 years ago, when the bands here in California, and in Scotland, had all switched to dark hose, that I was going back for my annual visit to the Bridgeport (West Virginia) Highland Games and asked for permission to march in the Massed Bands.

Well, I looked around and I was the only one who wasn't wearing white hose! I was thinking "didn't they get the memo?"