MINNESOTA TARTAN DAY CELEBRATION
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Tartan Day Coordinator Babs Humphrey!
Contents:
Tartan Day MN News
2001 Mac Fair Photo Gallery
See the Minnesota Tartans
2001 Tartan Day MN Photo Gallery
2000 Tartan
Day MN Photo Gallery 1999 Tartan Day MN Photo Gallery
Excerpt from the Declaration of
Arbroath (© Daniel Taber Studios) 2001
Scottish Ramble Photo Gallery
2000 Governor's Proclamation 1999 Governor's Proclamation
Links to other Tartan Day sites About
the Minnesota Tartan Day Cooperative
Order
Minnesota Tartan fabric here! (The Shetland Piper)
E-mail Babs Humphrey for details, and see the top of this page for a fuzzy .gif of the design by Minnesota native Jack Barker.
At precisely noon CST, February 4, 2002, the Minnesota Senate approved Senate Resolution No. 164 designating the Minnesota Tartan and Dress Tartan as the official tartans of our state. Sen. Gen Olson, the chief sponsor, asked for a roll call vote and the vote tally was 60 (of 67) for, 0 against.
The senators were in a jolly mood as they filed into the chamber. Corsages and boutonnières with sprigs of heather and thistle were pinned onto the senators and they were each given a commemorative Minnesota Tartan, Feb. 4, 2002 button, along with information about the Minnesota Tartan Day Cooperative members, how to order the tartan, and the legend of the colors.
Resolution sponsors Sen. Gen Olson, Sen. Ellen Anderson, Sen. Jane Ranum, and Sen. Sheila Kiskaden, with representatives from the Minnesota Tartan Project.
In a fitting tribute to designer Mark Osweiler, Sen. Roger D. Moe, Senate Majority leader, commented as he looked at a sample of the tartan, "It's beautiful. Oh, I'm so glad it's not ugly." No, Senator Moe, far from it. It is gorgeous! Thank you, Mark.
It was a great day for all Minnesotans and particularly those within the Scottish community. Special thanks to Jackie Johnston, Minnesota Tartan Project Coordinator—she knew how to get the job done. Not bad for a Norwegian/Polish lass with not a drop of Scottish blood.
Thanks must also be extended to Mark and Nydia Osweiler, Mary Libhardt, and Kelly Bray for producing the floral arrangements and the buttons. Along with Richard Cady, they were the tartan design team. A friend who watched the proceedings at home commented on what a nice touch the heather was, "You guys are a class act," he said. Thanks also to Stuart Hoarn, whose family's foundation funded the development of the Minnesota Tartan.
Babs Humphrey, Mary Libhardt, Jackie Johnston, Mark Osweiler, Nydia Osweiler, and Stuart Hoarn of the Minnesota Tartan Project.
And last but not least, thanks also to piper Sean McRoberts (who piped where no man has piped before), for bringing that extra touch of Scotland to the Minnesota State Capitol.
Macalester College Scottish Country Fair & Highland Games
Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (Twin Cities Branch)
Click here for additional information about Tartan Day sponsors.
Scottish Online Tartan Day site
Washington (DC) Tartan Day Celebration
The Clans & Tartans of Scotland
Registry of All Publicly Known Tartans
The Minnesota Tartan Day Cooperative is a group sponsored by a number of Scottish-American organizations in Minnesota. Its goal is to promote awareness of the nation-wide Tartan Day holiday, Scottish heritage in Minnesota, and the vital role that Scottish-Americans have played in our state. Since 1999, citizens of Minnesota have gathered every year on April 6th (the anniversary of the Scottish Declaration of Independence in 1320) at the State Capitol in St. Paul to publicly recognize the contributions of "Scottish-Minnesotans."
We encourage all Minnesotans, whether Scots or not, to join us for this exciting event. And if you can't attend in person, be sure to wear your tartan (preferably kilt, of course) and Tartan Day Button!
For more information about how you can participate in Tartan Day, contact Babs Humphrey, Minnesota Tartan Day Coordinator – (612) 869-7163.
In no particular order...
Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans
William Bruce, President
Email wthebruce@bitstream.net
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visitors to this site since January 21st, 2001!
Web site design by Jack
A. Barker. All contents ©1999–2002 by the Minnesota Tartan Day
Cooperative, except where noted.
Last modified: September 3rd, 2002. This web site is a service of the Minnesota
Tartan Day Cooperative.
P.S. The reason the background of this site isn't the Minnesota tartan is
'cause then you wouldn't be able to read anything. Sorry!
