Marjoribankses, I have been helping my distant Killian & Coleman cousin Eddie Killian do tents for his Clan Hunter starting with the Waxhaw Games in Oct. 1999. As a result, I: marched for M'banks at Waxhaw October 1999 did M'banks table at Tartan Day, State Museum 9 Apr marched for M'banks at Loch Norman 16 Apr got 1st cousin Harry to carry flag at Savannah 13 May (but due to squeezing events & my failure to communicate, we missed getting into parade at Sav.) & I will do a M'banks tent at Gatlinburg this coming weekend! Or is someone else doing a M'banks tent at Gatlinburg? Eddie needed to finish Savannah before asking his wife for permission to do Gatlinburg. <grin> I will email Gatlinburg today & snail checks tomorrow. Two questions: 1) Is anyone doing the M'banks clan tent at Gatlinburg TN? 2) Are any of you coming to the Gatlinburg Games? Dr. Dean Steward, Franklin NC phoned last week and said clan tents are free, but you have to bring your own clan tent and they want to know within 2 weeks, which is now 1 week. Franklin NC is the same weekend at your nephew's Huntersville AL Scottish Games. Wouldn't you rather help him in AL? I am not sure I can afford to come to Franklin after having gone to the above plus Indian Springs June 3. I will go to Franklin only if I can afford it or Eddie says let's go and that will require his wife to agree and it will require Franklin Games to let us notify them late. I cannot see Eddie making a decision until after June 3. Eddie works so may not be able to take off. He is planning on going to Grandfather Mt. I do not know if I will be at Grandfather Mt. BTW, Eddie has been wearing one of my Johnston great kilts but as of Memorial Day which was a week ago, he has joined a reenactment group due to NAACP and treason of SC legislature & so he wore his CSA uniform (wool) with coat, gun, & flag to Savannah which was hot. The Savannah Games is at a CSA fort. The only flag flying over the fort was the stars & bars (not to be confused with Southern Cross. Stars & Bars is also called 1st National). Sadly SAMS only did 3 anthems at the games: UK, Canada, USA. Some games do one of the Scotland quasi-anthems. Eddie's 9 year old (Kyle) likes the games & is doing well in the athletics. He is the only one that can participate in the games since the rest of us are well over the hill & in our declining years. LOL Of course we old folks can do tents & march in the parade. -- James W. Green III/285 Agnew Rd/Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home: 803-635-9236 http://www.Genealogy.Org/~green & http://millennium.fortunecity.com/byker/362/ ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.