Wally and Keith Turnbull under the Turnbull tartan on the "Rathad Breacan"

The 2004 Missouri Tartan Day celebration closed on Sunday morning with a moving Kirkin' of the Tartans" at St. Charles Presbyterian Church.  A “kirk” in Scotland is a church and a “kirking'” is a ceremony where tartans are taken to the kirk to be blessed by the minister.  During the oppression of the Scots by the English when all emblems of Scottish identity such as speaking Gaelic, playing bagpipes and wearing of tartans were forbidden, Scots kept the kirkin’ tradition alive by bringing a scrap of tartan cloth to church hidden in a coat pocket and placing their hands on the pocket during the blessing.  Kirkin’ was brought to the United States in 1941 by Peter Marshall when he was chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

Happy Birthday

Wally Turnbull, Sarah Snow, Fred Turnbull, Morris Turnbull, Mary Ellen Longley, Joyce Marot, Leroy Trimble, June Quevillon, Andrzej Przed-pelski, John Kutzmanis, James P. Trimble, Robert Bable, Leslie Turnbull, Janis Dairiki, Brian Turnbull, Valeria Ann Turnbull, John W. Turnbull, Maryle Samms, Sarah Turnbull, Allen Turnbull.

Welcome

Matthew Turnbull a new Cadet sponsored by his Uncle Peter Turnbull.

Time Flies

By Dawn Day
Our family lived in a small village, called Allendale, when I was young. My dad, Alf Turnbull, used to ride his pushbike around 80 kilometers to work in a pine forest, at Mount Burr.  He would leave on Sunday afternoon after doing his chores in the garden. He carried his saws that he had sharpened during the weekend and his weekly food rations in a wooden box on his back. He worked in a team that felled pines all week. When the

pines were down they carried them on their shoulders to a clearing and loaded them onto a waiting truck which took them to the saw-mill. On Friday night he would ride the 80 or so kilometers home. I was little at the time and I would watch for his coming. It would be dark by the time he came over the hill, he had a carbide light on his bike and I would be just able to see it and I would run to tell Mum. She would have time then to get his tea ready. Ah! The memories come flooding back when you start to tell your story.

Allendale according to the nice booklet sent by Dawn, is south of Mount Gambia and is famous for its cave in the middle of the main street.

The road divides and goes around the cave. Allendale sinkhole was once a watering point for stock and horses. There were attempts to fill the sinkhole to no avail. Legend has it that the sinkhole swallowed up a horse and carriage along with its driver and that ghostly figures appear over the water near Port MacDonald, which is considered as an exit of the underground water systems. Qualified divers can obtain diving permits to explore the sinkhole.

Folklore: King Arthur and the mysterious places.

Adderley Edge is located near Macclesfield, Cheshire, Northern England.  The Edge was probably the home of the earliest inhabitants in this area. Primitive tools found there suggest that man lived in the caves perhaps as far back as 6,000 years ago. Pristine wooded area with sandstone cliffs and caves provides two miles of beautiful scenic view.

As the fable goes, deep in the woods there is a sandstone cliff behind which Merlin the wizard hid King Arthur and his sleeping men. Now mind you there are two stories which we are going to look at, you can believe or not which ever one seems most logical.

So, the local story is as follows: A farmer on his way to the Macclesfield market to sell his white