Bring pillow case, cloth bag or T-shirt (white shirts available for purchase). Create your own ocean-themed fashion Tee, pillow or bag. Completed houses will be on display at Panorama Recreation Centre starting December 1. Purchase a family/ friends gingerbread entry for $15 (including kit) or business/organization for $50. Have loads of fun building a Gingerbread House throughout the month to benefit CFAX Santas Anonymous. A wonderful opportunity for kids, teens and adults to work together for a humanitarian cause. He lives with his wife Gwen and family in Central Ortega in New Zealand where there are, he says, more McTavishes than in Scotland.Īnd he sees parallels between his character’s stories and those of present day Scotland.Information gathered by Doreen Marion Gee –ĭecember 1 to 31: Gingerbread House Challenge. He has traced his family tree to Achahoish in Argyll and Hawick in the Borders, but also recounts tales of his Edinburgh grandad walking 40 miles to Glasgow for work. Like many of those in New York at the weekend, Graham admits he feels the pull of his roots tighten the longer and farther he is away. “They’d follow you to the ends of the earth.” I’ve no idea how they find us, but there have been times when fans from all over the work have turned up on location when we’re filming in the middle of the Scottish wilderness with home baking. “The fandom of The Hobbit is intense and I’d never experienced anything like it. Then they told me the books had sold 25million copies. He said: “I hadn’t even heard of Outlander before I went up for the part. Graham, who also features in the film version of JRR Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit, admits it all took a bit of getting used to. The show has even introduced the Gaelic language to an international audience and shouts of, “Soar Alba” rang out during Saturday’s parade.Ī fan club have been set up for Graham, who plays swashbuckling Dougal Mackenzie, and he was mobbed by fans during his Record Fifth Avenue photoshoot. The member tribes of Outlandish United – an umbrella group bringing together the Outlander fanclubs – have been brought together in love for a Scotland some have read about in history books, while others have been seduced by the rugged romance of Diana Gabaldon’s historical time-travelling tales, which jump from the days of the Jacobites to the early 1900s. We told yesterday how hundreds of Outlander fans descended on New York to march in the parade. One New Yorker told us Tartan Week was like Paddy’s Day, only with better manners.Įither way, with Scottish-themed events spread across New York from a celebration of Scottish street style in hipster-HQ Williamsburg, to the melancholic strains of the Oban High School pipe band playing in the Bryant Park sunshine in mid-town Manhattan, there’s been a kilt around every NYC corner all week. “My only regret is that my parents Alec and Ellen weren’t alive to see me marching all these Scots through New York. “And the sound of the pipes in Manhattan alone is like Scotland to the max. Speaking to the Record at the HQ of Outlander production company Starz off Fifth Avenue, ahead of the Parade, Graham said: “The diaspora of the Scottish community is so strong in places like this. Graham came face to face with fans who had flown from all over America to march up Sixth Avenue behind their unlikely idol in a bagpipe and tartan-heavy procession of traditional Scottishness.Īnd despite leaving his homeland with his family when he was a kid, the big actor admitted he never felt more Scottish than last weekend. The 54-year-old Glasgow-born actor was celebrating his heritage at New York’s Tartan Day Parade on Saturday as the Parade’s 17th Grand Marshall. HE’s the New Zealand actor with an English accent and an army of fans across America.īut Outlander star Graham McTavish says he couldn’t feel more Scottish.
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