- September 21, 2024
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Joyce and Bill Wartinbee head into the event.
Scottish decorations were everywhere.
Becky and Larry Lohr
Alan and Peggy Emerick
Jim and Diane Saul
In total, 160 people attended.
Sharon Kincaid and Marilyn Rice
Dick and Carol McLaughlin and Joan Repoeg
Scottish bread awaited diners as an appetizer
Attendees sat at long tables to be able to face the upcoming entertainment
Pat Bergman and Diana Neely
The entrance to the Enchanted Forest Dining Hall
The Riverview Scottish dancers warm up before their performance.
The Rev. Norman Pritchard and Gary Reinstrom
Joan and Norman Pritchard
Karen and Rob Jennings and Jay Smith
The band warms up
Prior to dinner, everyone took a shot of Scottish whiskey
Norman Pritchard downs his whiskey.
The haggis is served.
Gary Reinstrom plays his way out of the dining room.
Dinner comes out in waves.
Whit and Cathy Daily serve dinner.
At Christ Church of Longboat Key, dinner guests stepped through a forest door and into Scotland for an evening on Feb. 21.
The church hosted 160 people for dinner, which included shepherd’s pie, and transformed the gathering hall into a Scottish site for the night. Attendees ate, drank and talked like Scotsmen with haggis, Scottish whiskey and classic poems from the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns.
The Rev. Norman Pritchard, who is Scottish, read Burns’ “Address to a Haggis,” and diners could follow along with both the original Scottish writing or an English “translation.” Not everyone tried the haggis, but volunteers swooped around with platters so any who wanted some would not go without.
After dinner, attendees heard bagpipes from the Jacobite Ceilidh Band from Sarasota and saw the talents of the Riverview High School Scottish dancers.
