points of view » Events http://andrew-mel-garland.com our perspective on things Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:50:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Highlander Festival http://andrew-mel-garland.com/pictures/highlander-festival/ http://andrew-mel-garland.com/pictures/highlander-festival/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:16:45 +0000 Andrew http://andrew-mel-garland.com/?p=292 Continue reading →]]> My family came to visit during the second week of October. That weekend was also the annual Highlander Festival at Radford University. There are annual “highlander games,” which seem to center around throwing heavy,  unwieldy objects as far as possible. See the picture below for a guy trying to throw a 20′ pole.

There are dozens of vendors and exhibitors. The best two, in my opinion, were the falconer and the sheepherder. The sheep dogs were amazing. With slight commands they could manuver sheep through obstacles and control them, even with a crowd of people around.

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