This weeks Tribune announces the Highland Games and Celtic Festival to be held here in Mariposa this weekend (May 5-6) Also included is some genealogy tidbits on the family of this years Games-master, Patrick E. JAMES- Patricks great great grandparents were Lewis Peter WESTON and Mary Ann CUNNINGHAM, married in Mariposa in 1857. Jennie WESTON, great grandmother of Patrick, was the daughter of Lewis and Mary Ann, and was born in the Sherlocks District of Mariposa County in 1858. Her husband was John Cornelius JAMES. Grandparents of Patricks were Sydney Lewis JAMES and Christina Harriet FRANK, born at Whiskey Flat on Sherlock Creek in 1878. His parents were Elwyn V. JAMES, born in Mariposa in 1914, and Margie Belle COVERT. Her parents settled in Merced County during the 1850's. Her grandfather (William WHEALAN) had left Ireland during the potato famine of the 1840's. You never know where we will find some great little tidbits! Sharon- your not coming for the games??? Best, Carolyn