It is also hoped, if we can generate enough sponsorship, that there will be a demonstration by an original Second World War MKII Spitfire. All profits from the event will go towards the building of a new Erskine Hospital in Edinburgh. Erskine Hospital was established on the outskirts of Glasgow during the Great War to care for limbless ex-servicemen and since 1916 it has looked after more than 60,000 men and women. To satisfy the need the Hospital has launched an appeal to raise money to open a 40 bed satellite nursing home on the outskirts of Edinburgh which, it is hoped, will open in the Spring of 2001. Each year on the second full weekend in July, Americans and Canadians of Scottish ancestry, indeed many native Scots, gather on the slopes of mile high Grandfather Mountain near Linville, North Carolina USA to celebrate their heritage.
Burly men toss the caber and throw the hammer midst the sound of pipes .
The tartan clad crowd is enchanted by the Highland fling and the melodious sounds of the Scottish Harp and lively tunes on the Scottish Fiddle. Tis a proud heritage and annually celebrated with good fellowship and great enjoyment. The Clan Hamilton Society will celebrate its silver anniversary at the 2000 Grandfather Mountain Games. In 1971 a group of Hamiltons and some Hamilton ancestry, who regularly gathered at the games, started the process of organizing a Clan Hamilton Society. The effort bore fruit in 1975, when the Duke of Hamilton gave his permission for the Clan Society.