The Chief Is Coming - Clan Henderson Society

and proved to be very popular. TheBrowne Sisters & George Cavanaughand Alex Beaton provided entertainmentfor the guests. Men of Worth and LindaDewar highlighted Saturday night witha concert.During the festival, visitors were ableto attend workshops of Gaelic languageor genealogy, watch bagpipe, athleticsports and dance competitions. Threevery different shows were performedin the arena. They included Bordercollie herding dogs and two historyreenactment groups. Byland Forevercommemorate the Gordon Highlandersof 1882 and Highland Warriors reenactthe era of William Wallace and Robertthe Bruce. On Saturday, everyone wasinvited to the wedding of a couple that aremembers of Byland Forever. The brideand groom were dressed in costumes ofthe 1880s and were led to the ceremonyby pipers. Entertainment was providedby the Royal Scottish Country DanceSociety, Alex Beaton, Bad Haggis, theBrowne Sisters & George Cavanaugh,the Wicked Tinkers, Men of Worth andCeltic Spring, a family of five talentedchildren and their father, who entertainwith their fiddles and dancing. Sevenpipe bands were entered in both bandand individual competitions, includingthe famous Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band,and bands from California and Arizona.Sixty-one clan tents were set up torepresent their clan membership alongwith Clan Henderson at the festival.Twelve Henderson cousins, their familiesand friends visited our tent, including BethGay of the Ellen Payne Odom Library,who is also a member of Clan Henderson.Special thanks go to new memberKacey Pipkin and her husband Scottfor representing our Clan and carryingour banner in the Clans Presentationon Saturday. We congratulate AshleyMenard, who placed 3 rd in the HighlandReel Dance Competition. Welcome tonew members Kacey Pipkin, PatriciaHuskey and George Henderson. Ourthanks and appreciation for her efforts inhelping to organize this excellent eventto Nellie Lowry, of Clan Henderson, whoalso serves as treasurer of the SeasideGames Association.South East RegionFL, GA, NC, SCHarry J. KeiferCommissionerLoch Hartwell Scottish Gamesby Suzanne KeiferThis is the third year for these littlegames. The location is just outsideLake Hartwell in the lovelynortheast Georgia Mountains. This timeof year (early autumn) is very colorfuland we weren’t disappointed withthe great weather over the weekend.Clan Henderson was one of fourteenclans represented and the only oneproviding COSCA services. That littleCOSCA banner drew quite a few peoplecurious about potential Scottish roots andclan affiliations. Caryn Henderson and Iwere able to direct several individualsto clans present at the games and filledout information cards for the remainingfolks. These cards get sent on to COSCA,who in turn send the requests forinformation to the clans. We’ve so oftenbeen rewarded with return visitors insubsequent years indicating that they’vejoined a particular clan or Society andare very excited about learning more oftheir heritage.We had a small but decent Hendersonturnout on Saturday. Billy Hendersonof Greenville, South Carolina broughtSeamus who quickly became the centerof attention at our tent (and a couple ofthe surrounding ones as well). Seamusis a very gentlemanly Westie.Both Caryn and Eric competed in thebattle axe throw—each won first place intheir division!!Although these were slated as twodaygames, Sunday was extremely quiet.It was our first time attending thesegames; they’re friendly, easily accessibleand occur the first weekend of October.We’ll be back.Rex Redmon, Chaplain Fred Sanford,George Henderson and LynnHenderson Schultz at Waxhaw.Waxhaw Games29 October 2005by Fred SanfordThis year’s Waxhaw Games, 15miles south of Charlotte, NorthCarolina, was an exuberant,forty-three-clan, heavy athletic event,under Carolina blue skies on 29 October.David Henderson sponsored theHenderson tent, and George Hendersonconvened it, not sure about who wouldshow up, but by 11 A.M. at the openingparade there were six of us on the field.Rex Redmon, who failed to enterthe bonnie knees contest this year, waspresent with his wife Margaret. A newmember in 2005 was Lynn HendersonSchultz; she eagerly entered the women’scompetitions, and placed third in theHaggis Toss, receiving recognition fromthe grandstand from announcer LarrySprinkle, the Charlotte NBC weatherman.Mac Henderson was present along withmy wife, Peggy and me. Also attendingwas the Larry Curtis family.12 An Canach Winter 2006