Scottish Walk of Alexandria


December 1997:
My father and I have never been especially close, as he was gone on business trips for most of my childhood. But one of my clearest and fondest memories of something he and I shared was the Alexandria Christmas Scottish Walk. It began almost 200 years ago, when people would go door to do to vendors to sell lavender and other items. It evolved into a walk that the entire town and much of Scottish population of the East Coast comes out to. My father bought me a tin whistle at the first, and a flag of Scotland at the next. During middle school when I became even more interested in Scottish culture, we began going again. Some years it would just be me and my father. Other years, I’d bring friends. Now at college, I miss out on the walk, the first weekend in December, but I am hoping to one day make it a permanently annual event.