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A Gift at New Year: Reclaiming Scottish Hogmanay |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: B.R. Forbes |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,240 Words, 13,977 Characters |
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If tradition is truly handed down from one generation to the next, at this moment I would be warm, indoors, nibbling little egg-and-olive crustless sandwiches, singing "Auld Lang Syne" with Guy Lombardo on the TV, and toasting the New Year with ginger ale, as if I were eight years old again.
Or if tradition is a shared cultural experience, then I would be spilling my generic dance-club champagne on my gyrating partner and anticipating the midnight kiss that could well last until dawn. Or I would be dashing from a folk music concert, past melting ice sculptures, to city hall for First Night fireworks.
Instead I choose this doorstep, at this time, for this particular reinvention of Hogmanay--New Year's Eve with a Scottish brogue.
A tenth-generation Scots American celebrating a uniq...
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.../s/scot-hog.htm), offers a brief history and a summary of events happening around Scotland.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay, the world's largest Hogmanay celebration, has its own Web page (http://www.edinburghshogmanay.org/), which includes photos, a calendar of events, contact information for tickets, map of events, travel and safety tips, suggestions for accommodations, history, and more.----B.R.F.
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