Kilt Walk Puget Sound

**Oldhiker** · 26th February 08, 08:58 PM

(Don) Don Moore, (Robert Lamb) Robert Lamb and (Oldhiker) myself have been kicking around ideas this winter about how to get a bunch of Kilties together and sponsor a charitable event at the same time. See what you think of this idea below, give us your comments and who would be interested in participating.

Enjoy the company of kilted brethren and raise some money for the Kilfinan Church burial vault restoration project located on the Cowal peninsula in Scotland.
When: Sunday May 31th 2008
Where: Tacoma, WA
Tour revitalized Downtown Tacoma for a 5K walk

We would ask that you solicit pledges for the completed walk.

100% of the funds raised will be sent to Friends of Kilfinan Parish Church for use in the Lamont Clan burial vault restoration project. This 13th century church of St Finan located on the Cowal peninsula on west coast of Scotland has some of the best preserved ancient burial stones in western Scotland.
http://www.drumcot.org/index.html Friends of Kilfinan Parish Church website

Kilfinan Church exterior

Kilfinan church interior already restored

A grave stone

interior of current vault

Vault Restoration Project rendering

**Robert Lamb** · 26th February 08, 09:50 PM

Hey George count me in. I think this a good idea.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb

**Kilted_John** · 27th February 08, 12:18 PM

Sounds interesting. I'll see if I can make it...

-J

**BoldHighlander** · 27th February 08, 07:56 PM

I'm very interested, though I won't know if I can make it until the date draws closer.

I will post this to myspace -- I have a few local (e.g. Seattle /Tacoma) kilted friends on their who can get the word out.

**The Barry** · 27th February 08, 08:27 PM

School, etc. permitting, I'll be there!

**Luckey** · 28th February 08, 10:20 AM

George,
What a great idea! I'm sure it will go well. Unfortunatly, time and distance will keep me from attending. Good Luck!
Jim

**auld argonian** · 28th February 08, 10:36 AM

Looks like you have qualified restoration people working there and they understand the nature of the building. I've had the misfortune of having seen several really bad attempts to "restore" older religious buildings and I can only ask every member of the forum who might ever be in the position to commission any restoration work on any building to please be sure that they're working with qualified people...amateurs need not apply.

Recently my own uncle, in a very well intentioned effort to restore his local church, removed some murals from the sections of a dome surrounding an altar in a Roman Catholic church and only then asked my wife, who's an authority on this sort of thing, if they should have been taken down. You ever get that awful drop-out feeling in the pit of your stomach?

Please keep us posted on the progress of the work.

Best

AA

**efer** · 28th February 08, 10:21 PM

Sounds like a good idea. I'll check with the calendar to see if we are free to join in.

FYI...the 31st of May is a Saturday.

Cheers,

**northernsky** · 28th February 08, 10:48 PM

Sounds like fun. Maybe I can rastle up some canajian folks to come on down.

**Oldhiker** · 29th February 08, 05:36 PM

Thanks to all for the good response, we are going to proceed with the fine details.
one of which is

Originally Posted by efer

FYI...the 31st of May is a Saturday.

Clarifaction on the Date, The walk will be on Sunday June 1. I guess I didn't leap year.

Thanks Eric

I will send out details to all that expressed interest as the plan is finalized.

also I want to share the power of this forum and how small the world is becoming. I got an email from the Dunoon Scotland newspaper who found this notice. AMAZING

If anybody in the Puget Sound area is coming to Puyallup for Tartan Day, we will have a table there to discuss this in more detail
http://www.tartanday-wa.org/