Scotland_County_Highland_Games
The Scotland County Highland Games, or SCHG, are a Scottish event held in Laurinburg, North Carolina, United States. Each year, the games are held the first weekend of October at the John Blue House and Grounds in Laurinburg. The event was started in 2009 after the Flora MacDonald Games in Red Springs, North Carolina were discontinued.[1]
The event fits the area,[according to whom?] as Scotland County was settled by Highlander Scots and continues to have one of the largest concentrations of Highland Scots in North America.[2] The games serve as a premier celebration of Scottish and Celtic cultures in the Upper Cape Fear and Pee Dee regions.
There were no games held in 2020-21, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.