HARRIS TWEED® JOURNAL Finding Inspiration 13TH AUGUST It is good to know we are not the only ones who dream about our very own Harris Tweed® cloth design! Beth Spallanzani from Bristol – one of our Facebook followers – was inspired by our posts to write a poem imagining a tweed named after herself. What’s […]
Feast of Juul The Feast of Juul was a pre-Christian festival observed in Scandinavia at the time of the December solstice. Fires were lit to symbolize the heat, light and life-giving properties of the returning sun. A Yule or Juul log was brought in and burned on the hearth in honor of the Scandinavian god […]
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Lords of the Seas is heading to the Dayton Celtic Festival in Dayton, Ohio this coming weekend, July 29-31, 2016. What a Festival this will be! Incredible music…check out Gaelic Storm on YouTube with their song Johnny Jump Up! One of our main purposes at the Festival is to help the Irish and Scottish attendees […]
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The Scandinavian Folk Festival occurred on Sunday, July 17th at the Gerry Rodeo Grounds, in Gerry, NY. It was awesome to celebrate your Nordic Heritage with Danes, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, and Estonians, I’m not sure if there were Icelanders attending. Lots of fun for the family, with Children’s Crafts, Adult Craft instructional lessons of Nordic […]
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Scandinavian Folk Festival Calling all Vikings…Scottish Highlanders, Ireland East Coast Irish, Outer Islands of Scotland, and all who consider themselves Viking! Lords of the Seas will be at a Viking/Scandinavian Festival with Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, and Danes to celebrate Mid-Summer (Summer solstice) on Sunday, July 17th at the Gerry Rodeo Grounds, Gerry NY. You can email us […]
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Lords of the Seas was able to provide inscribed authentic whisky glasses for the Charlotte based McIntosh Law Firm’s fundraising event. The story unfolds as such: The McIntosh Law Firm of Charlotte was sponsoring a Fundraising Dinner entitled Rural Hill Scotch Dinner presented by Glenfiddich for Historic Rural Hill, a non-profit historic site in North […]
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This year, the Alma Highland’s Festival honored clan was the Tartan of the State of Michigan. Who else would exemplify the tartan more than a drum major? This drum major sewed her kilt and sash with the State of Michigan tartan cloth. Not only did she use 11 1/2 yards of tartan for her kilt, […]
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Arriving in Tennessee for the Smoky Mountain Highland Games and Festival, one can feel the difference of being in Tennessee. Tall green grass, lush flowers, trees fully leafed…nature’s perfect picture. Across from the Tennessee Welcome Center… A huge guitar sign advertising a music store. You start thinking of Nashville, Grand Ole Opry, Pigeon Forge (Dolly […]
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