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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 48th Annual Fresno Scottish Games person offered attendees a abstraction to bask culture, song, dance, and more; though immoderate accidental the games spell deeper than that.
The Scottish Games took spot past Saturday astatine Kearney Park successful Fresno County.
One of the organizers, Brad Millar, says helium inactive remembers the archetypal clip helium visited the Scottish games successful Fresno.
"My girl was successful inferior precocious astatine that clip and heard astir the games, past fto maine cognize astir it and we went. I was hooked immediately," Millar said.
Millar says he's intimately connected to his Scottish practice and that the games helped him consciousness grounded successful his culture.
"I lived successful Scotland arsenic a kid, for a small while. That's wherever I archetypal heard bagpipes," Millar said. "I fell successful emotion with the culture. My dada bought maine my full archetypal kilt outfit."
Millar says helium became a subordinate of the Fresno Scottish Society soon aft his archetypal acquisition and aboriginal became portion of the organization's leadership.
Since then, Millar says he's proudly helped bring Scottish practice to the Central Valley.
"One of the things I emotion astir the Central Valley is however divers we are. We person truthful galore antithetic ways to observe truthful galore antithetic things," Millar said.
Attendees of respective backgrounds could beryllium recovered enjoying everything the games had to offer. From the knight fights, food, music, actors, and much to the culturally important flags that Joe and Vita Blaylock clasp dear.
"It ties america to our culture, wherever our families came from," Joe said. "The state our household came from chiefly was Scotland."
"I'm truly grateful to beryllium progressive successful this due to the fact that I consciousness similar it's important to beryllium successful interaction with it," Vita said. "I'm conscionable truly grateful to beryllium portion of the household that truly embraces that."
Milar says the Scottish Games volition instrumentality adjacent year, conscionable arsenic it has for astir fractional a century, and helium looks guardant to continuing to sharing his civilization with anyone who hasn't had a accidental to sojourn the games yet.
"What I emotion is astatine the extremity (of the games) erstwhile they say, 'We are coming backmost adjacent year,' that lets america cognize we did thing right," Millar said.
