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The Capital Scot ®

At The Capital Scot you will find information about Scottish heritage, Scotland, and organizations and events of interest to Scots and Scots-at-heart living and working in the Washington, D.C. area.  You will access links to information about Scottish places of interest, Scotland's history, clans, societies, book reviews, the Reformation in Scotland, the Scottish Literary Forum, a variety of articles, Scottish holidays, and genealogy research.  See more information about this non-commercial site at "About".

Last update: 5/11/08       Features of the Week       New Items       Not Necessarily Scottish      

Features of the Week - -

  New This Week!        
Scotland's athletes go to the Olympics         
Browse maps of Scotland         Petition - Designation of Loch Ness as a World Heritage Site     
Spouse witness law to be scrapped - A law which allows people to refuse to testify against their partners or spouses in court is set to be scrapped.         
Gordon Brown has pledged to do 'whatever is necessary' to preserve the United Kingdom in the face of demands for Scottish independence.     
The Gazetteer for Scotland has added more features.  Especially interesting is their history timeline.     

Ayshire Cancer Support is selling a fundraiser 2009 Calendar with beautiful views of Ayrshire produced to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns.  All photographs in the calendar relate to Robert Burns in Ayrshire and each one is accompanied by an appropriate line of verse. [fourth week]

Regular Weekly Features:     Scottish Holidays and Anniversaries  [updated monthly]       This week's Scottish Snippets  [updated biweekly]      Significant Scottish Heritage Events in Scotland        

  items this week are on the following pages:

Events (Reminder  May 14, Transplanting Scottish Culture in America)      Events (Reminder  May 16-17 Gatlinburg (Tennessee) Scottish Festival and Games)     

Not Necessarily Scottish - -

Memorial Day - end of May

Thursday May 15 at 6:30 p.m. Arthur Herman will discuss and sign his new book, Gandhi and Churchill, The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed and Empire and Forged our Age, at Borders at 18th & L Streets in downtown DC.

Find the Nonconformist in your family tree at the UK National Archives.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work.  Prayer is the greater work.  - Oswald Chambers

May 14 - Citizens for the Classics Spring Meeting, 7:00 p.m., Yorktown High School Faculty Lounge, 5201 N. 28th St., Arlington, VA 22207.  Our agenda will include the following items:
  Latin curriculum in Arlington Public Schools.  Guest speakers are: Mary Ann Ullrich, Supervisor, Foreign Language Office, Arlington Public Schools, and Kevin Gushman, Latin Teacher, Yorktown High School
  Election of officers for  2008-2009.  Self-nominations (i.e. volunteers) are welcome and needed.  Your Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer have each served CFTC for many years.  Each would be delighted if some fresh face would volunteer for his/her job.  (Your President is a newcomer.)
  CFTC's table at the Arlington County Fair, 7-10 August 2008.  We need 2 or 3 hours of your time at the Fair to make this a success!
  Park in the parking lot along N. 28th St., enter at the main entrance, then turn right.  The Faculty Lounge is on the left of the hallway, opposite the main office.  Our SPQR banner will be at the lounge door.  Ann Hafer, President

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy - happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc, without character  - Zig Ziglar

A favorite quote from fiction:  "I am Connor Macleod of the Clan Macleod.  I was born in the year 1518 in Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Schiel.  I cannot die.  I am immortal."  (From the movie The Highlander)

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The Capital Scot ® is published by Jim MacGregor, FSA Scot, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland