MacLachlan's Ozark Highlanders

23/01/2024

23/01/2024

English militia faces a highland charge (an internal dialogue).

23/01/2024

Wounded Highlanders fall prey to "King" George's militia (English and Highland Scot).

We had some free time after the hike, more pictures to come.

23/01/2024

Cock-a-leekie soup to warm up from the march

22/01/2024

Always give the English a proper reception!

22/01/2024

Beautiful view! But on to trail's end.

22/01/2024

What's the last thing to go through a distracted sentry's mind?

22/01/2024

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown...

22/01/2024

"Where a goat can go, a man can go..."

22/01/2024

Rearguard had to fight a little skirmish...

22/01/2024

Beginning our hike along the Buffalo River trail

20/01/2024

What do you think they're all looking at?

More pictures coming soon from our event Race to the River Esk.

P.S. hiking in snow, in highlands, in 18th C. shoes is quite difficult.

30/10/2023

29/10/2023

It was a very wet weekend, but we had a good time at the Arkansas Scottish Festival.

27/10/2023

Come out and see us at the Arkansas Scottish Festival tomorrow!

25/10/2023

Just another couple days and we'll be rolling in to the Arkansas Scottish Festival

Don't let the forecast deter you. Kilts are made for wet weather.

11/10/2023

Who is ready to join us at the Arkansas Scottish Festival ? We're just over two weeks out! (No Hanoverians were harmed in the making of this picture...yet)

18/09/2023

Work got delayed last minute this morning, and this 50° weather was too good to pass up.

11/09/2023

Weather is finally cool enough to get out and walk again!

10/09/2023

Something a little different from our kilts and swords, some of us will be participating in the Fort Smith Fall Festival in a couple weeks, if you're in the area you should come out!

Stay tuned for our October schedule, we have a couple events coming up (and we'll be back in kilts for that!)

09/09/2023

Having fun at the Southwest Missouri Celtic Festival

09/09/2023

MacLachlans is at the Southwest Missouri Celtic Festival!

08/09/2023

Driving through the Ozark Highlands, through rain and fog, listening to bagpipes and packed for the Southwest Missouri Celtic Festival.

Hope to see y'all there!

02/09/2023

We'll be at the Southwest Missouri Celtic Festival next Saturday! Make sure to come out and see us!

14/07/2023

Because this bears reiterating...

Yeah, you should hear when our discussions really get going...

08/06/2023

It's been awhile since I've posted, it's been too warm for my walks, but I couldn't wait to show off my brand new coat. This coat is a lighter weight wool than my broadcloth, so I should be more comfortable on some warmer days for walks. I'm still not going for a walk in this kit again until September at least, even with this beautiful new coat to show off.

17/04/2023

277 years ago today was the Battle of Culloden Moor (or is it? But that's a discussion for 11 days from now). This marked the end of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, and ultimately the end of the Stuart attempts to reclaim the thrones of Scotland and England.

06/04/2023

"The Prince (Charles) said he expected Donald MacDonald alias Donald Roy to come to him; but he not coming, the Prince asked Captain MacLeod if he was a stout walker? and if he could walk bare-footed? The Captain replied he was pretty good at walking, and that he could travell bare-footed very well. The Prince told him by bare-footed he meant, if he could walk in his shoes without stockings, 'for,' said he, 'that is the way I used to walk at my diversions in Italy.' The Captain said he could not really tell if he could do that or not, for that he had never tried it."

I have tried it, for a couple miles. It was actually more comfortable than expected, but I did slip on some socks for the other couple miles.

06/04/2023

Happy Tartan Day! I came home from a 4 mile walk to find 2 newborn lambs!