Get out your best kilt and be sure to attend the hurling competitions at the Annual Glasgow Highland Games. The four days of Scottish family entertainment are held each year on the weekend following Memorial Day at Barren River Lake State Resort Park. The event is open to everyone, whatever your nationality or ethnic origin. The festival began in 1986 to celebrate the Celtic roots of Glasgow, which is the city in Scotland for which the Barren County community is named. Lsi Fastpath Keygen Free here. Arta Succesului Pavel Corut Pdf Viewer. Nearly 20,000 people from the United States, Canada and Great Britain attend the annual south-central Kentucky celebration. Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 Selbstschutz Deaktivieren. Activities include Scottish dances, bagpipe performances and theatrical productions, as well as athletic competitions such as hurling, stone lifting and caber tossing. For more information about the Highland Games, visit Photos l l l l l l l l.
Department of Travel Kentucky’s Scottish Events Would Please “Rabbie” Burns Press Release Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009 Contact Information: Chris Kellogg Chris.Kellogg@ky.gov Bob Adams Bob.Adams@ky.gov Kentucky ’s Scottish Events Would Please “Rabbie” Burns FRANKFORT, Ky. – If Robert (“Rabbie”) Burns, Scotland’s famed national poet, were with us today, he’d no doubt head for two Scottish celebrations in Kentucky where bagpipes hum and kilt wearing is encouraged. The connection between the Bluegrass State and our feisty Celtic cousins is evident at festivals that feature Highland games, pipe bands, traditional music, clans and border collies on separate weekends in May. Some of Kentucky’s earliest Scottish settlers made their way here following Daniel Boone’s path in the 1700’s wilderness. Vestiges of their contributions to culture in the commonwealth are celebrated here today.