[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Joseph Cirou]

There are some churches around us that are well aware of their Scots
heritage. One place where I substituted was announcing the annual Kirkin'
o' the Tartans

Joe

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the 300th
> anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish bishops,
> which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
> opportunity to stick it to the Brits. The piper came into the back of the
> church after most of the congregation was seated, so they weren't aware of
> him, and when the first notes came out there was considerable shock and
> surprise, though mostly positive, especially among the kids. That church
> has excellent acoustics and is highly reverberant, so you can imagine......
>
> My youngest grandson is heavily Scottish on his mother's side and Puerto
> Rican on his father's. When he was a little tyke my daughter commented that
> "he smiles at the pipes and boogies to Tito Puente." Both her boys are
> enthusiastic about the yearly Highland festival and games that take place
> in the area where they live.
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:51 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh heavens, I can just imagine, David!
> >
> > Oddly enough this was my second bagpipe experrience in a few days though
> I
> > can't recall when I last heard the pipes.
> >
> > St Andrew's College in Grahamstown, an Anglican school of fine tradition,
> > had some kind of anniversary celebration this weekend and we were there
> for
> > the horse riding. At our Saturday evening meal in a restaurant next to
> the
> > school fields, a piper started to play from somewhere up above the
> stands,
> > in the pitch dark. What an eerie sound especially in the night.
> >
> > There's somethng about it that gets into the marrow of one's bones
> though.
> > Probably by now many of us have a bit of Scots somewhere in us, or
> perhaps
> > just an ancestral fear of them in battle array!!
> >
> > Sally D
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 at 04:21 Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 3/17/2015 5:42:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hugh  comes from Scots stock and he had previously asked for a piper in
> > > tartan to  play him into and out of the church, very moving (and  loud,
> > > inside!)>>>>
> > >
> > > Saint Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis, MN USA has an annual
> > > Saint Andrew's Day, with a whole troop of bagpipers in that
> > > highly reverberant space - stone vaults are 75' and the building
> > > is about 200' long.
> > >
> > > It is absolute bedlam.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David Strang.
> > >
> >
>