Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Tartan Day - April 6th



The Munroe tartan



These photos are from the  Munro Clan booth at the New Hampshire Highland Games, Loon Mountain, 2006. For more information on my Munroe lineage click on the keyword MUNROE in the right column of this blog page or see these posts
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/06/surname-saturday-munroe-of-lexington.html
and
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/11/google-your-way-to-quilt-sometimes.html

The New Hampshire State Tartan is


items with the NH tartan can be bought at http://www.standrewsocietynh.org/newsasnh_014.htm

The purple represents our state bird and our state flower - the purple finch and the purple lilac, the green our forests, the black our granite, the white our mountains and the red our New Hampshire heroes.

You can read all about Tartan Day here:  http://www.tartanday.org/about

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

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