News from the 2009 Annual General Meeting
Gatlinburg Tennessee Scottish Festival & Games
May 15 - 17, 2009

- Leardership Update

Where are brothers Craig & Skippy Keith??

The United Methodist Children's Home in Decatur, GA is planning a reunion of people who grew up there in the 60's and 70's.
They would be in their fifties now. Please contact Debora Burger at: maxxben[at]mindspring[dot]com .

FAMOUS KEITHS SPOTLIGHT

WILLIAM KEITH (1838-1911)
Painter and Conservationist

William Keith was the leading artist in San Francisco and perhaps California's most highly regarded painter at the end of the nineteenth century. A longtime friend of fellow Scot and California naturalist John Muir, the pair were instrumental in the foundation of the U.S. National Parks System and the Sierra Club.

Born Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, he came to New York City in 1851, where he learned wood engraving and did illustrations for Harper's Weekly. He moved to San Francisco in 1860 and later turned to painting, studying in Düsseldorf in 1870 and in Munich in the 1880s. His Western landscapes evolved from early mountain epics to later intimate natural scenes. The Keith Memorial Gallery of the Oakland Art Museum is devoted entirely to his work, and another extensive collection is owned by Saint Mary's College of California.

Sources: Columbia Encyclopedia , Sixth Edition, 2005; Painted Essays: William Keith's Landscapes of the West , Saint Mary's College of California

The Clan Keith Society USA, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to promote education and fellowship for individuals and families living in the United States whose ancestry trace back to one of Scotland's oldest and most illustrious clans.

Among the family names associated with Clan Keith are Austin, Dickson, Dixon, Falconer, Faulkner and Marshall. [See our list of septs]

We have sister societies in Canada, and Australia/New Zealand. We are also honored to have our own official band, the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band from Seattle, Washington.