Word: holmdel
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Seven years ago the New Jersey clans decided to commemorate their forbears' arrival. The celebration was held not on the site of Old Scots itself but in the neighboring hamlet of Holmdel, where at Scot Theron McCampbell's sylvan Forum estate there was ample elbow room for such Scottish high jinks as sword dancing, piping and tossing the caber. Holmdel's first Scottish Games became an annual event, and with the passing of the years Scots from far beyond New Jersey's glens came to witness them, and such famed pipers as the late Angus MacMillan...
Near Red Bank, N. J., on the estate of Amory L. Haskell, Temple Gwathmey, 23-year-old gentleman rider and socialite, was thrown by his horse Brown Ruler in the Holmdel Steeplechase. Rushed to a hos pital, he soon died of a broken neck...