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Another Reenactment Group

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Clan MacColin of Glenderry, based in California, reenacts part of the Scottish Highlands c. 1570, so they could be grandparents of colgaffneyis. Their focus is much more on the Gaelic culture and society of the Highlands and Ireland, which I don’t think receive nearly enough attention in Clann. Most of our military interpreters wrongly portray Highlanders as simple impoverished barbarians, when in fact they were part of a rich culture with a written literature older than English can claim. As I have written before, I have a big problem with this attitude in colgaffneyis.

Still, it is the only game in town.

Different Monday Night

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Gaeltacht Minnesota has gone to its summer schedule, so I have (roughly) alternate Monday nights free. I had planned on going to a class at Woodcraft, for which I had registered by a telephone conversation with wolfsword. However, I got a voicemail this morning that the class had been canceled for lack of students, and that my payment would be refunded.

So I ended up going into Minneapolis with mia_mcdavid for a session of the Speculative Readings Series at Dreamhaven Books, where haddayr read three excellent very short stories and another author read a single longer work, which was very different but also very good. Gaeltacht Minnesota was quite well represented there–All three teachers and several students came to hear haddayr.

Irish Note

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In Irish class last night we saw a video about Irish Television. It is interesting to see how new Irish words are formed to deal with 21st century life. In modern Irish the term for “soap opera” is sobalchlár, literally “foam program”.

Connections at the Fair

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haddayr and I were pleased to see two of our friends from our Irish Class stop by colgaffneyis camp. We introduced them and showed them around. c_nocturnum showed one of them how to wear a greatkilt, and bullettheblue sold him a bonnet that twolodge had made.

Another visitor was a computer consultant I know from work and his wife. Recognition was delayed a second because of unfamiliar dress: I had never seen him in shorts and T-shirt, and he had never seen me in a kilt. One of those “he looks familiar…” moments, then I recognized the corporate logo on his shirt.

I also saw one of my Carleton folk dance connections, who came by with his wife and child. He works for the college now, but Farmington is at least as easy to reach from Northfield as from the Cities.

Busy Week

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Out every evening ….

Monday — Irish Class

Tuesday — Loading colgaffneyis trailer, and a belated birthday dinner. See here

Wednesday — colgaffneyis Dance Guild. Also begin packing for the weekend.

Thursday — Set up colgaffneyis camp at the Minnesota Scottish Fair.

Friday — Go to the Fair. Dinner there and camping out for the night.

Saturday (All day) — The fair itself. The weather should be much better than last year.