bill@persci.UUCP (07/19/85)
As long as there are discussions of Highland Games going oon, has anyone
out there in netland been to the Alma ("Scotland, U.S.A."), Michigan, Games,
held over Memorial Day weekend?
I am tentatively planning a trip back to that area next year (my hometown is
some 20 miles from Alma), and thought that I might schedule it to take in
the Games there. I have heard that they are pretty big, but then it seems
that almost every Games advertises itself that way.
I am curious about:
location (held in a park, school, fairgrounds, etc),
attendance (ex: Santa Rosa CA is expecting about 40-50K people to
pass through this year),
size of competitions (ex: Santa Rosa will have 30 pipe bands,
down from past years),
lodging (campgrounds, do motels tend to get filled up in the area?),
weather (it's been *many* years since I've been in the Midwest),
etc, etc..
Some of this information I can get from the Alma Chamber of Commerce and
the Games Committee, but un-involved personal observations can be quite
enlightening. None of the pipers nor Scottish vendors here have been to Alma.
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Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
"Have you hugged your bagpipe today?"