Scottish Walk, Part 2

The Scottish Walk parade is actually part of the fund raising activities for the Compagna Center in Alexandria, which is a child literacy advocate. They run a number of programs that are intended to help prepare kids for success in school.

In addition to the parade, the center has a Christmas Market in town on Scottish Walk weekend. This year, the market was held in the Masonic Memorial - even though we live only five blocks from this monument, the opportunity to go inside is very rare, so we decided to go to the market after the parade.

The building honors George Washington, and there are some unique exhibits about him there, including this bust.

The rest of the ground floor meeting rooms were used for the Christmas Market - here are some views. Not viewable here are the etchings and artwork of other Masonic facilities that line these hallways. The Masons had an extensive building program centered more or less on the turn of the 20th Century - many of those incredible buildings are documented here.

Also, outside, there was an herbal cuttings area. They were sold out as we were leaving, but during the parade, many of the marchers were wearing bouquets of heather, obtained from here.