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24th Annual Robert Burns' Dinner and Ball
Scottish Society of Mobile Invites you to attend the 24th Robert Burns Annual Supper and Ball
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Location: Mobile Marriott
3101 Airport Blvd.
Mobile, AL 36606
Doors open at 5:30pm with the seating of The Company at 6:30pm
The evening includes; fine dining, live Celtic music, dancing, and a raffle with proceeds going to support the Scottish Society of Mobile's scholarship fund.
Prepaid reservations are required By January 14, 2012
Formal attire required (Suitable Scottish Attire, or tuxedo, or suit & tie for men. Floor length dresses for women)
Tickets are $50.00 for members and $60.00 for non-members
Make checks payable to:
The Scottish Society of Mobile
1301 Alba Beach Road
Mobile, AL 36605
For more information Contact:
Randy Seale: 251-421-7027 or seale@bellsouth.net
Irene Troy: 251-473-6990 or troy_i@bellsouth.net
Alabama's Link to Scotland
Alabama has the second largest population of people of Scottish heritage in the USA. In part the Alabama flag design was selected because the St. Andrews cross was a "Christian symbol, the symbol of truth, honor, courage, and defiance against tyranny, and is never ending."
Some debate has arisen lately over the source of the original design of the Alabama State Flag. When in doubt, read the instructions: “The Alabama State Flag was authorized by the Alabama Legislature on February 16, 1895, by Act number 383. According to the Acts of Alabama, 1895, the state flag was to be a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white. The bars forming the cross were not to be less than six inches broad and were to extend diagonally across the flag from side to side. The act did not designate a square or a rectangular flag.”
A small but vocal group has been trying to rewrite the history of the Alabama flag to claim Irish origins rather than Scottish. The State of Alabama flag has absolutely no connection whatsoever with the so called "flag of St. Patrick", which was in fact, never used by St. Patrick, but was an invention of the English occupiers of Ireland and was created to be used in the regalia of the newly created Order of Saint Patrick, established in 1783 as the premier chivalric order of the Kingdom of Ireland, and later in the arms and flags of a number of institutions.
Even on the Emerald Isle, and on St. Patrick's Day no less, this flag is not widely flown by Irish people who, for the most part, do not recognize it as their own. It is seen as a British symbol, and is used by regiments of the British Army. The flag was first designed by British authorities in Dublin Castle in the 17th century as a counterpart to the English St. George's Cross. The flag also forms part of the coat of arms of the then powerful Duke of Leinster, the premier peer in the Irish House of Lords.