Take a walk down “Celtic Ways” featuring:

• Workshops on Celtic art
• Artisans demonstrating their craft 
• Discover your Scottish roots with the St. Andrew Society
• Gaelic Mass Ethnic and traditional food vendors

Irish Linen & Wool Worker Demonstrations
The fame of Irish linen and wool is widespread, but how are these two products made?  Observe the process from beginning to end as the workers use authentic tools to change dull-looking fibers to glorious fabrics before your eyes.

Tim and Katheleen Nealeigh will use authentic 19th century tools to produce world-famous Irish linen and wool.  Linen begins as the humble flax plant which is pulled up, retted, dried, scutched, hackled, and spun into linen thread. The linen fabric is then woven using a loom from the 1850's. Wool is shorn, picked, carded or flicked, and spun into yarn.  A delightful, informative running commentary during the continuous demonstration will provide the human touch to these nearly forgotten skills.

Clan Desdin   
A group portraying a historical re-enactment of Highland Scots newly arrived in the Colonies. They will camp next to the river in a period-correct 18^th Scottish camp.  They will demonstrate authentic 18^th century cooking skills, break out into sword fights, interact with the public, perform improvs and small skits depicting typical Scottish behavior and historical scenes, crafting exhibits, and conduct conversations with the public answeringquestions and explaining the connection between the Scots and the early Appalachians who inhabited this area.