Lanark Days & Carmichael Estate

The city of Lanark has been celebrating Lanark Days for the last 950 years. It began as a means to mark out the territory of the city boundaries and has now just become a festival for community spirit. The village of Carmichael exists because of Clan Carmichael. Historically the Clan chief or Laird owned all the land and the local people worked the land. The Carmichael Clan still has a very large estate and they have a very nice museum and exibit grounds open to the public. The children are "pretending" to be William Wallace and Mary Queen of Scots.