International Tartan Day 2018
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Tartan Days are celebrations of Scottish heritage. Beginning on April 6, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
It has it's beginnings in Canada of the mid-1980s and spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s.
Today we celebrate the Austrailian version called International Tartan Day is held on July 1, which corresponds to the date upon which the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan was repealed.
Tartan Days usually feature parades of pipe bands with Highland dancing, traditional games of strength, and other Scottish cultural entertainment.
I usually simply admire from afar as I am doing this year.