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E News for Scottish Americans
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Greetings COSCA Members and Friends:
Welcome to a new edition of The Claymore, COSCA's online newsletter that keeps you up to date on what is happening in the Scottish American world. This edition is a bit different as our look has changed to match our spiffy new website. What you see here in terms of design and feel is pretty much what you will find at our new online home at www.COSCA.net. COSCA is on the move again with new things happening from our new website to our upcoming Grandfather Mountain Clan Caucus. We have good news from the Scottish highlands and some other bits and pieces from Scotland regarding the big doings in 2014. You will find it all below and over at COSCA.net. We hope to see you there, or on the games field this season. Enjoy!
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COSCA Launches A New Website
COSCA is delighted to announce the launch of our new website. We believe that our new site will prove to be a great home for many Scottish Americans and their organizations. It will improve our ability to communicate with all of you and to offer the services you have told us you need. If you take a look around the site, you can see what we have happening already and what we are working on. We are always open to your great suggestions. Take a peek at COSCA.net.
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Grandfather Mountain Scottish Clan Caucus
Registration Open Now
COSCA's Grandfather Mountain Scottish Clan Caucus will be held on Thursday July 11, 2013 at beautiful Lees McRae College at the foot of Grandfather Mountain in Banner Elk, North Carolina. The Clan Caucus is co-chaired by COSCA and the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs. SCSC Convener Sir Malcolm MacGregor will be on hand as well as other invited guests from America, Australia, Canada and of course, Scotland. We will be discussing the role of Scottish America within the global Scottish diaspora and our changing relationship with Scotland, her land, her government and her people.
Join us for this important conference to help us better understand and define who we are and where we would like the Scottish diaspora to proceed in the coming years. Registration is open now! Registration is limited so get your seat reserved now at: Grandfather Mountain Scottish Clan Caucus Registration
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 Highland Happenings
Scottish highland clans getting it together
Just a few weeks ago, a new group was formed and officially launched in the Scottish highlands. It is called the Association of Highland Clans & Societies, based in Inverness, and promising to do great things for the highland clan culture in the Highlands and Islands.
To begin, there are some very exciting plans on the table for events in 2014 - but not in the summer at Bannockburn. Rather, it will be the Highland Meeting and Highland Homecoming in Autumn of 2014. These are some of the events that the Scottish Homecoming 2014 team has been touting as reasons to come to Scotland in 2014. They have a good point. Read more here.
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 Bannockburn 2014
Some nuts and bolts details
It can be a bit difficult to get all the gritty details you need if you are planning to haul a clan association, banners, targes, flags, crests, maps, awards and such across the Atlantic ocean to set up a clan tent in Scotland - or if you are just hauling yourself, your husband and three excited kilted kids for a trip of a lifetime. Thanks to the good services of the Inverness based Association of Highland Clans & Societies we are now getting a few of the practical details of the Bannockburn 2014 experience that might be important from a participating clan perspective. Click here to find out more.
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That's all we have for you this time around. Be sure and head over to COSCA.net to check out the new site. You might be surprised at what's there and by golly all the links work! If you find something that doesn't work please tell us. Check back often as we grow and expand the website to reflect all of the great things COSCA is doing. Also, if you aren't already a 2013 COSCA member as an individual or an organization, please consider joining. Dues are painfully low right now and they won't be that way forever. Thanks as always for all of your support. Yours aye,
Susan L. McIntosh
President
Council of Scottish Clans & Associations
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RISE: An Anthem for Scots around the world
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Council Of Scottish Clans & Associations
COSCA was founded in 1976 by Dr. Herbert MacNeil and others for the purpose of bringing Scottish clan societies together. The initial meeting was held at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in Linville, NC and the organization continues to honor this tradition by gathering on the mountain annually. Today COSCA welcomes all kinds of Scottish American organizations as well as interested individuals.
COSCA's primary purpose is to preserve and promote the customs, traditions, and heritage of the Scottish people. We currently serve as a clearing house for Scottish American activities throughout the US. Through our many member clans and organizations, COSCA represents thousands of American Scots across the nation in furtherance of our mission. COSCA is also an active participant in The Scottish Coalition USA, a collective of several organizations united to serve the Scottish-American community through research, long-term planning, and promotion of Scottish heritage.
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