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Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: Welsh Place Names Anagram Quiz 2 - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:23:09 +0100

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Here is the ultimate time waster for anyone stuck indoors with nothing to do. Each clue contains an anagram of the name of a Welsh town, village, castle or beauty spot. All you have to do is work out the location. The solutions may include Welsh place names with one or more words. Feel free to cheat if you get stuck, the answers can be found here:-
Welsh Place Names Anagram Quiz Answers
You can also click on individual clues to reveal single answers.
Pob lwc and please let us know how you got on in comments below.

1. A Dull Ogle

2. Marcher Ant

3. Thawed Fervors

4. Rabid Filled Wen

5. Ale Sold Nil

6. A Tangible Effusion

7. Roomier Pint

8. A Bland Larch

9. Part Blotto

10. Panda Turd Oils

Roman Wales: Subway Map of Roman Road System - @ceri-shaw

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:23:25 +0100

The Roman Roads of Britain laid out in an underground-style map created by Sasha Trubetskoy, a student studying statistics at the University of Chicago.
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-features-subway-style-roman-13546093

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: Mabinogi II The less serious quiz - @americymru

Sat, 11 Mar 2017 04:36:06 +0000

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All questions supplied by Shan Morgain of Mabinogi Study.
http://www.mabinogistudy.com
Check the PDF (linked below) for the correct answers.
DOWNLOAD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (PDF)
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1. How do you pronounce Pwyll?

a. PW OY CKC The final sound is made by doing a somersault in the back of the throat.
b. POOH HICK Imagine an enormous hiccup, which starts with pooh bear.
c. PWEE EEEL Well if your voice is English and you’ve never heard a Welsh person speak,
you’re forgiven.

2. How many branches are in the Mabinogi?

a. Actually there are about 12 stories in the Branches if you bother to count so 12.
b. Four because I’ve heard of the Four Branches. Weird trees they have in Wales.
c. Eleven. Or twelve if you include Taliesin.

3. What is odd about Rhiannon’s way of riding a horse?

a. She sits sideways as if on an armchair, ladylike style but at risk of falling off. That’s why
the horse doesn’t move.
b. She gets lost an awful lot which is why Pwyll has to keep sending guys after her to find
her.
c. She gets stuck in a timewarp so she doesn’t move hardly at all but you can’t catch her
even at warp speed 9.

4. What is the name of Rhiannon’s son?

a. Pryderi. Rhiannon was in a flap when he came back to her and told him off for causing
her grief.
b. Gwri Goldenhair – not many people know this. But he got a lot of flak at school for it, so
his mum home educated.
c. Mabon. All the other names are just frontnames for the deep magic name as a god.

5. Where did Bran normally sleep at night?

a. He slept with his seven giant Maine Coon cats and believe me there wasn’t a lot of room
for a wife!
b. He slept in an enormous hammock up on the roof which took his virgin footholder all day
to patch up because he kept putting his toenails through it.
c. He was too big and smelly to be allowed in the house so he had to sleep out in the woods.
But he liked it as his beloved ravens could find him more easily.

6. Was Efnisien a bad man?

a. OK he cut lumps of horses with no anaesthetic. He wrecked peace agreements twice,
and chucked his toddler nephew in the fire. No, not a bad man, but not quite nice
somehow.
b. He was a nasty little scrote who caused the wipeout of a nation and broke his sister’s
heart. Cauldron? well yeah, he did do the brave thing but come on, too little too late.
c. Of course not. He just had a difficult childhood poor sweet. His brother Bran was always
stupid but big and strong and his family admired him all the time. Case closed.
7. Why did Pryderi give the rule of Dyfed to Manawyddan?

a, They’d become best mates through being stuck in the timewarp after the war with five
other blokes who were usually dead drunk and snoring. Pryderi was also a peacenik.
b. They were gay of course. I mean marrying his mum was a good smokescreen.
c. Pryderi was a young hippie who didn’t want to do the job. He just wanted to get stoned
and go hunting.

8. Why did Manawyddan take the royal Dyfed family to England?

a. Dyfed had gone downhill a lot and there were no more good parties so time to move on.
b. Unemployment in Wales has always been high and shoemakers were making good dosh in
Gloucester.
c. They got bored and lonely with no other humans around. Of course going to the English
meant pretty poor conversation but better than nothing.

9. Why did Arianrhod reject her son?

a. This was way before the invention of the birth pill and ‘unmarried mother’ was a dodgy
lifestyle.
b. She’d never wanted kids and Gwydion was bisexual and motherly.
c. It’s about initiation and matrilineality and how women come from Venus, men from Mars.

10. What did Blodeuedd wear for her wedding to Lleu Llaw Gyffes?

a. Nothing at all because the wedding was held in a nudist commune in California.
b. Black. Simple gothic black. Leather. With a Harley to go away on.
c. A tiny mini dress made of flowers, a wreath of daisies in her hair, bare feet with lots of
tattoos.

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: QUIZ: The sinking of a U-Boat off Scotland - @harold-powell

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:39:40 +0000

Towards the very end of World War II, on April 14, 1945, just 8 miles (13km) off Peterhead, Scotland, German U-Boat Captain Karl-Adolf Schlitt sank his own vessel. What was the name of his vessel and how did the Captain accidentally sink his own ship?

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: QUIZ: Regicide. Who was the last British Monarch to be intentionally killed? - @harold-powell

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:19:50 +0100

According to Tom Petty "It's good to be King. If just for a while..." The British Isles have seen many monarchs over the centuries. Many of whom died of natural causes. Some fell in battle.Fortunately (from a regal point of view),most British monarchs have died with their heads still attached but not all.QUIZ: Regicide is the act of killing a monarch. Who was the last British Monarch to be intentionally killed?1. Name of monarch2. The year the monarch was killed3. The killer's name and reason given

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: QUIZ: Lance Corporal William Windsor and Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav - @harold-powell

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:39:03 +0100

QUIZ: Lance Corporal William Windsor and Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav once shared similar career paths. However, as is often the case, their paths eventually diverged and one rose to a knighthood while the other was temporarily demoted to fusilier (for disorderly conduct)while serving in Cyprus. One had amilitarypedigreedating back to the American Revolution while the other had little to offer other than "royal blood" and the cutesy way in which hewalked.Who are these two and what do they have in common?

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: QUIZ: While traveling across the great expanse of the North American continent when.... - @harold-powell

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:20:50 +0000

.... (and why) are you constantly veering to the right? Conversely, when are you constantly veering to the left?

QUIZ: The Romans were great engineers and especially fond of straight roads. Imagine how snarled Rome's traffic must have been and how extremely difficult it was for the average Roman citizen to see the rest of the world--because all roads led straight to Rome.
Nevertheless, the Welshman, Thomas Jefferson, resolved that boundaries, borders and property lines in his newly acquired American Midwest and West should follow straight lines rather than meandering alongside rivers, forest lines and other naturalboundaries as it had in the original colonies. Jefferson's earlier experience as a surveyor had taught him that natural boundaries tend to shift with time through erosion and other natural means. His new system of straight lines has often been referred to as a continental quilt. Roads, highways and interstates (motorways) soon followed:
1. When is it necessary while driving across the expanse of the North American continent to continually veer to the right?
2. Conversely,when are you constantly veering to the left?

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: QUIZ: In the winter of 1952 "smog" blanketed London - @harold-powell

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:09:35 +0000

QUIZ: In the winter of 1952 from Friday 5 December until Tuesday 9 December smog slowly crept over London, England, and by a set of unusual climatic events remained trapped in the atmosphere.Questions:1) How many people ultimately died?2) By what name did the event eventually come to be called?3) What major ingredient did Wales contribute to the disaster?

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: A QUIZ: Why is it wise to avoid Hollywood films directed by Alan Smithee? - @harold-powell

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:04:34 +0000

Alan Smithee directed many major films between the years 1969 and 2000, but began directing television as early as 1955 withThe Indiscreet Mrs. JarvisstarringAngela Lansbury.Why is it wise to avoid this director's work?

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: A QUIZ: Especially for EU members of AmeriCymru - @harold-powell

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:23:29 +0000

Which member state of the EU (European Union--not Mexico also known as EU or Estados Unidos)had a former Prime Minister who made his constituents so angry that they killed him, cut off his fingers and toes then ate him?The answer has three-parts:1. the name of the member state2. the name of the Prime Minister3. the year

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: Quiz on Wales - @m-ceris-higgs

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:27:55 +0000

Last year I found a quiz about Wales and Welsh history/lore and it was a big hit at the St. David's Day banquet. Does anyone have anything along this line which they would be willing to share?Ceris

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: So you think you know the Mabinogion? - @americymru

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:47:15 +0000

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Mabinogi Quiz

Here is a ten question quiz compiled by Americymru's resident Mabinogion meister Bill Tillman to test your knowledge. The Mabinogion was the theme of the 2010 West Coast Eisteddfod in Portland Oregon which included readings from works by authors of 'Stories From The New Mabinogion' commissioned by leading Welsh publishing house 'Seren'. There was also a special showing of the 2003 S4C movie 'Y Mabinogi/Otherworld'.

Download The Quiz (PDF) Here

QUESTIONS

1. Who was the first person to use the term Mabinogion?
A. Andrew Lang
B. Lady Charlotte Schreiber
C. Lady Charlotte Guest
2. Who stole Pryderi’s pigs?
A. Math
B. Gwydion
C. Gilfaethwy
3. Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed goes hunting in Glyn Cush for what?
A. Antlered Stag
B. Golden Hine
C. Wild Boar
4. When the Mabinogion was first penned from oral tradition, it appeared in how many books?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 1
5. Which one of these books contains the tales of the Mabinogi?
A. Black book of Peredur
B. Gold book of Don
C. Red book of Hergest
6. Brânwen, Daughter of Llŷr has how many half brothers?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 1
7. The Eagle in the Oak is really who?
A. Math
B. Llew
C. Gwydion
8. Modron was Mabon’s
A. Father
B. Mother
C. Brother
9. Manawyddan, Son of Llŷr buried the head of Bendigeidfrân where?
A. Isle of Anglesey
B. White Hill in London
C. Dublin
10. Efnissien destroyed the Cauldron of Rebirth by?
A. An earthquake spell
B. Entering cauldron alive
C. Using a War Hammer

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: Top Ten Welsh Comedians Quiz - @americymru

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 05:18:45 +0000

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This isn't really a top ten, just an opportunity to test your knowledge of Welsh comedians. At the bottom of the page ( before the answers ) is a link to another post where we have included snippets of performances from all ten of the comedians in our quiz. So dont go there if you want to test yourself first. Please feel free to boast about your scores ( or add your video clips of your favorite Welsh comedians ) in the comment box at the bottom of the page. Enjoy:)
ANSWERS HERE
Pob lwc and please let us know how you got on in comments below.

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QUESTIONS

1. Which Welsh comedian is famous for wearing a fez?

a. Tommy Cooper
b. Ryan Davies
c. Ronnie Williams

2. Which member of the Monty Python team was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales?

a. Terry Gilliam
b. Terry Jones
c. John Cleese

3. Which famous Welsh comediene played the lead role in the BBC sitcom 'The Vicar of Dibley'?

a. Helen Lederer
b. Tessie O'Shea
c. Dawn French

4. Which Welsh comedian sets many of his jokes in the fictional Welsh village of Llanbobl?

a. Rhod Gilbert
b. Mike Doyle
c. Wyn Calvin

5. Which Welsh comedian, born in the Rhondda, appeared in 'The Fast Show'?

a. Wes Packer
b. Matthew Pritchard
c. Paul Whitehouse

6. Which Welsh singer/comedian is famous for appearing onstage with a large leek?

a. Chris Needs
b. Max Boyce
c. Owen Money

7. Which Welsh comedian is better known as Barry Welsh or Shadwell?

a. Keith Allen
b. Peter Baynham
c. John Sparkes

8. Which Welsh comedian appeared with Mel Smith in the TV comedy show 'Alas Smith and ......' ?

a. John Morgan
b. Michael Locke
c. Griff Rhys Jones

9. Which Welsh comedian, born Lynn Mittell in Merthyr Tydfil, went on to become a famous comedian and radio presenter after a name change?

a. Hugh Pugh
b. Owen Money
c. Ivor the Engine

10. Which Welsh comedian hosted the BBC panel quiz show 'Would I Lie To You' ?

a. Wyn Calvin
b. Rob Brydon
c. Chris Corcoran

Link to comedy clips HERE .
ANSWERS HERE

Welsh Quiz Group - AmeriCymru: Cardiff City Football Club Quiz - @americymru

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 05:16:58 +0000

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How well do you know the history of CCFC? Answers to all questions can be found in Christian Saunders' 'From The Ashes: The Real History of Cardiff City Football Club' From The Ashes - Review

Feel free to cheat if you get stuck, the answers can be found here:-
Download Cardiff City Football Club Quiz Answers here
Pob lwc and please let us know how you got on in comments below.

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QUESTIONS

1. Cardiff City Football Club began life in 1899 as ......?
A. Riverside AFC
B. Splott AFC
C. Grangetown AFC
D. Llandaff AFC
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2. What was the name of the City captain who accepted the F.A. Cup from King George V?
A. Willie Davis
B. Fred Keenor
C. Jack Nicholls
D. Edgar Thomas
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3. City were drawn against which team in the semi-final of the 2010 playoffs. Was it....?
A. Blackpool
B. Nottingham Forest
C. Newcastle
D. Leicester
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4. The first competitive game in Cardiff City's new stadium was played on 8th August 2009. Which team did they play?
A. Plymouth
B. Scunthorpe
C. Watford
D. Middlesborough
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5. City won their first competitive match in the new stadium BUT what was the scoreline?
A. 4-0
B. 3-2
C. 3-0
D. 3-1
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6. What is the capacity of the new Cardiff City stadium?
A. 26,000
B. 27,000
C. 28,000
D. 30,000
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7. 'I'll Be There' ( video below ) is a song unique to Cardiff City fans. It was first sung in 1926 at the time of the General Strike.
A. True
B. False
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8. How much did Sam Hammam pay to secure the transfer of Leo Fortune-West from Rotherham United in 2000? Was it......?
A. 400,000
B. 250,000
C. 300,000
D. 500,000
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9. In the 2012-2013 season City only conceded 45 goals beating their previous record of 51. True or False?
A. True
B. False
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10. In the 2012-2013 season City won 25 League games beating their previous best of 22. True or False?
A. True
B. False

Daicw: Post Haiku Here - @ceri-shaw

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 06:28:32 +0000

Welsh Boxing: Dai Dollings on Americans : - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:25:04 +0100

Ray Arcel would fall under the care of Dai Dollings of Swansea, who had trained boxers and marathon runners as far back as the 1890's, and had been a bare-knuckle fighter of sound reputation, claiming to have fought some 30 battles. Settling in New York, he would walk a hundred blocks to Grupp's gym in all weathers, complaining about the softness of life in the U.S. he would say,

"You bloody Americans, you're made of tissue paper"

Initially, he was equally scathing of Ray Arcel's desire to be a trainer,

"The hell with a trainer. You want to be analyst....."

A much more in-depth account of Dai Dollings ' quite remarkable life can be found in the forthcoming Welsh boxing book :

Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies
Published by Peerless Press, Cardiff
ISBN : 978-0-9570342-3-5
Price £14.99
Published : 31/8/2016
451 Pages, 56 black and white photos and illustrations

Welsh Boxing: Jack Scarrott on Jimmy Wilde: - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:21:53 +0100

'Brutality ! mister, that’s what some people called it, when Jimmy Wilde started on my booth. I remember I had him boxing for me at Taff’s Well when he was about 16 or 17 years of age. Some gentleman came along and said it was brutality to put such a delicate little boy to box in the booth. They got quite angry about it, and told me to take him away before somebody hurt him. I said to them, “Now don’t you excited at all, gentlemen. There’s no need to worry about this lad getting hurt. You wait until the boxing starts and you’ll see who’ll be doing the hurting. Up comes a mountain fighter about 30 years of age and weighing about 12 stone who was supposed to be the cock of the walk in the Pentyrch, Tongwynlais and Taff’s Well area. I said, “I’ll give you £1 if you’ll stand three rounds against this little nipper.” The people started shouting “Shame” because this chap looked big enough to eat Jimmy, but in the second round Jimmy caught him with a right on the chin and laid him dead out. It took us nearly ten minutes to get him round....'

( Jack Scarrott speaking about his life in 1936 )

Taken from : Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies
Published by Peerless Press, Cardiff

ISBN : 978-0-9570342-3-5
Price £14.99
Published : 31/8/2016
451 Pages, 56 black and white photos and illustrations

Welsh Boxing: Jimmy Wilde and Jack Scarrott...extract from new book - @ceri-shaw

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 03:29:18 +0100

Jack Scarrott on Jimmy Wilde:

'Brutality ! mister, that’s what some people called it, when Jimmy Wilde started on my booth. I remember I had him boxing for me at Taff’s Well when he was about 16 or 17 years of age. Some gentleman came along and said it was brutality to put such a delicate little boy to box in the booth. They got quite angry about it, and told me to take him away before somebody hurt him. I said to them, “Now don’t you excited at all, gentlemen. There’s no need to worry about this lad getting hurt. You wait until the boxing starts and you’ll see who’ll be doing the hurting. Up comes a mountain fighter about 30 years of age and weighing about 12 stone who was supposed to be the cock of the walk in the Pentyrch, Tongwynlais and Taff’s Well area. I said, “I’ll give you £1 if you’ll stand three rounds against this little nipper.” The people started shouting “Shame” because this chap looked big enough to eat Jimmy, but in the second round Jimmy caught him with a right on the chin and laid him dead out. It took us nearly ten minutes to get him round....'

( Jack Scarrott speaking about his life in 1936 )

Taken from : Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies
Published by Peerless Press, Cardiff

ISBN : 978-0-9570342-3-5
Price £14.99
Published : 31/8/2016
451 Pages, 56 black and white photos and illustrations

Welsh Boxing: Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies - @ceri-shaw

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 03:18:27 +0100

Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies

"Fifty years I’ve been in the game, mister, and all that time I’ve been right here in the mining valleys. I know every town and village in South Wales, and I knew every boxer worth calling a fighting man they ever turned out. Dai St. John, Tom Thomas, Jim Driscoll, Freddy Welsh, Johnny Basham, Jimmy Wilde, Percy Jones, and many more that were before their time. I knew them all, and a good few started with me in my booth. I was scrapping for a living in a boxing booth before I started a booth on my own, and I was only about twenty one when I started on my own. Believe me, the life of a booth boxer in those days was tough. Mountain fighters! That’s what they called the miners who used to fight bare-knuckle on the mountains. To tell you the truth, mister, we booth boxers were afraid of them. They used to come to the fairgrounds from the collieries with their gangs with them, most of ’em half drunk, and the very sight of them was enough to freeze the heart out of a bull terrier. Broken noses, black eyes, cauliflower ears, lumps knocked off ’em. If they heard that there was a well-known champion in a boxing booth at a particular fair they’d walk fifty miles to have a go at him......"

( Jack Scarrott speaking about his life in 1936 )

Jack Scarrott’s Prize Fighters – Memoirs of a Welsh Boxing Booth Showman by Lawrence Davies
Published by Peerless Press, Cardiff

ISBN : 978-0-9570342-3-5
Price £14.99
Published : 31/8/2016
451 Pages, 56 black and white photos and illustrations

Cymru Crafts: Combining your culture with crafting - @americymru

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:37:58 +0100

If you`ve ever paid a visit to Wales, you`ll know that it is a country steeped in tradition and that the Welsh are fiercely proud of their heritage. Despite attempts to eradicate ancient Celtic traditions, the Royal National Eisteddford is a ceremonial gathering of musicians, poets and craftsmen that takes place annually and keeps these great customs alive. It`s often said that there`s something about the west of a country that awakens the creative spirit. Wales has long been viewed as a sanctuary for potters and painters, jewellers, weavers, metalworkers, candlemakers, woodcarvers and glassblowers. You can be sure of one thing in Wales - that whatever the art or craft, it will be rooted in its surroundings and heritage. A few of the most prominent are featured here, specifically love spoons, Welsh slate and gold, weaving and coracle-making.

Many of the traditional Welsh crafts stem from the Celtic traditions that have influenced Welsh customs today. An ancient tradition is the carving of a spoon from a single piece of wood, now known as a love spoon, by a young man who would then present it to his sweetheart as a sign of his love, generally considered to be an early form of engagement ring. The carvings would depict symbols such as wheel, hearts, locks and birds that represented love, friendship, health and wealth for example. The tradition continues today (although if you are a novice at carving you can cheat and buy one already made!) and are gifted for weddings, anniversaries, new homes and newborns. There are a limited number of books on the market offering a step-by-step guide to crafting a traditional love spoon, and you can buy a love spoon pattern online to try out yourself.

Dubbed as the "most Welsh of Welsh industries", traditional slate craftsmanship quite literally crowned the industrial revolution and you can witness slate-splitting and creative skills in several locations in Wales. The demise of the long history of mining in the country has since spawned an explosion of superb creations in metal and slate crafts and artistry. Welsh slates now adorn international tables a plenty in the form of coasters and placemats, and there are successful manufacturers of Welsh slate gifts, trophies, house nameplates and ornaments exporting worldwide. Pure Welsh gold is the world`s most valuable precious metal and has been a cherished jewellery metal for centuries since it demonstrated supremacy for Celtic nobles. The Royal family wear wedding rings of Welsh gold.

Once the country`s foremost and most widespread of industries, Welsh wool weaving was once responsible for an immense output of clothing and bedcovers. Nowadays restored mills housing traditional machinery offer demonstrations and workshops for a taster of old weaving methods, including carding, spinning and sewing. The production of Welsh flannel quilts in bold colours and geometric shapes was one of the few ways a woman could earn a respectable living until mass produced items took over. The few remaining quilters flying the Welsh flag produce bedcovers of exceptional quality, often featuring traditional Welsh scenes and emblems such as the patron saint, David, daffodils, leeks, and red dragons.

A weaving of a different kind altogether has long produced small oval shaped boats made from thin strips of wood woven together like a basket and then covered with canvas. Known as coracles, they are sealed with tar and have been used to catch fish in Welsh rivers for thousands of years. If you are interested in learning a new skill that is a world away from Cross Stitch , the Coracle Society offers coracle-making courses for novices.

Y Tylwth Teg: Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis - @val-white

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:34:20 +0000

The text can be read here:- Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

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'The Two Cat Witches' by William Elliot Griffis

In old days . it was believed that the seventh son, in a family of sons, was a conjurer by nature. That is, he could work wonders like the fairies and excel the doctors in curing diseases. - Read More Here (page 15)
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William Elliot Griffis Author of 'Welsh Fairy Tales'

From the Wikipedia: William Elliot Griffis -"William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. Griffis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader. During the American Civil War, he served three months in the 44th Pennsylvania Volunteers Regiment after Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. After the war, he attended Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating in 1869. At Rutgers, Griffis was an English and Latin language tutor for Tarō Kusakabe, a young samurai from the province of Echizen (part of modern Fukui). After a year of travel in Europe, he studied at the seminary of the Reformed Church in America in New Brunswick (known today as the New Brunswick Theological Seminary)."

Y Tylwth Teg: Welsh Fairy Tales and other stories - collected and edited by P.H. Emerson - @bill-tillman

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:32:28 +0000

The text can be found below.

HEAR THE FULL AUDIOBOOK ABOVE

Y Tylwth Teg: British goblins: Welsh folk lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions By Wirt Sikes - @bill-tillman

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:53:03 +0000

Read the text here:- British goblins: Welsh folk lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions By Wirt Sikes

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'British Goblins: Welsh Folkore...' by Wirt Sikes

"In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe." Wirt Sikes Read More Here
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Wirt Sikes Author of 'British Goblins'

From the Wikipedia: Wirt Sikes -"William Wirt Sikes was born in Watertown, New York, the son of William Johnson Sikes, a prominent local physician. He was the seventh of eleven children, of whom only six survived to adulthood. Sikes himself was seriously ill as a child and almost lost his hearing, so he was largely educated at home. At fourteen he went to work for a printer and learned how to set type. He supported himself thereafter by typesetting, contributing to local newspapers, and giving temperance lectures. At the age of nineteen, on August 28, 1855, he married Jeannette Annie Wilcox (1837-1889); they had two children, George Preston Sikes (1856-1957) and Clara Jeanette Sikes (1858-1956). In June 1876 Sikes was appointed U.S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. Over the next few years Sikes produced a number of pieces on Welsh folklore, mythology, and customs, collected as British Goblins; Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions (1880) and Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales (1881). He also wrote Studies of Assassination (1881). He died in Cardiff in 1883 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey.

Y Tylwth Teg: The Old Fae Comment Wall - @bill-tillman

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:15:38 +0000

Comment by Jenny Brown on August 9, 2013 at 11:10pm

Thought I would contribute a picture I made (very unskillfully but it's the best I can do... I don't know how to use the Painter program really...) of a wintery fae I met several years ago by accident (if you believe in those?).
For those who might care - He is about 7 ft tall if I were to guess but I'm not much for measurement. Anyway I come up to about his mid chest and I'm 5'5". No wings. Definitely not the stereotypical wee folk or flower fairy.  First noticed him hanging around a while after my dad died (dad died when I was 12, so when I was around 13-14); he would come around when I had trouble sleeping and I would talk to him laying in my bed until I fell asleep (I wasn't afraid of ghosts or spirits at that age cuz I had seen dad's ghost already by then and didn't find anything particularly unusual about this for some reason).
Saw his face clearly for the first time at 16 (he was a blurry white image or just a sense of presence before that). It took me several years to realize he was even fae (after finally getting around to discovering the existence of Irish/Scottish fairy lore around age 22/23... and much later the Welsh). For a long time I thought he was maybe a guardian angel or a friendly ghost or something cuz he's so white and helped me go to sleep when I would wake up from nightmares or had insomnia, and like I said I saw ghosts when I was a kid and also the way he looks and eyes sort of glow in the dark which is kind of cool. Anyway eventually figured out he was option c) - none of the above, and that he was a fae, which he had to actually tell me. This happened after several years of figuring out how to communicate with him and confirmed after finally learning the basics of how to pathwalk (first astral visit to Otherworld = age 25, 3+ yrs ago, probably wouldn't have had the guts to try it if he weren't right there saying he would help and bring me to where he was on the other side).
We are now good friends. He's pretty reserved and serious (not typical fae mischievous? but he does have a very sarcastic sense of humor) but he is nice.  Which is lucky I guess cuz they certainly aren't all nice. But anyhoo that's who's in the picture.
I would close with "long live the fair folk" but they already do so I guess it's not necessary, lol!
Comment by Bill Tillman on March 23, 2013 at 12:04pm
Patti,
Great images very inspiring.
Bill
Comment by Patti Annelle Patten on March 23, 2013 at 11:07am
You are welcome! No, the pictures are not from the Welsh Fairy Book--but I am looking for Welsh related fairy pics! I am part Fae--you know Well, I like to think I am.
Comment by Brian y Tarw Llwyd on March 22, 2013 at 11:55am
Ah! Great stuff, Patti! Thanks for adding some life to the group.
Comment by Ceri Shaw on March 22, 2013 at 11:44am
Diolch for posting Patti....great pics...are they from the Welsh Fairy Book?
Comment by Patti Annelle Patten on March 22, 2013 at 8:54am
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
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Y Tylwth Teg: The Fairy-Faith In Celtic Countries - @bill-tillman

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:04:57 +0000

Read the text here:- The Fairy-Faith In Celtic Countries

The Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries

B ut the purely social environment under which the Fairy-Faith of Wales survives is a potent force which promises to preserve underneath the surface of Welsh national life, where the commercialism of the age has compelled it to retire in a state of temporary latency, the ancestral idealism of the ancient Brythonic race. Read the book here

From the Wikipedia, Evans-Wentz :- "He was born as Walter Yeeling Wentz in Trenton, New Jersey in 1878. His father was a real estate businessman, of German descent, while his mother was Irish. He also had two brothers and two sisters. Though initially a Bapist, his father had turned to spiritualism and Theosophy. As a teenager he read Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine at his father's library and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy and Occult. Subsequently, at the turn of century, he moved to San Diego in California, and joined his father's profession, but also because it was close to Lomaland, the American headquarters for the Theosophical Society, which he joined in 1901.
Evans-Wentz joined the Stanford University at the age of 24. Here he studied religion, philosophy and history and was deeply influenced by visitors William James and W. B. Yeats. He went on to receive B.A. and M.A degrees. He then studied Celtic mythology and folklore at Jesus College, Oxford (1907). He travelled across Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man collecting stories about pixies, fairies, and goblins, and published his thesis about Fairy Faith as a book, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic countries in 1911. At Oxford, he also added his mother's Welsh surname Evans to his name, being known henceforth as Evans-Wentz.

Welsh History: Welsh History Timeline - @gaabi

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:25:26 +0000

Please suggest dates for addition in comments below....diolch.

Timeline

31,000 BCE: Red Lady of Paviland. A famous Stone Age male skeleton preserved on the Gower peninsula, mistakenly assumed to be a female as he had a mirror!

2,300 BCE Bluestones. Highly prized, large stones were cut and transported from the northern Preselis (NW Wales) to form part of the Stonehenge complex. An earlier wooden henge in the bluestone area appears to be the model for Stonehenge.

800 - 1stC Celtic period of influence, with iron technology and 'hillforts.' Tribes of the 1stC BCE developed sophisticated townships and imported Mediterranean goods such as wine.

48 -78: The Silurian War. After Caradog's resistance to the Romans failed, the Silures federation successfully fought on, including trashing a Legion. (Ref. Tacitus.)

383: Macsen Wledig ( Magnus Maximus ) made his bid for the imperial Roman purple, drawing military forces away from Britain into Gaul.

Late 4thC Pelagius, thought to come from SE Wales headed a free will theology against Augustine. His 'Celtic porridge' as it was insultingly called, was extremely popular in Celtic regions for senturies after Pelagius was declared heretic.

500 - 550: 'Arthur.' The approximate period when Celtic resistance to the Saes peaked.

500–700 Age of the Saints. Almost any holy person was politely called a saint in Wales, and many were recorded from older pagan myth.

784: Offa's Dyke built by Mercia to keep Welsh raiders from carrying off cattle. This became a long term land boundary between Wales and England.

1081: Normans have better success at invading than previous flops; but the wars continue with victory and defeat on both sides.

1100: The Mabinogi, approximate date when it was written down. It may date back far earlier in oral tradition.

1282: Conquest. England finally prevails under Edward I at the Battle of Orewin Bridge

1284: Statute of Rhuddlan.

1400: Owain Glyndwr Rebellion begins.

1485: Henry Tewdr becomes King of England due to Welsh support at the Battle of Bosworth, founding a new dynasty.

1588: Bible translated into Welsh by Henry Morgan, under Elizabeth Tudor. This was why Welsh survived better than other Celtic languages.

17thC - 19thC: The Antiquarians studied the Welsh Bible, and then began to unearth Welsh literature and history again.

Late 18thC: London Welsh Societies develop cultural pride, and support authors and social charity such as a school for Welsh children in London.

Late 18thC Methodist revival, developed into an independent Welsh movement in 1823.

21 June 1792: Iolo Morgannwg aka Edward Williams, held the first modern Gorsedd Beirdd on Primrose Hill in London. It quickly became part of the national Eistedfordd.

1838 -1845: Charlotte Guest published the Mabinogi under the title 'The Mabinogion.' This gave Welsh literature a much wider audience among both Welsh and English people.

4 November 1839 John Frost led the Chartists in the Newport Rising. 5 out of 6 of their reforms are now considered basic to a social democracy today.

1847 Brad y Llyfrau Gleision (The Treachery of the Blue Books) reported the Welsh as ignorant, lazy, and immoral in an education survey.

1916 -1922 David Lloyd George Prime Minister of the UK. He had been a reforming politician responsible for key parts of the modern welfare state such as the People's Budget, which both helped the poor and dampened their moves to violent uprising.

5 July 1948 Aneurin 'Nye' Bevin led the creation of the NHS and insisted on well-built social housing for working people.

1964 Welsh Office established in UK Govt.

1 November 1982 S4C TV aimed at Welsh people, at first bilingual, later a fully Welsh channel.

1984-1985 Miners Strike Union power broken in the UK. Not a single Welsh miner returned to work until it was formally ended.

18 September 1997 Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru (Welsh Assembly) initiated by a Yes referendum.

Welsh History: Favourite period in Welsh history - @jenny-sullivan

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:22:37 +0000

Am I allowed two, please? I owe my lovely primary school teacher, Miss Thomas, at Lansdowne PrimarySchool in Cardiff, for arousing my interest in both. The first is the 12th century - specifically Prince Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd, who arrived in America in 1170, who triggered off my teenage novel "Following Blue Water" and also my enduring fascination with historical research. The second is the 15th century and Owain Glyndwr. Miss T was so passionate about Owain that when I got old enough and brave enough, I dived into the history of the Welsh War of Independence, fell in love and am currently working on the third part of a trilogy about the War.Both periods are utterly fascinating, and I ended up laughing and crying at both Madoc's and Owain's exploits. Real people both of whom deserve wider knowledge for anyone with Welsh blood flowing through their veins.

Welsh History: Oldest human footprints outside Africa found in Britain - @gaabi

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:18:41 +0000

The earliest human footprints found have been in Africa and dated between 3.5million and 1.5million years old and now scientists have found footprints in Britain believed to be 800,000 years old:
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/earliest-human-footprints-outside-africa-found-in-britain-140207.htm
I don't know how much of Britain was inhabited during the ice ages but it's very interesting to see this!

Eto: Download eto 1 & 2 Free!! - @ceri-shaw

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:47:15 +0000

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A ll AmeriCymru members and readers can download free copies of the current and previous editions of eto, our annual anthology of short stories and poetry, from this page. Whilst the download is provided free, we have included a donation button. There is no obligation to donate BUT if you do, the proceeds will be used to assist us in our mission of encouraging and publicising Welsh and Welsh American authors. SO, please feel free to donate whatever you think each edition is worth and remember....every dollar helps. ( N.B. donations made on this page do NOT count for tax deduction purposes )

ETO 2
Fiction by: Lloyd Jones, Cynan Jones, Bel Roberts, Gaynor Madoc Leonard, Richard Rhys Jones, John Good, Meurig Jones, Philip Evans, Stuart Keir, Ian Denning, Lesley Coburn, Sheila Lewis, Paul Worthington and Matthew Rhys. Poems by: Robert Nisbet, Julie Samways
The second issue of eto, an anthology of fiction and verse by Welsh and Welsh American authors, is now available for purchase. This edition includes contributions from established authors and newcomers making their print debut.
There is a particular emphasis on fresh talent from the Rhondda valley in south Wales with stories and poems by five new writers from the region.
The edition available from this page is the direct digital edition and will download to your computer in .pdf format.
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ETO 1
Fiction by: Mike Jenkins, Chris Keil, Jude Johnson, Philip Stephen Rowlands, Glyn Scott, John Good, Gaynor Madoc Leonard, Lloyd Jones, Jean Mead, Saul Hughes, Thomas Morris Poems by: Paul Steffan Jones, Saul Hughes
The first issue of eto, an anthology of fiction and verse by Welsh and Welsh American authors, is now available for purchase. This edition includes contributions from established authors and newcomers making their print debut.
This was our inaugural edition published in March 2013. Eto 1 is also available in Kindle and paperback format from Amazon.com.
The edition available from this page is the direct digital edition and will download to your computer in .pdf format.
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Pagan And Druid Brothers And Sisters: The Old and the New - @shan-morgain

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:29:23 +0000

My discussion point is about how we regard the ancient knowledge compared to new inspiration today.
One attitude is to lovingly, slavishly stay with the sources. To rediscover, unearth, record, and redistribute the same things our ancestors said and did. Celtic Reconstructionists of the strictest type belong here as do many academic scholars. At its extreme this can be a stuffy, and limited zone.
At the other extreme is our merry eclectic. Often identified with Jungian thought the eclectic sees a great pool of world myth which is really all the same 'underneath' or 'at the centre.' So anything can be pulled off the shelf of a divine supermarket and combined with anything else. Anything can be added that seems to pretty it up. This can too easily exploit native traditions as a 'spiritual strip mining.'
So how do we find a moderate middle where we respect our ancestors, and yet respect our own freedom to be creative carriers of the traditions we love?
Well to begin with I suggest keeping a clear distinction between vision now, and vision then. Simply SAY when something comes from sources: 'According to the First Branch ... ' or not as in, 'My own idea of this, my own vision is ...'
Not to do so is dishonest. It also doesn't help others learn as it is not clear where to look to check, or go further.
Next I suggest that there is no such thing as a core religion, a One Truth Fits All. The consept of Archetypes is seriously flawed as all cultures do not share the same views of basic images. (Mothers for example vary a grat deal across cultures) Also where in Celtic spirituality do we find sin? tainted babies? permanent hell? These belong to an eastern religious import.
To me the Celts understood this very well. Relinquishing this One Truth idea allows us to respect the ancestors without being fundamentalist about them. They are a set of respected voices, but we have voices too. As the Mother of the Craft, Doreen Valiente said, who told the first witch how to do it?
Let us have ancestral respect and bouncing modern vigour too. But let us not confuse the two else we disrespect both.

Pagan And Druid Brothers And Sisters: A Short, Pre-Christian Story from Ireland - @brian-y-tarw-llwyd

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:27:31 +0000

A Short, Pre-Christian Story from Ireland

— Adapted from various sources, including “Celtic Myth and Legend” by Charles Squire, originally published in 1905.

Long after the Partholonians had come to Ireland, and long after the Nemedians had come to defeat them, and long after the Fir Bolg came to defeat the Nemedians, the Tuatha de Dannaan came to Ireland and defeated the Formorians. These people of the Goddess Danu were beautiful, tall and powerful, and today we recognize them as ancestors of the elves.
The Milesians, the ancestors of the Celts, had by this time reached Spain. It happened that a Milesian named Bregon built a great tower, and one day one of his sons, named Ith, sighted a far-off land across the seas. This land had been unknown to the Milesians and Ith set sail to find and explore it. Ith landed on the west coast of Ireland and met three Tuatha kings, grandsons of the Dagda. When Ith praised Ireland very highly, the kings became afraid that Ith’s people would invade their land and so they killed him. Ith’s companions returned to Spain with his body, and the Milesians set sail to exact revenge on the Tuatha de Danaan.
The Milesians landed in Ireland on Beltaine. When the Milesians reached Tara, the three Tuatha kings requested that the Milesians leave Ireland in peace for three days. Amergin, poet and Druid of the Milesians, agreed that they would withdraw their ships the distance of nine waves. They would then return and try to take the land in battle. The druids of the Tuatha raised great storms and mists to prevent the Milesians return. However, Amergin chanted a magical lay which dispelled the storms and mists and the Milesians were able to land. After a great battle the Tuatha were defeated. The division of the land was given over to the druid Amergin. The land below and across the sea to the west was given to the Tuatha, and ever after this the Tuatha lived either across the waves or below the hills, while the Milesians — the Celts — built their society above.
The Milesians flourished, and traded with, and sometimes fought with, the Tuatha, and even occasionally married each other. Centuries passed and there came a time when the Irish king Cormac determined that Ireland needed a standing army to defend the coasts of Ireland. The army was called Fianna Eirinn, or the Fenians. Three regiments were raised — 3000 warriors — and placed under the command of one Fionn mac Cumhail, or Finn mac Coul. The legends of Finn and the Fenians are legion, but this story is about a young lieutenant named Ossian.
The Fenians were hunting near Lake Killarney when a lady of more than human beauty came riding up to them, and told them that her name was Niamh, daughter of the Son of the Sea. Such was Niamh of the Golden Hair, Manannan’s daughter, that it was small wonder that, when she chose Ossian from among the sons of men to be her lover, all Finn’s supplications could not keep him. Ossian mounted behind her on her fairy horse, and they rode across the land to the sea-shore, and then over the tops of the waves. As they went, she described the country of the gods to him in just the same terms as Manannan himself had pictured it to Bran, son of Febal, as Mider had painted it to Etain, and as everyone that went there limned it to those that stayed at home on the earth.
As they went they saw wonders. Fairy places with bright sun-bowers and lime-white walls appeared on the surface of the sea. At one of these they halted, and Ossian, at Niamh’s request, attacked a fierce Fomor who lived there, and set free a damsel of the Tuatha de Danaan whom he kept imprisoned. He saw a hornless fawn leap from wave to wave, chased by one of those strange hounds of Celtic myth which are pure white, with red ears.
At last they reached Tír na nÓg, the “Land of the Young,” and there Ossian dwelt with Niamh for three hundred years before he remembered Erin and the Fenians. Then a great wish came upon him to see his own country and his own people again, and Niamh gave him leave to go, and mounted him upon a fairy steed for the journey. One thing alone she made him swear — not to let his feet touch earthly soil. Ossian promised, and reached Ireland on the wings of the wind.
But like the children of Ler at the end of their penance, he found all had changed. He asked for Finn and the Fenians, and was told that they were the names of people who had lived long ago, and whose deeds were written of in old books. The battle of Gabhra had been fought and the Fenians destroyed, and St. Patrick had come to Ireland, and made all things new. The very forms of men had altered; they seemed dwarves compared to the giants of his day. Seeing three hundred of them trying in vain to raise a marble slab, he rode up to them in contemptuous kindness, and lifted it with one hand.
But as he did so, the golden saddle-girth broke with the strain, and he touched the earth with his feet. The fairy horse vanished, and Ossian rose from the ground, no longer divinely young and fair and strong, but a blind, gray-haired, withered old man.
Stranded in his old age upon earthly soil, unable to help himself or find his own food, he was taken by St. Patrick into his house to be converted. The saint painted to Ossian in the brightest colors the heaven which would be his own if he would but repent, and in the darkest the hell in which he tells Ossian his old comrades now lie in anguish.
Ossian replied to the saint’s arguments, entreaties, and threats in language that was extraordinarily frank. He would not believe that heaven could be closed to the Fenians if they wished to enter it, or that God himself would not be proud to claim friendship with Finn. And if it be not so, what is the use to him of eternal life where there is no hunting, or wooing fair women, or listening to the songs and tales of the bards?
Said Ossian: “No, I will go to the Fenians, whether they sit at the feast or in the fire.”
And so he died as he had lived.

Pagan And Druid Brothers And Sisters: The Celts - @brian-y-tarw-llwyd

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:23:29 +0000

The Celts
-adapted from “The Druids”, by Elis; “The Great Cosmic Mother”, bt Soor and Mor; and “Women of the Celts”, by Markale.
[Editor’s note: I can’t be any more specific on the references, because all that information has been lost several computer crashes ago. This was originally put together at Samhuinn, 2000, and since that time more evidence has come to light about the Celts having been as far north as southern Denmark and western Germany. Also genetic evidence shows that the Irish and Welsh share a link with the Basque people, and that the Basque people are more like these British Isles’ peoples in that respect than the Basque are to the French and Spaniards who are much closer. This supports the old legends about the Celts (the sons of Mil, or the Milesians) having originally come to the British Isles from “Spain.”]
In the Fifth Century B.C., Hecateus of Miletus and Herodotus of Halicarnassus were the first to record the existence of “Keltoi.” Their “place of origin” was identified at the headwaters of the Danube, the Rhine and the Rhone, and archeology would support this contention. By the time that these first classical Greek references were made, or rather, those which have survived, were being written, the Celts were spread across Europe from Ireland and Britain in the West as far east as the Central Plains of what is now Turkey, and from what is now Belgium in Northern Europe to Cadiz in what is now Spain, and were also established south of the Alps in northern Italy with the Apennines constituting their main southern borders.
The Celts had a highly advanced weaponry, having learned the art of smelting iron. Formidable axes, billhooks and other tools allowed the Celts to open up roadways through previously impenetrable northern European forests. Not only did the new metal working allow the Celts to become more mobile and to excel in farming techniques, but it provided them with new armaments of swords and spears which rendered them, for awhile, militarily superior to most of their neighbors.
By the Fifth Century B.C., they were in northern Italy and beginning to encounter the Etruscans and Romans. They populated the Po Valley and settled with the Apennine Mountains as their southern border and established themselves as far south as Ancona. About 474 B.C. these Celts defeated the Etruscans near Ticino and were in total control of the plains of northern Italy. Under their leader, Brennos (the name could mean a title, as “Brenin” is still the Welsh word for a king), the Celts defeated the Etruscans again, and when the Romans came to the aid of the Etruscans, the Romans themselves were defeated. This was in about 390-387 B.C., when, after their victory at Allia, the Celtic army poured into Rome itself and the Romans were forced to pay a large ransom to persuade the Celts to withdraw.
In 366 B.C. Celtic mercenaries were being employed in Sparta in their war against Thebes and playing a decisive role. Large groups of Celts were following the Danube Valley and reached the Carpathians, establishing settlements as they went. Soon the Celts were on the northern borders of Macedonia, and Alexander the Great journeyed north to meet the Celtic leaders on the banks of the Danube in 335-334 B.C. in order to arrange a peace treaty of equals. With Alexander’s death, the Celtic leaders considered the peace treaty null and void. They had, in 298 B.C. under Cambaleus conquered and settled Thrace. In 280 B.C. three Celtic armies were poised on the northern borders of Macedonia. The following year one of these armies, under Bolgios, defeated the Macedonians and slew Ptolemy Ceraunos, the heir of Alexander and his once favorite general, in battle. Another Celtic army lead by Brennos and Acichorios, entered the Greek peninsula, defeated the combined army of the Greek states, commanded by Callippus of Athens, at Thermopylae. They sacked the temple at Delphi, site of Pythiao Delphi, the Greek oracle and priestess of Apollo.
The Celts were eventually granted lands in central Asia Minor and established the Celtic state of Galatia, becoming the first Celtic peoples to later convert to Christianity by Paul of Tarsus, to whom he wrote his famous epistle. Back in Greece, a further 4,000 warriors and their families were recruited by Ptolemy the Second, the pharaoh of Egypt, and went to serve him there. Other bands of Celts decided to serve as mercenaries and armies of various kings such as those of Carthage and Syracuse, and even Syria.
The bravery of the Celts in battle was a byword in the ancient world and Aristotle claimed that they feared nothing: ‘neither earthquakes or waves.’ The classical writers have much to say on the battle tactics of the Celts, who excelled as cavalry which, with their superior iron weapons seemed to have given them the initial edge over the Mediterranean world.
Within Celtic society there was a band of professional warriors and this warrior class had their own rituals. They were professionals who sold their expertise to whoever would hire their services. Their world might be more quickly understood by comparing them with the Samurai, the military caste of Japan which was finally abolished at the turn of this century. This Celtic warrior caste is also parallel to Hindu society, which had a warrior class just below the caste of the Brahmins.
Celtic society had four main classes, very much similar to other Indo-European societies: the intelligentsia, the warriors, the producers of goods, and the menials or manual workers. By the time the Irish law system was codified, five basic classes had emerged which consisted of: the various forms of kings or chieftains, the intelligentsia or professionals, the officials and magistrates, the clansmen who worked the land and formed the army in time of war, and those who had forfeited their civil rights, which consisted mainly of criminals undergoing punishment, prisoners of war, and hostages.
The Celts were not patriarchal. Robert Graves has traced their Ogham script back to Anatolia, and relates the original Celtic people to the remains of the neolithic matriarchies of the Near East. Since ancient Anatolia (now Turkey) was once called Galatia, and branches of the Celts were called Galateans, or Gauls, this connection makes sense.
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote of the Celts:
Their wives are to every man the most sacred witness to his bravery. Tradition says that wavering armies have been rallied by women... They believe that the sex has a certain prescience, and they do not despise their counsels or make light of their opinions.
The Celts did not believe in capital punishment. Their tribal councils were attended and often presided over by women, and their inheritance of property and also kingship was matrilineal. Their male leaders were elected, and they had a reputation for democratic practices. As the Celts moved into new areas, they assimilated much of the native Neolithic culture. Ancient pre-Celtic influences survived liberally among Celticized people in Ireland, Wales, Brittany and the Basque country.
In Celtic law and custom, women were relatively free and powerful. They enjoyed greater economic, social, and sexual autonomy than women in modern day Britain, France or America. The early Celtic Christian church was suspect to the Roman Catholic orthodoxy precisely because it was pro-woman -- women celebrated mass. Women priests, called conhospitae , administered the sacramental wine while the male priests distributed the wafers. St. Patrick and Roman Christianity finally ended Druidic worship in Ireland, but the Irish church retained much of its pagan mysticism. Wales and Ireland, even in medieval times, preserved Celtic language, art, and literature, including the visionary ollave and bardic tradition of the Goddess with its sacred tree-alphabet.
The tuath (tribe) was the basic political unit in Ireland, owning the land communally. Cattle, not land, was the basis of wealth and the medium of exchange. Women also owned herds. The ruler of the tuath was commonly a man, but the queen was entitled to one-third of all war booty. There were many famous queen warriors, like the British Queen Boudicca in 61 BC. Powerful legendary women, like Queen Maeve of Connaught, were undoubtedly based on real people.
Celtic women owned their own property and were free to choose their mates, or “husbands.” In marriage, women didn’t enter legally into the man’s family, but retained independent status and property. Desiring divorce, the woman simply took back her belongings and dowry. Marriage was not a religious ceremony, and there was no concept of adultery. There were even “annual marriages,” entered into by both women and men, in which both parties agreed to be bonded for one year; at the end of each year the bond was mutually renewed, or abolished. Polyandry was practiced by some tribes; children belonged to the tuath . Legal contracts were made by the “wife” independently of her mate, and women were often the economic “heads” of families, with daughters inheriting equally with sons. Celtic heroes were named after their mothers -- and “heroism” was not confined to men. When upper-status Celts officially mated, she gave him a fine horse and a sword -- and he gave her a fine horse and a sword. The mutual exchange of nobility was the ceremonial band.
By the first century B.C., however, Celtic settlements and influence had been driven back from Thrace along the Danube out of areas such as Illyria, Pannonia, Norcium, and with Germanic tribal pressure from the northeast, the Celts were being pressed back westward over the Rhine, the great river whose Celtic name meant “the sea.” Only Gaul proper remained an independent Celtic territory, together with the islands of Britain and Ireland. Everywhere else the Celts had fallen either to the remorseless military machine of Rome or to the Germanic tribes. One of the clever devices used by the highly patriarchal Romans to divide and conquer the barbarians was to mock the tribal males for being “ruled by women.” Romans took captured men aside and laughed at them for “allowing their women” to be powerful and influential. The Romans promised them enhanced power and pleasure in the new regime if they would only turn against their women and become dominators of women, like the Romans were. When the tribal males succumbed and disavowed their strong women as leaders and equal partners in war and love, the tribes of Europe collapsed into disarray, making Roman conquest easier.
Between 58 B.C. and 55 B.C., Julius Caesar and the Roman armies defeated most of the Gaulish leaders. So successful were the Romans that in 55 B.C. Caesar was able to take an invasion force and land on the southern shores of Britain and defeat the Celtic Cantii (the tribe who gave their name to Kent). By 51 B.C. the Romans conquered the last independent Gaulish Celtic territory in a bloody campaign that ended around the hill fort of the Aquitani, although every few years the Gauls rose in unsuccessful attempts to regain their independence.
In about A.D. 40 - 43, the Romans invaded southern Britain but were never able to completely conquer Britain. Eventually they gave up the idea of subduing the northern part of the island, building the famous Hadrian’s Wall from coast to coast to mark their northern frontier. During the 360 years or so that southern Britain was part of the Roman Empire, insurrections against Roman rule occurred.
New conquerors now threatened what remained of the Celtic world. Jutes, Angles, and Saxons began to raid and settle in Britain and eventually annihilated large sections of the Celtic populations in the area which was to become England, causing those that remained to migrate in large numbers either to the western and northern areas, to Ireland, or to the European mainland. Only in Wales, Scotland, and Cornwall have the Celts survived in Britain until modern times. Large numbers of Celtic refugees split to Brittany, where their Celtic descendants remain to the present day.
Today the Celtic peoples have been pushed back into the islands and peninsulas of northwestern Europe, where they constitute a population of sixteen million, of which only two and one-half million still speak a Celtic language. These are the hearty survivors of the former predominant civilization of northern Europe which once spread from one side of the continent to the other and from north to south. It should be noted, however, that European Celts have migrated to the New World in large numbers at various times, and have also settled in New Zealand and Australia.

Pagan And Druid Brothers And Sisters: Old Group Comment wall - @ceri-shaw

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 22:49:05 +0000

Jennifer (aka Garan Gwyn) March 18, 2014 at 4:33pm
Oh...Yes, I do remember that showing up on my page as well. And if we were going to use that, we should get her permission, as the tree is not in public domain. However, I personally think we could come up with something better to represent the spirit of "Pagan and Druid" brothers and sisters if we put our heads together. We might have to "borrow" it as well, though... Reply
Brian y Tarw Llwyd March 18, 2014 at 3:57pm
Oh, btw, the logo that still shows on my home page here is Jen Delyth's Celtic Tree of Life, so perhaps she might be willing to officially allow us to use it? Reply Edit Delete Brian y Tarw Llwyd March 18, 2014 at 3:55pm No, sorry, I don't have the logo. If the group was started by Hugh Roberts (as in dicated above) then I imagine he might have it still. I will give your idea some thought, and see if I think of something that doesn't step on too many toes. hehe
Ceri Shaw March 18, 2014 at 3:29pm
Diolch for posting here Shan and Brian...I certainly plan to be active on this group ( and others ) when the reconstruction process is sufficiently advanced Meanwhile a question for you Brian....do you still have the group logo? I cant find it anywhere and I wondered if you originally posted it and still had it lying around somewhere? If not....no worries, we can always devise a new one. In fact perhaps we should discuss what the logo shold be on this wall?
Shan Morgain March 15, 2014 at 7:28am
Grey Bull I come to your call. I agree absolutely the way to fight such spiteful stupidity is to rebuild and better. After all our ancestors rebuilt many times, and our descendants will also.
Brian y Tarw Llwyd March 15, 2014 at 7:12am
As a result of some juvenile sabotage, all the articles, comments, stories, and pictures that were here seem to have been erased permanently. While that is extremely irritating, I suppose there is nothing to do at this point except view this as an opportunity to create something even better. Anyone who was a member of this page will have to re-join the group, just like I had to moments ago. Let's try to have some fun with this, shall we?

Cymru Crafts: Photos Of Our Work - @americymru

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:10:30 +0000

Photos of our work

Posted by Katharine on September 8, 2008 at 6:49pm in Cymru Crafts
I'd like to see some of the work that folks on this group have created, like the wonderful dragon posted by Gaabi. Some of the carved/ quilted / crocheted / painted, whatever wonders you have produced. It's always inspiring to see what others are doing.
Replies to This Discussion
Reply by Katharine September 8, 2008 at 6:55pm
For starters, I'm going to attempt to attach a photo of a black cotton fabric book cover I created for my Welsh dictionary. I embroidered a dragon in gold, and added an appliquéd border. The cover is removable; I've used it on blank journals, also. The size is 4 1/2 inches by 6 1/2 inches.
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Reply by Ceri Shaw on September 8, 2008 at 7:00pm
Hi Katharine ...please feel free to use the image upload icon ( top right in the textbox tool panel, after BIUS and the link icon ) to upload your photos and display them directly in the textbox.

Cofion

Ceri
Reply by Katharine on September 8, 2008 at 7:01pm
Diolch, Ceri! Got it this time.
Your neophyte friend,
Katharine
Reply by Katharine on September 22, 2008 at 2:53pm
One of the things I do is create stoles for ministers, and other vestments. I'll attempt to post some photos of them.

Reply by Katharine on September 22, 2008 at 2:54pm
Yikes! I didn't know it would be so huge on the page!
I'll try another...

Reply by Katharine on September 22, 2008 at 2:57pm
And an animal which was on the gold and white stole (it depicted all four of the Gospel animals - this is the ox for Luke). Custom orders comprise the bulk of my work.

Reply by Katharine on September 8, 2008 at 6:59pm
I just tried to share a photo of a book cover I made, but I must have goofed because it disappeared. so I'll try again. It's made of cotton fabric - I embroidered a gold dragon and added appliqué. The size is 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. If this appears twice, forgive me....

Reply by gaabi on September 22, 2008 at 9:58am
Wow, very nice! What thread or floss did you use?
Reply by Katharine on September 22, 2008 at 2:38pm
Thanks, gaabi. I used a gold thread meant for sewing machines. First I drew the dragon, then used the drawing as a guide to stitch the dragon on the fabric. It's quite sparkly.
Reply by Seraffa on October 15, 2008 at 6:28pm
Katherine - what sewing machine do you recommend for this type of work? ~S.
Reply by Katharine on October 26, 2008 at 8:25pm
I think you could use any sewing machine. Mine does nothing special; I just draw the dragon and then straight stitch on my drawn lines.
These days one can get fancy machines that can be programmed, etc. but mine is just is an old, sturdy workhorse, not electronic.
Sorry to take so long in getting back to you...
Reply by Wild Canary on September 22, 2008 at 10:15am
Hi, Katherine. It is inspiring to see other people's work. I have enjoyed the posts on your webpage and Angela and gaaibe', too. I am going to attempt to carve a spoon, but my web cam is down for now so no photos.
Also, I have to figure out how to get my photos of my quilt work off the floppies and on to CD;s. This computer is supposed to be able to do it, but I haven't learned yet.
So many worlds to open!
(You have checked out the photo section? Angela posted some of her work and there are some caricatures, as well as David Western's lovespoon)
I think it would be good to have some posted here, too, as you say, inspiration.
There are so many talents represented here, it is almost sensory overload:)
I am mostly a dabbler. I will try to scratch up some stuff to post.

Cymru Crafts: Garan Gwyn's Gorgeous t-shirt quilt! - @gaabi

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 04:43:40 +0000

Jen posted this as a wall comment and I wanted to make it a forum cause I think that will be easier to find later - this is a beautiful, clever quilt with directions, made from tshirts!

Here is the T-shirt Quilt I finally finished for Brian y Tarw Llwyd. gaabi has asked me to tell a bit about how it was made.
First of all, let me say that I am NOT a quilter. This is only the second quilt I have made. It is also the largest quilt I have made. I don't have a long-arm quilting machine, and I wouldn't attempt to do anything larger than this! So for those of you who are quilters, forgive me if I fail to use the proper terms, etc...but I trust you will know wht I'm talking about. For those of you who aren't quilters, I suggest taking a workshop like I did. LOL Brian told me I should charge for this information to help defray the cost of the workshop.
Brian gave me 6 old T-shirts that were wearing out and getting holes in them. Fortunately, most of the holes were not in the areas where the art work was, so I didn't have to do much there. Holes can be covered with applique, embroidery, etc...or, if small, simple permanent markers. You need to measure the largest picture/area that you want to include in the quilt, because all of your T-shirts will be cut to this size. I had a problem in that the large dragon in the lower left-hand corner was on a large T-shirt, while some of the other T-shirts were smaller...and of course the smaller screen prints, etc., were placed higher on the shirts than the center, so cutting a 15" square, for example, from each T-shirt would have meant some of the art work would have been way off-center. A little bit is okay...and another way to compensate, again, is with appliques and embroidery. I considered this but decided against it, and instead chose to sacrifice some of the large dragon picture. This is where your own preference and artistic judgment comes in. You also have to take into consideration where the neckband is and the sleeve seams, so be sure to measure your largest and smallest (or all of them) before you cut anything. Plan it out before you cut!! You'll be glad you did.

Once you've decided on how large your T-shirt squares are going to be, find the center of your art work (or as close to it as possible without taking in part of the neck or sleeve seam and mark the square. My squares ended up being 12". Cut up the side seams and sleeves so the shirt lays out flat and you aren't cutting through both the front and back when you go to cut out your art square. Cut out the square with a rotary cutter, using a straight edge. I used the quilter's square that I used to find my center, to make sure I had them all centered (a double-check).

Apply Pellon Shape-Flex Woven Fusible Interfacing (iron-on) to the back of the squares (after cutting the same size). This is a very soft T-shirt-like interfacing that comes in black or white. It will help keep the T-shirt from stretching as you sew. However, I noticed that it did not PREVENT the square from stretching, and I wish I had stay-stitched my squares before adding my strips. This is not a quilter's trick, but is used regularly in making clothing. The squares did still stretch, and especially when it came time to quilt the "sandwich."

After applying the interfacing, you simply start building your borders as you would any quilt. I won't explain that process here because you can learn that from any basic quilting book or You-tube video. I used a simple cross-hatch quilt pattern because of the fact that I don't have a long-armed quilting machine, and this seemed like the easiest thing to do. I didn't want to attempt anything new on something I was giving as a gift.

It took me a long time, between other projects and obligations (and migraines), but here it is, finally, a year later...and now that it's not cold enough to use it any more. 91 degrees in Fresno last Sunday, and it's still winter!! YIKES!!

So early Happy Birthday, Brian y Tarw Llwyd!!

Photo Club: Spring 2015 Photo Competition Winner - @americymru

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:25:57 +0000

Adjudication

This was a tough competition, there were many really fantastic photographs and it was very hard to choose.
First, some Honorable Mentions:
“Valleys Animals,” by Mab Jones, for its excellent portrayal of another kind of animal.
“Hungry Swans,” by Alison McDonald, for being a composition that communicates the insolent and fearless character of hungry swans.
“Small Bug,” Peter Lewis, for whimsy, pathos and texture.
Also wonderful shots were:
“Coppery Headed Emerald” by Neil Hughes - this was beautifully crisp, perfectly captured, lovely color and good light, a really excellent shot of a beautiful subject.
“Fox,” by Jay Taylor, had wonderful color and composition, the subject and his/her exquisite face were wonderfully framed.
“Grey Squirrel” by Karen FIsher, this was a nice close up and great composition, nice color and good contrast in limited color palette.
“Wings” Mab Jones, had great contrast and color, shot at perfect moment to catch subject in unusual pose and motion, normally would say prefer subject in right or left third of photo but the contrast of the light and color in the background, separated at either side of bird made this composition perfect.
We had a very, very hard time choosing the number one shot. There were four absolutely stand out photos, all of equal beauty and quality, each deserving the number one spot and it really came down to an almost impossible and arbitrary choice to pick any above the others. The following three photos were really fantastic and all four described below were amazing:
“Short Eared Owl” by Neil Hughes was perfectly composed and framed, with beautiful contrast, excellent framing on subject’s face and eyes, motion captured just perfectly, an absolutely amazing shot.
“Grey Wolf” by Neil Hughes. A gorgeous picture that really created a character and a personality of its subject and empathy in the viewer. The focus and composition are perfect with the eye framed in the center, pulling the viewer’s attention straight into the subject and its story. Light in the green in the upper center background provided color contrast and framed the subject below.
“Red Tail Hawk” by Brett Hull was the closest competition to the photo we finally chose as this competition's winner. It has gorgeous light, motion and immaculate focus, it's so perfect it almost doesn’t seem real.

For the winner for this competition, we chose:
“A Curious Little Lamb” by Karen Fisher
This photo edged just a hair above the other three in its composition. The lamb’s body sits in right third but its head breaks the rule of thirds and imposes itself into the center, like the nosy little critter it belongs to, imparting character, emotional depth and personality to the subject of the shot. The touch of green in the upper left corner compliments the lit pinkish red in the lambs ear. The most amazing thing is the light: a circle in the background center of the shot, framing the head and wonderfully lighting the ear and the lamb's right side, as though back and hair lights had been set in a studio. The temperature and depth of field are excellent, popping out the subject and centering the viewer's attention.

Photo Club: Odessa's Opera House added by Larisa Rzhepishevska - @larisa-rzhepishevska

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:05:49 +0000

One of the best theaters in the world

John Berry April 6, 2014 at 7:13pm

Indeed a very beautiful building. Any thoughts as to how feasible a bicycle trip to Georgia through Ukraine will be in About June 2014, anyone?

Ceri Shaw April 6, 2014 at 4:39pm

Ceri Shaw April 6, 2014 at 4:38pm

Ceri Shaw April 6, 2014 at 4:37pm

Photo Club: Old Photo Club Comment Wall - @americymru

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:56:42 +0000

Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:05pm

Crescent moon over Yellowstone

Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:03pm

Contrail over South Dakota

Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:01pm

Idaho Falls

Comment by Peter Lewis on October 8, 2010 at 6:11pm

Very simple and poetic image. I like it very much Dai.

Comment by mona everett on October 8, 2010 at 5:18pm

I think it is a very creative take on an old-fashioned pinhole camera. Very cool photo! Thanks for posting it.

Comment by Dai Williams on October 8, 2010 at 6:44am

This is Venus passing the sun, I have a small telescope, which I set up with the view aimed at a peice of paper, I then took a photo of that.

What do you think?

Comment by Andrew Pierce on July 13, 2010 at 7:37pm

Shwmai, I hope that some of you may get a chance to check out some of my photos. Here is the link to my business site. Let me know what you guys think. http://www.wix.com/shutterspeedphoto/ShutterSpeed

Comment by Tam Ryan on July 11, 2009 at 5:08pm

Anyone out there heard of the Gigapan? One of our new members, Peter Mason, recently told me about it. Here's the YouTube Tutorial on how to use this device with a digital camera. I will certainly be checking this out more closely when I have more time on my hands.

Comment by Tam Ryan on August 12, 2008 at 1:01am

Hi Scott,

Thanks for sharing the links to your photos. I took a look at them and enjoyed all of the nature photography. I do mostly scenics, but getting close-ups of flowers, birds, butterflies, etc. are other interests, as well. Your photos are excellent.

Tam

Comment by Scott Peden, Pyper on August 11, 2008 at 11:42pm

I have a variety of Olympus cameras, 2 of them DSLR's, the E-500 and a E330 with live view and super macro focusing. Most of my photos are flowers, small stuff and lowlight, in the redwood canopy.
My online photo's are located here.
http://scottpeden.smugmug.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55838750@N00/
http://www.picturetrail.com/bigbasin

Photo Club: Poppit Sands and Teifi Estuary (Cardigan) - @steve-gilbert

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:36:24 +0000

Photo Club: Caerphilly Castle - @richard-phillips

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:29:37 +0000

My son and daughter outside Caerphilly Castle last Easter.

Photo Club: Sunrise 03172015, new filters - @gaabi

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:25:13 +0000

I've never used filters before, I mostly do photography to create web objects for sites and use a digital camera and do everything post in Photoshop but this last week I got my first filters and tried out the first one this morning quickly, a graduated neutral density filter - half of the filter is clear and the other half is neutral density - it reduces or modifies intensity of color. Just did this really fast on way to daughter's school with camera on tripod on hood of car as she yelled at me that we would be late. I also got a remote shutter release, a switch to take pix while not touching your camera so it reduces chances you'll shake it. Planning to drag Ceri and kids out to the high desert to learn to use all these wonderful things next week!

Photo Club: Sunrise shots with new graduated neutral density filter - @gaabi

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:14:26 +0000

I ended up sending the filter set back that I got, they weren't really good quality, and exchanging them for another set on Amazon. This morning I dragged my hapless middle child out with me to try them as we've had fantastic rain and I was hoping for dramatic skies. The first photo is the top of the hill in our neighborhood and the second is looking east over the city from the top of another hill near the hospital. Next I'm saving for a telephoto lense suitable for a beginner.

I got some rainbow lense flare on the right but I love how this came out, the wisps of mist leaving the valley floor and the silhouettes of still empty hedge branches -

This is where I'd love that telephoto but I might try painting this - love that it got the reflection of the headlights in the road surface on the bridge, that was totally unexpected -

Photo Club: DIY Equipment - @gaabi

Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:10:33 +0000

I'd love to be able to afford real equipment, and hopefully someday I will, but for now I'm loving figuring out how to make things myself. It's both the thrill of having a new toy to play with and the thrill of solving the puzzle of how to get it. Does anyone else here do this?
So far I've made a light box and my own versions of Lowell ego lights, which are on my blog here: http://randomgaab.blogspot.com/2015/02/guerilla-studio.html
I also have a big chinese paper lantern to make a China ball, I used it once to light this but I want a higher lumen cool bulb for it as it was so muted. Someone gave me a bunch of little paper lanterns, too, haven't done anything with those yet.

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting For Buffoons - NoName Script - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:34:54 +0000

NoName Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
This is an attempt to do the same thing as the earlier 'Bills' script utilizing the excellent ' dialog ' program which enables you to present a 'pseudo' GUI within the shell ( using the ncurses library ). You will need to install 'dialog' if you dont already have it and once again it is to be found in the Debian or Ubuntu repositories. This script is not complete but it does display the menu correctly. After that it's mostly downhill. You will need to create a folder called 'vault' in your home folder if you want to try and make this function. Best of luck!
#!/bin/bash
# Script for controlling access to encrypted directory.
#documents

while [ 0 ]; do
pwd > /tmp/pd
PD=" `cat /tmp/pd` "
dialog --title "Enter the Vault" \
--radiolist "Choose one of the following or press to exit" 11 40 6 \
   "1" "Open vault" off\
   "2" "Close vault" off\
   "3" "Append a file" ON 2>/tmp/ans
   if [ $? = 1 ]; then
   rm -f /tmp/ans
   clear
   exit 0
fi
R="`cat /tmp/ans`"
if [ $R = "1" ]; then
chmod 700 ~/vault ;
ccrypt -d ~/vault/* ;
nautilus ~/vault;
elif [ $R = "2" ]; then
chmod 700 ~/vault ;
ccrypt -e ~/vault/* ;
chmod 000 ~/vault ;
elif [ $R = "3" ]; then
dialog --inputbox "Enter the file name:" 8 40 2>/tmp/answer
F="`cat /tmp/answer`"
rm -f /tmp/answer
chmod 700 ~/vault ;
ccrypt -d ~/vault/*
for ea in $F; do mv $ea ~/vault; done
cd ~/vault
for i in $ea; do mv {,"`date`"}$ea ; done
ccrypt -e ~/vault/*
chmod 000 ~/vault ;
cd $PD
fi
rm -f /tmp/pd
done

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting For Buffoons - Finder Script - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:31:11 +0000

Finder Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
OK so this one is just plain dumb! It represents an attempt on my part to develop a basic desktop search script. However it relied upon a host of specific directory locations and worked very badly if at all in the majority of cases. Not recommended!

#!/bin/bash
menu () {
echo "==========================================================="
echo "Please enter search extension in the format *.:-"
read FIND
echo " "
echo "Please enter your search directory using the absolute path:-"
read PLACE
echo " "
echo "If you wish to copy the files to the view directory select 'a'."
echo "If you wish to locate the files select 'b'."
echo "If you wish to locate and copy the files select 'c'."
echo " "
echo "a copy" $FIND "in" $PLACE
echo "b locate" $FIND "in" $PLACE
echo "c locate and copy" $FIND "in" $PLACE
echo " "
read NAME
case "$NAME" in
a) find $PLACE -iname $FIND 2> /dev/null -exec cp -f --target-directory /home/userone/finder/view {} \; ;;
b) find $PLACE -iname $FIND -ls >> /home/userone/finder/location 2> /dev/null ;;
c) find $PLACE -iname $FIND -ls >> /home/userone/finder/location 2> /dev/null ; find $PLACE -iname $FIND 2> /dev/null -exec cp -f --target-directory /home/userone/finder/view {} \; ;;
*) echo "Not a valid option!"
esac
echo " "
echo "Done"
echo " "
}
menu
menu
exit 0

Linux Users Group: Quick Hide Script - Bash Scripting For Buffoons - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:27:36 +0000

Quick Hide Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
This program will whisk a collection of .jpg's from your desktop, tar and encrypt them and hide the encrypted file deep in the hidden folder hierarchy . It will also clear your '.thumbnails/normal' cache and your firefox cache all in one go. I cannot imagine why I wrote this script...it must have been a hypothetical exercise. Unless of course it has something to do with the subject of this post (sadly now defunct). It was all a long time ago. The script makes use of the ' tar ' and ' gpg ' commands. You will, of course, need to tweak it to meet your own requirements. Have fun!

#!/bin/bash
echo "" ;
echo "Enter Foldername" ;
read filename ;
mv *.jpg $filename 2> /dev/null ;
mv *.JPG $filename 2> /dev/null ;
mv *.jpeg $filename 2> /dev/null ;
mv *.JPEG $filename 2> /dev/null ;
tar cf $filename.tar $filename ;
gpg -c -a $filename.tar ;
rm -rf $filename.tar ;
rm -rf $filename ;
mv $filename.tar.asc .$filename.tar.asc ;
mv .*.tar.asc .kde/share/config/Tar2 ;
rm /home/userthree/.thumbnails/normal/*.png 2> /dev/null ;
rm /home/userthree/.mozilla/firefox/lrm26qna.default/Cache/*.png 2> /dev/null ;
echo "" ;
echo "Done" ;
echo "" ;

exit 0

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting For Buffoons - Bills Script - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:20:40 +0000

Bills Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
If you are in the habit of paying bills online you will no doubt be familiar with the exhortation to print a copy of your payment confirmation for your records. Why? You have a computer. Why would you not screenshot your confirmation and store it on your hard drive rather than piling up bits of paper which you will inevitably lose? Of course any financial records kept on your hard drive need to be stored securely. The following script allows you to do precisely that. It encrypts and datestamps any .png in the folder in which it resides and moves it to the 'bills' folder.
You will need to create a bills folder in 'Documents' and install the ' ccrypt ' program before it will work. You will also need to develop the habit of storing paymentconfirmations as screenshots. Unfortunately the script is not selective and it will consign any and all .png's to the 'bills' folder whether you want them there or not. The menu offers 'Open', "Close', "Append' and "List' options all of which are self-explanatory. This script has a number of amusing quirks and deficiencies as a consequence of under-development.
I suppose it could be useful, it just needs a lot more work.

#!/bin/bash
space () {
echo " "
echo "Done"
echo " "
}
open () {
ccrypt -d ~/Documents/bills/*.cpt ;
nautilus ~/Documents/bills ;
space ;
}
close () {
ccrypt -e ~/Documents/bills/*.png ;
space ;
}
openadd () {
for png in *.png; do mv {,"`date`"}$png; done
mv *.png ~/Documents/bills ;
ccrypt -e ~/Documents/bills/*.png ;
space ;
}
list () {
ls /home/userone/Documents/bills
space ;
}
menu () {
echo "======================================="
echo "Please select from the following menu:-"
echo " "
echo "1 Open bills folder."
echo "2 Close bills folder."
echo "3 Append to bills folder."
echo "4 List bills folder."
echo " "
read NAME
case "$NAME" in
1)
open ;;
2)
close ;;
3)
openadd ;;
4)
list ;;
esac
}
menu

exit 0

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting For Buffoons - Snapshot Script - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 04:13:55 +0000

Snapshot Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
This script utilises the ' du ', ' ls ' and ' d f ' commands to provide a mass of information about the folder in which it is located. The 'df-h' command also gives you a measure of your current disk usage similar to the following:-
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 46G 31G 108G 23% /
Note that the script is written in such a way that 'ls -lhSR' and 'du -ah/sh' only work with reference to the folder in which they are located. Do not be alarmed when your console shuts down after the script has run. The amazingly useful ' tee ' command has generated a file called 'snapshot' in your current working folder. You will find the output from the command in that file. This script is perhaps a prime candidate for further sophistication and development. At one time I wrote a version that would preserve the current and previous outputs and compare them with the diff command. If you go down that route you can have fun playing with the various output formats that 'diff' provides, for instance, obsessively generating and checking output every two seconds to see if it's somehow different ( which is unlikely ) . I stopped playing with this when I realised that it did nothing that I couldn't accomplish more easily in the GUI. On a 'headless' server though it might still be of some value.
#!/bin/bash
snap ()
{
date
echo " "
echo "Snapshot" ;
echo "---------" ;
echo " " ;
echo "ls -lhSR --authorship /home/userone [Showing permissions , size , authorship and last access times of all files and folders]" ;
echo "----------------------------------------------------" ;
echo " " ;
ls -lhSR --author ;
echo " " ;
echo "du -sh /home/userone [Directory size - Human readable]" ;
echo "----------------------------------------------------" ;
echo " " ;
du -sh ;
echo " " ;
echo "du -ah /home/userone [Showing sub-directory structure and file size inc. hidden files]" ;
echo "----------------------------------------------------" ;
echo " " ;
du -ah ;
echo " " ;
echo "df -h /home/userone [Showing amount of disk space on /home partition]" ;
echo "----------------------------------------------------" ;
echo " "
df -h /home ;
}

snap | tee /home/userone/snapshot

gedit /home/userone/snapshot

exit 0

NOTE: In the likely event that your username is not 'userone' you will need to amend the last two lines accordingly.

Vocabulary Challenge Group: Misc Nonsense - @ceri-shaw

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:52:46 +0000

Comment by Prof. Em. E. Wyn Roberts on August 8, 2011 at 12:14pm

    J:

    How is it possible for one whom you, with a callousness bordering on pachydermatitis, have so caused to lose face to show a visage!!!! Your request, Jack, is surely malap(p)ropriate!

    Do not take the bloom off our little verbal joust!

    With regards form one Taffydil to another.



    W.

Comment by Prof Dai Twaddle B.S. M.A. P.H.D on August 8, 2011 at 7:16am

    My dear erudite Professor Roberts, I am saddened by your calumnious remarks.



    Further, dear sir, please do us the courtesy of showing your face; do not hide behind that hideous out-of-focus image of a Narcissus (though in your case, that may be appropriate) sitting on your shoulders.

Comment by Prof. Em. E. Wyn Roberts on August 7, 2011 at 11:54pm

    Dear Jack:

    A fine repartee to my riposte - or vice versa! I thank you and assume that you have indeed given me full ab(so)lution! You also see my endorsement of your "value, desire, or need to require (or maybe just request) respondEnts to also present their sentences using the 'more commonly found' wordS in place of those presented for us" since I did use synonyms for the "big" words in my sentence.



    Cofion gorau



    Wyn



Comment by Prof. Em. E. Wyn Roberts on August 7, 2011 at 5:09pm

    Mr. Swansea Jack's desire to menda(u)ciously deny Dai Twaddle reputation as a liar was not only otiose but gravigrade - so sadly irrelevant and heavy-footed - as well as heavy-handed - that it's only reasonable location is Mr. Thomas Crapper's ablutionary mechanism.

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on August 7, 2011 at 1:10pm

    Thank the Goddess it's not Welsh vocab or I'd be even more stuck!

Comment by Gillian Morgan on August 7, 2011 at 12:10pm

    'Beware the green-eyed monster' -if Iago had been hebetudinous he might not have been loquacious and mendacious.

Madoc: Prince Madoc And The Legend Of White Indians - @ceri-shaw

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:22:08 +0000

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Comment by Wedi Gadael y Rhwydwaith on January 11, 2009 at 9:36pm
Wikipedia (now apparently respectable!) has this to say (and it does give sources):

Porthmadog, pronounced /ˌpɒrθˈmædɒg/ and known locally as Port [...] The origin of its name is unclear. Some claim that the town is named after its founder Madocks, and indeed historical documents show that Madocks himself referred to the town as "Pentre Gwaelod" (translated roughly into English as "Lower Village"). [...]"

It also mentiones the Madog legend, implying that since documentary evidence is so thin on the ground, a conclusion either way to the origin of the name is next to impossible. (Probably for the best ^^)
Comment by ArthMawr on January 11, 2009 at 8:19pm
Porthmadoc was not named for Prince Madoc but William Madocks, the chap who drained the land upon which it was built
Comment by Neil Hughes on January 9, 2009 at 12:13pm
I've always pronounced it Mado(c) as opposed to Mado(g) so I pronounce the town named for him Porthmadoc.Someone from that area may correct me!.Anyway it's certainly closer than Maydoc.
Comment by Neil Hughes on January 8, 2009 at 7:51am
If as I believe,Madoc was the son of Owain Gwynedd,then he had a Viking grandmother as Owains father,Cynan was married to a viking princess from Dublin.This being the case it could explain Madoc's seamanship and also his awareness of the existence of America,both gleaned from his Viking relatives.
Comment by Ceri Shaw on January 5, 2009 at 5:44pm
A recent article on this topic can be found here:-
Prince Madoc and the Legend of White Indians
This might also be a good time to reprise some recent history. The Madoc Plaque was not blown away by Hurricane Andrew but removed by the Alabama Historical Association for reasons which are stated in one or other of the blogposts referenced below. This led to a n international campaign led by Janice Gattis of the Alabama Welsh Association for its restoration. Others including Dave Parry, ( Chicago Tafia ) Carwyn Edwards ( Welsh League of Arizona ) and myself played a supporting role in galvanising Welsh and American Welsh opinion in support of the campaign. This campaign was ultimately successful...see THIS ARTICLE .
Here is a list of our blogposts ( some of them rather lighthearted and/or mischeivious ) on this topic from the Americymru Blog:- Madoc Plaque Posts on Americymru
And here is the online petition with over 2000 signatures:- Restoration of the Commemorative Welsh Prince Madog Plaque to Mobile Bay
Comment by ArthMawr on January 5, 2009 at 2:55pm
May-Doc? - I have been to Mobile Alabama where the "Mad Dog" river was supposedly named for Mad-doc. There in the genealogy section of the public library they have a file of Madoc related articles. I went to see the plaque only to be told it had been torn down by hurricane Andrew.

I have not read Olsen's book but my two favorite on the subject are Madoc: The Making of a Myth by Prof. Gwyn A. Williams. This book explores both the origin of the legend and it's subsequent influence on different generations of Welsh immigrants to America. Although he gently dispels the chances of the story being based on fact, it is a great exploration of the mindset of Welsh Immigrants and their aspirations for the New World.

Also worth a read is Richard Deacon's Madoc and the Discovery of America. This is a very thorough exploration of all the evidence amassed to support the legend. Deacon seems to want to believe it but, unlike many writer's on the subject, restrains his passion and explores the evidence objectively.
I am a passionate Padouca hunter and admit that the legend inspired my interest in coming to America and I am always delighted to discuss elements of this wonderful and powerful legend.

Madoc: Old Madoc Group Comment Wall - @ceri-shaw

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:38:25 +0000

Comment by gaabi on March 22, 2012 at 11:21am
Reposted for Bee Richards reposted from "Help Us To Interview Bernard Knight":
Hello Bernard, still in the limelight I see. I would like to ask you a question about your interest in Madoc Ap Owain Gwynedd. I appreciate the research which you have done on this subject. Do you personally believe in the validity of a legend which is shrouded in the mists of time, but which has a high probability of truth. Hope you are keeping well, Bee Richards
Comment by Ceri Shaw on March 22, 2012 at 10:39am
Please post ALL comments and discussion on the Madoc issue to this group....diolch
Comment by Bob Levoy on March 17, 2011 at 4:36pm
Prince Madoc Ap Owain Gwynnedd is my 20th great grandfather.
Comment by BEE RICHARDS on April 2, 2010 at 4:27am
Hi there Bill, part of my power point presentation is on the Madoc Website which will give you the location of where he was born. near Bettws y Coed, Snowdonia. All the details are given b riefly on that article, coupled with photos. Read the article I wrote as well and log on to Madoc 1170 there is loads of information in an article written by Professor Bernard Knight a world leading authority on Madoc.
Best................................. Bee
Comment by Bill Tillman on April 1, 2010 at 5:44pm
Yes Ceri I will compete at The Night of the Living Bards. Still doing reasearch on Madog's brother, sister and mother and where exactly he lived in Powys.

Comment by Ceri Shaw on April 1, 2010 at 3:34pm
Hi Bill...will you be competing at The Night of the Living Bards? We're drawing up a list of contestants at the moment and I need to keep it updated so that everyone gets their allotted time.

Cofion

Ceri
Comment by BEE RICHARDS on April 1, 2010 at 3:15pm
Bill it sounds marvelous. Let me have a copy when you have finished writing it. I would love to be there to hear you read. But.......... Best......... Bee
Comment by Bill Tillman on April 1, 2010 at 2:40pm
Madog's Water Dragon Adventures, a legend to unfold. The untold story of a Draig-Uisge [water dragon] lady of the sea á Tlan Tia, and Prince Madog's secret friend. Tales for Night of the Living Bards.

Comment by BEE RICHARDS on November 30, 2009 at 5:07am
There is so much circumstantial evidence that it would have been possible for Madoc to have completed such a journey. Why for instance were there soooo many rumours of a dialect of Welsh being spoken? It was physically possible with the wooden boats of the time with such shallow drafts to could negotiate the deep parts of rivers and to be pulled overland to the deeper parts which could be navigated. This was the method used by the Vikings in Europe to navigate the rivers. As Madoc was deemed to have Viking ancestry and to have been educated in matters of the sea, this is possible, surely. Best..... Bee
Comment by mona everett on November 29, 2009 at 8:52pm
I believe!
Comment by BEE RICHARDS on November 29, 2009 at 12:39pm
Hello Peter, can you conclusively prove that Madoc DID NOT visit America. It would be an interesting topic. Best..................... Bee
Comment by peter williams on September 18, 2009 at 12:46pm
Despite some fervent believers in the Madoc legend, I'm still awaiting proof. I dismiss the legend in my books "Wales and the Welsh" and "The Book of Wales." I still have not been struck by ligntning (the curse of Madoc). Peter N.Williams.
Comment by mona everett on September 18, 2009 at 7:09am
For a little diversion and a creative outlet--check out the Three-Word Story Group:
https://americymru.net/community/forum/three-word-story

We are currently working on writing an updated series of Mabinogi tales!

Mona
Comment by Richard Williams-Ellis on August 20, 2009 at 3:48am
Dear Madoc Group Colleagues, I am delighted to have discovered your existence this morning and to have joined you, looking forward to sharing knowledge. I see several among you who I have been in touch with before. For just a little initial background, a few years ago I established "The Prince Madoc Quest Society" here in North Wales, where I live. This has consisted of a few members only, either from Wales or from North America. Besides further research into the Madoc Legend, an ultimate objective would be to recreate the 1170 Voyage of Discovery with a "replica"(?) ship built locally. To explain a certain additional personal interest in his exploits, Prince Madoc is generally believed to have been a half-brother of my ancestor Prince Rhodri ap Owain Gwynedd.....Richard W-E
Comment by Suzie Morris on January 23, 2009 at 5:35am
I've been interested in this story for some time and have finally turned my research in this direction. It's a fascinating story whether true or not, but in my Welsh heart - I'm thinking true!

I've just received some printed matter on the topic......very fascinating.
Comment by Janice on January 21, 2009 at 10:46pm
Thank you for the kind words. It would not have been a success without all the help I received from each of you! I am very proud and pleased to be a part of the Madoc discussion group. The main thing is to continue to talk about Madoc in hopes of reaching more people each day.
Comment by David Alan Edwards on January 21, 2009 at 10:34pm
WOW I need to put more time into the site ,I have read about the Mandan tribe as well and have wanted to learn more about them. Is Madoc part of them ?
Comment by Ceri Shaw on January 21, 2009 at 8:50pm
The Madoc discussion group would like to extend a special welcome to Janice Gattis of the Alabama Welsh Association whose tireless efforts to restore the Madoc Plaque last year led to eventual success. See their website HERE for more details.

Croeso!

Madoc: Prince Madoc - @arthur-w-ketchen

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:55:46 +0000

Prince Madoc

Posted by Arthur W. Ketchen on January 22, 2009 at 3:15am in Madoc
Getting back to you with this shot. I have been horrendously busy for several days. You who subscribe to the publication will no doubt shortly see the fruits of same, which had to do with several fronts. Let me comment on the Welsh legacy of America, which Madoc is part of.
The Welsh in America have always been there, whether obviously or implicitly. They have hid in broad daylight. Much of the story of Wales in America is fraught with irony. So with Madoc. The story was seized upon by the Tudors to justify their claims in the New World. It was also(like the story that Native Americans being one of the twelve lost tribes of Israel) used to explain what to European Christians(until the arrival of Darwin and scientific exploration of wider truths about the history of mankind and the world) was the inexplicable-a group of humans(who the US Supreme Court had to declare human) who did not fit in to the Biblical: Asia, Afica, Europe explanation of history. Which Celts(as in the Galatians, and of course the Gauls and British and Irish did).
This is not to say that there might not be a kernel of truth there. It is said that in a riverbend in Kentucky(as I had read some years back) remains were discovered in the ruins of a fort, which were said to be wearing armor with Welsh coats of arms. The Mandan nation(who were decimated by disease) were a Native nation which were said to have Welsh objects and to have some connection in descent.
In New Hampshire by the way, on the grounds of a powwow my wife and I once went to there is a recreated Mandan dwelling. There are many storys from Celtic lands of visits to a new world. St. Brendan, Prince Henry Sinclair, and of course there are the Viking(which also have some Celtic figures in them) chronicles-which have been borne out at places like L'Anse au Meadow.Another Celtic link, and possibly credible one, considering the technical possibility and the context, is that Breton fishermen,of course not wanting the Paris government to know about it, were off the coasts of Maritime Canada in the mid-late 1300s and perhaps even before.
The Welsh history in America continues. I might add this paraphrased from the song by Robin Williamson-Liberty: By The Office Our Thomas Swore. By The Sorrows Our Morgan Bore. By The Office Our Abraham Swore. By The Brunt of Battle General Thomas Bore. That Gave Us Liberty. The quest for liberty,the defense of liberty(noted by Giraldus Cambrensis),and the desire to travel to find liberty, are part of that continuing Welsh story in the New World. Possibly started so long ago by one prince of Gwynedd.

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Reply by Amanda Kotter on January 28, 2009 at 1:08pm
Thank you for this post. Very interesting! Just when I think I am up on Welsh history...

Amanda
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on February 8, 2009 at 3:31pm
You and me too Amanda Best Bee

Madoc: Madoc Books and Documentation - @gaabi

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:34:47 +0000

Posted by gaabi on January 21, 2009 at 2:23pm in Madoc
In this discussion I want to post good books on Madoc and links to or pix of documentation.
John Good recommended Ellen Pugh's Brave His Soul: The Story of Prince Madog of Wales and His Discover... which is there on Amazon and I ordered a copy of that.
Ceri recommended Gwyn Williams' Madoc: The Making of a Myth (Oxford Paperbacks)

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Reply by Fionnchú on January 21, 2009 at 5:44pm
Look up "Absent Minded Prof'" with his Amazon US "So You Want to...Read About" list on "The Legend of the Lost Welsh Colony in America." Richard Deacon's 1966 "Madoc & the Discovery of America" is featured here in the reading list as encouraging its factually grounded Mandan ties. Other titles mentioned incorporate fiction into their reimaginings of what may have transpired. Also link there to an entry for Paul Muldoon's book-length poem "Madoc" and my 2005 Amazon review. Rate my musings on it if you'd like!
See for related claims for pre-Columbian European settlers: The Atlantic Monthly , January 2000. Marc A. Stengel. "The Diffusionists Have Landed" .
Reply by Fionnchú on January 23, 2009 at 12:02pm
Thomas Stephens in 1858 wowed the neo-Druidic establishment and angered the Eisteddfod Fawr Llangollen with his essay that debunked the legend with his "scientific" approach to the tale's foundations. Emyr Humphreys narrates the event well in "The Taliesin Tradition" (144-47, 3rd. ed. 2000). Stephens' essay has been scanned into an internet archive from its 1893 edition; plenty of typos and ugly formatting remain. "The Discovery of America in the Twelfth Century by Prince Madoc ab... .
Reply by Hanes Cymru on February 2, 2009 at 11:19am
Look at the library pages on the intranet at www.bangor.ac.uk . If anything listed there is of any use then let me know and i can copy it up onto the internet. The university has got a massive Welsh library so there should be something there

Madoc: Strange Ceri started this discussion - @dom-stocqueler

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 03:22:27 +0000

Strange Ceri started this discussion

Posted by Dom Stocqueler on January 20, 2009 at 11:42am in Madoc
as I received the following comment on my web site yesterday (I'm sure they don't mind me sharing with you all)
A "Prince of Wales" by Blood
Bezahn (Greetings),
I am a Shawnee Native American who shares blood with a Prince Madog who came to America in 1170. Through an unfortunate confrontation with my early Shawnee people, the Welsh descendents of Madog here in America, and the descendents of his Welsh settlers, became Shawnee Native Americans through no choice of their own. They were our prisoners who were adopted into our tribal group hundreds of years ago. Some are part of the Mandan people in North Dakota today. My particular people are still living near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, our ancient homeland. However, most are not now aware of their bit of Welsh heritage.
At one time, we spoke Algonkin mixed with Welsh, but after about 1830, we were forbidden to speak either by our white government. So now I don't speak either. They are lost.
For those of you in Wales who still speak your language, please never let it die! Teach your language and your history to your children, or it will be lost too quickly.
Thank you for your bit of history of Wales. I have much to learn about my long ago ancestor, and the history of his country. It seems as though your Welsh people have suffered under the English, as my people have here in North America under the English armies.
Only your people suffered under the English much earlier than my people did.
We fought them in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). And many times before and after that date, as well. We took many of their Yengese (English) scalps. Finally by the mid-1800's, we were being overwhelmed by white settlers; mainly Scots, English and German immigrants to America.
Our government in America today is basically an extension of the English government. Our American government does not treat our Native American people fairly. Never have!
Sadly, the "take-away" from Native Americans never stops! And since the white American government failed to kill all of us, they now refuse to "recognize" who we really are! Sad, indeed! I really believe that our government wishes that we would all just disappear! We won't give them that satisfaction!
I am the last "wisdomkeeper" of our Shawnee-White Madoc people (the keeper of oral history). I am making every effort to put what I know to paper. I am trying to conduct research here in America on this historical anomally, but funding is a real problem. No-one whom I have approached for financial grants will take me serious. Maybe they think me to be crazy, I really don't know?
The Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society (both in Washington, D.C.) don't even respond to my letters to them. Maybe they don't want to give up their belief that Christopher Columbus "discovered" American in 1492, 322 years after Prince Madog and his Welsh settlers stepped ashore in America? Actually, Columbus never laid eyes on the continent of North America; he only "discovered" Haiti, and the fact that he was "lost at sea"! He and his Spaniards did some terrible things to the Native Americans in the islands to the south of us. They almost deliberately exterminated them. He is no hero!
So, lacking funding at the moment, I am "dead in the water" to move forward on research.
Maybe one day in the future, I will be able to visit Wales. It will be a sort of "homecoming" in a way, for myself. For me, such a trip would be the completion of a "circle" that began in 1170 in Wales.
American Indians believe in the "power of the circle"! With my Indian people, the circle is sacred. It is "the beggining and the coming back of all things"! A never-ending circle!
Life is a circle from birth to death to rebirth with the Creator. The seasons are a never-ending circle. The sun, moon and stars, as well as Mother Earth are circles. The wind in it's greatest power, moves in circles.
The birds make their nests in circles, as the Creator has taught them to do. They carry our prayers higher up to the Creator. We wear their feathers to honor them for this kind deed.
The circle is sacred! What goes out, always comes back, even it if takes a while!
Take care my Welsh friends,
Ken Lonewolf / Shawnee-White Madoc Native American
Charlotte, N.C.
USA

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Reply by Amanda Kotter on January 28, 2009 at 1:04pm
Wow, thank you for this interesting post! I had no idea of the connection between The Natives and The Welsh. I have no Native blood in me, but my niece and nephew do. Makes me wonder if there is a connection.

Thanks!
Amanda

p.s. Is it true that the Hopi Tribe never succumbed to the so-called treaties?
Reply by Alison Hill on January 30, 2009 at 8:14pm
Fascinating account which I've heard of many times. An acquaintance of mine at PBS in Denver was looking into this a while back. There is a lot of evidence that Columbus was not the first of course...the Vikings were said to have travelled this far. This person sounds interesting!
Reply by Howard Evans on February 18, 2009 at 7:15pm
Aho Ken, I am a 1st generation Welsh-American living in Montana. I have been adopted by the Crow tribe because of my understanding of the First People's plight. In my opinion, the only available scientific proof of the Welsh influence is through genetics. I would urge you to contact people who are actively engaged in exploring this avenue of scientific study.

Additionally, I would also urge you to write the oral history of the Welsh Connection. Much veracity is lost through the telling and re-telling, but parts of the basis of the story usually remains. Perhaps some elders have stories which have been handed down. Document whatever you feel pertains to this strain of exploration.

Customs and traditions also carry the heritage of the First People and their contact with the "blue eyes." Since the Europeans were a distinct minority, their influence may not be as strong as we might think.

Mostly, don't give up.

Howard
Reply by gaabi on February 18, 2009 at 7:29pm
Wow, Howard that's a GREAT idea! The people at Oxford Ancestors do this kind of testing and they could track it down and show the connection! And if you had that, NO ONE could argue with it, it would be proof! I bet that would be a way to get people to take it seriously and be willing to put money and effort into it.

What do you think Ken? You should get Brian Sycke's book, "Vikings, Saxons and Celts" where he talks about what he does and the DNA analysis he's done in the UK. He founded Oxford Ancestors , did a survey that proved the origin of the peoples of the south sea island nations, mapped the DNA of the UK, contributed to the Ghengis Khan genetic survey in Europe and could really do this. He could identify your DNA and where it came from.

Madoc: Prince Madoc, did he or didn't he? - @gaabi

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:33:05 +0000

Prince Madoc, did he or didn't he?

Posted by gaabi on January 20, 2009 at 1:33pm in Madoc
I think on one side people want to think this is true, it sounds good, and on the other side it's discounted out of hand - it sounds ridiculous, there's no evidence to support it, it's a load of fabrication.
My own opinion is sort of open, I haven't seen any persuasive evidence that it's true yet but I remember when people didn't believe oral history which said that the Norse had reached the North American continent before Columbus either and that was proven to be incorrect. We have oral history that says that Madoc existed and came here, it's not impossible that it could be true, we'll see what's discovered as time goes by. Oral history has many times later proved to be true.
Here's a veeery interesting blog post on this subject, which also mentions Ken Lonewolf and the discovery of an ancient harbor at the site of Madoc's alleged debarking, Rhos-on-Sea:
http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2007/07/did-welsh-prince-settled-in-americas.html
Lonewolf, 67, from the Pittsburgh area, believes he is descended from a tribe of Welsh Indians and is working on persuading U.S. authorities to release samples for DNA testing and carbon dating.
'Our last Shawnee leader was named Chief White Madoc; this name must have been passed down for many generations," says Lonewolf. "This was our chief who sold our village to white settlers in the late 1790s. This is not a figment of my imagination, but a matter of county court record dating to the late 1790's or early 1800's.'"
Ken, do you know where we could get that record? I'm hunting online to see if anyone has put it up.
As to the Mandans being descendants of Madoc, no one has ever produced any evidence that the Mandans spoke any Welsh and people who actually met them said they didn't. I haven't met any Mandans or heard their opinions myself.
Below is a weirdly good article on the Mandans on a Slovenia tourism site:
"http://www.turistica-slovenica.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Itemid=35
and quotes Welsh explorer John Evans, who visited and studied the Mandan in 1796, "hoping to find proof that their language contained Welsh words. Evans spent the winter of 1796-97 with the Mandan but found no evidence of any Welsh influence. In July 1797 he wrote to Dr. Samuel Jones 'Thus having explored and charted the Missurie for 1,800 miles and by my Communications with the Indians this side of the Pacific Ocean from 35 to 49 degrees of Latitude, I am able to inform you that there is no such People as the Welsh Indians'[16]."

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Reply by John Good/Sioni Dda on January 20, 2009 at 2:08pm
John Evans, was said to be an alcoholic in is latter years, who contradicted this statement ("no such People as the Welsh Indians") more than once when in drink. He also worked for the Spanish (?) government for a while, after being jailed as a British spy I believe. Not entirely reliable, especially when you think that Spain apparently paid for his drink and didn't want any other people laying claim to the New World.
I also thought that there were more than thirty words in common between Mandan and Welsh??
I wrote an article for the Desert Shamrock some years ago (linked below). If it's not all true. I hope it's entertaining. Hwyl Sioni Dda.
http://tramormusic.com/articles.html

Reply by gaabi on January 21, 2009 at 2:13pm

Thanks very much for that, John. I found the Ellen Pugh book on Amazon and ordered it. I started a new discussion on Madoc books and we can all add things we find to that. I was a paralegal for years and my bent is documentation, documentation, documentation and credible documentation at that. That's what I always want to find and see for myself.
Reply by Fionnchú on January 20, 2009 at 3:33pm
I'm a newbie to this network, so I will try to tread firmly but politely. I confess decades of research, for academic and personal aims, of Irish investigations but a semi-dormant concurrent interest in Welsh cultural, nationalist, and linguistic connections to Ireland. Now, I am trying to learn more about the Cymric side. Please be gentle with me!
My interests also include medieval British literature and medievalism, thus my curiosity in how Celtic tales get revamped by later storytellers. Madoc's been on the back burner although I've yet to read my copy of Gwyn A. Williams' study; I am halfway through his "When Was Wales," however.
By the way, I've reviewed a couple of titles that are germane. In passing, Emyr Humphreys' "The Taliesin Tradition" brings up Madoc in the American context as a rallying point for Welsh colonization. I posted about TTT on my own blog (see link to my review on my blog URL at my profile) only ten days or so back, and on Amazon US. Humphreys accepts the power of the legend but remains skeptical. If I may say so as a medievalist, a great-grandson of a man killed for his Land League activism for the Fenians-- found drowned in London over a century ago-- and as someone aware of how we moderns make sense or nonsense out of a presumed or real Celtic past, I'd caution romanticists about taking distant rumors and inflating them into what people centuries later want to wish. That's the appeal and the danger of Celtic revivals.
While I remain sympathetic to Ken Lonewolf's claims, I am also sure that he and anybody involved in serious searching of this vexed question about Madoc wants to follow truth and not conjecture. The Mandan-Welsh similarities rumored may be a treacherous foundation, for this tenuous and often coincidental tallying up of soundalikes reminds me of British Israelites who argued that Brit="covenant" and Ish="man" in Hebrew, so voila-- British had a Hebrew origin. Linguists to my recollection deny Mandan-Cymraeg cognates; seekers of alternate paths to wisdom denied by scholars may believe otherwise. As a Celt myself, whatever that revived term means thousands of years on, I acknowledge both a tug of my soul and the restraint of my mind.
Madoc has a tangled context. Iolo Morgannwg's involvement in the publicizing of John Williams' account in 1791 should be noted. He did not always rely on facts, to say the least. Madoc was told to bolster Welsh emigration, it was promoted to counter Catholic colonists and Spanish threats, and it was popularized earlier by John Dee, who coined the term "British Empire," in his support of Welsh backing and co-option of that people and that polity within Elizabethan imperialism. Madoc was used to extend royal power.
I read a few years ago the Irish poet Paul Muldoon's 1990 "Madoc" book-length sequence on Amazon US-- it's as formidable, erudite, and enigmatic as his other verse, I warn you, very loosely based on Robert Southey's 1805 epic. And, just last night, with no idea about this group yet, I was browsing Meic Stephens' "The New Companion to the Literature of Wales" (2nd ed. 1998). I found its entry on "Madoc." Here's the final three sentences, after it relates Madoc's 1858 debunking by Thomas Stephens. This entry seems to strike the right balance between skepticism and possibility; I admit I was surprised by its open-minded tone.
"It was probably a legend concocted in the sixteenth century to counter Spanish claims to the New World and to stress Elizabeth I's rights as heir to the Welsh princes. Yet, bearing in mind the strong Viking connections of the rulers of Gwynedd and the fact that Viking voyages across the Atlantic are accepted as germane, the Madoc story is not wholly incredible. There is no serious navigational argument against it and references in Welsh poetry, the account of William the Minstrel and early Spanish maps can be interpreted to give it credence." (s.v. 476)
P.S. Forgive me for a first post that may repeat earlier comments, but as I happened to find this only last night, I figured I'd leap into the friendly fray. Thanks for your comments in return, and I hope I can learn from this discussion. Hwyl pob ichi.
Reply by Dai Williams on April 9, 2010 at 12:28pm
Well if Madoc was Irish or Scotish, then there would be no question, he would have done it and it would have been bigger and better than Columbus as well. So should we should shout and make it known he did. No question.

Madoc: 1170 Madog - @americymru

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:31:43 +0000

Bezahn (Greetings),My name is Ken Lonewolf of the Shawnee-White Madoc group of Native Americans. As the last "wisdomkeeper" of my people, I carry oral history. My tales point to the 1170 Madog to America, not to an earlier Madog. However, Vikings and Albans (early Scots) may have preceeded the 1170 Madog to America by hundreds of years. My people have tales of Vikings on the Great Lakes here in America. This goes back in time farther than the 1170 Madoc, and these blonde haired white guys weren't Welsh!
My people called them the "Yellowhairs"! There is evidence of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read Farley Mowat's books on this subject.My focus is on the 1170 Madog and his Welsh settlers. My Shawnee people had a confrontation with these people sometime in the 1300's on the Spaylaywathepi (Ohio River to you white Europeans). O-Y-O is really our land across that river to the west!We took many prisoners after this battle, mostly women and children. They became Shawnees.DNA wise, I may be a direct descendent of Prince Madog who arrived here in 1170. I believe that I am walking proof that the 1170 Madog arrived in America.Are there any more of we Shawnee-White Madocs left? We hold an annual Lenni-Lenape pow-wow in western Pennsylvania every August. However, we don't identify ourselves as white. We are part of the Shawnee nations.
We ceased being identified with whites a long time ago when they came here to steal all of our land! That's when the brutal fighting began!I do not adhere to the beliefs of Blackett, Wilson and the late Jim Michaels. I respect their opnions, but based on what I know, I cannot agree with them on an earlier Madoc to America.The Snowbird Tsulagis (Cherokees), the wisdomkeepers of their people, only have tales of my 1170 Welsh people.Stories within my tribal group says that we trace to the Welsh captured in about 1300 on the Ohio River. None earlier!I believe that the late Jim Michaels and his followers were looking in all of the wrong places.My Shawnee-White Madoc people have been "hiding in plain sight" in western Pennsylvania all along. The Mandan who share a reservation with the Hidatsa and Arikira people in North Dakota today, are our "blood brothers".
Before we were "run over" by Europeans in the 1700's and 1800's, as well as by our white American government, we shared a common European language with the Mandan people when we met in council in the 1700's, which is fairly recent history.Yes, I would also think that someone in Wales would be interested in the fact that the 1170 Madog, (possibly one of my long ago grandfathers), "discovered" America for the Europeans 322 years before Columbus managed to get himself lost at sea and washed up on shore with the flosam at Haiti, never setting eyes on North America. We Native Americans spit on this foul person's name!British Armies sent against us in the French and Indian War (1754-1763) met us on many battlefields in western Pennsylvania. We defeated every one of their armies.
The worst defeat that they suffered at our hands was at the battle of the Monogahela in 1755. We and the French literally slaughtered them! Score: roughly 29 lost on our side combined, compared to their losses of roughly 1,000. We were the "worst nightmare" of the British and the British-Americans! LOL! My Shawnee 4x great-grandfather, Willenawah (Great Eagle) fought in this engagement, and many more.The "Bloody Nineties" (1790's) was particularly brutal. We defeated two complete fledgling U.S. Armies. We weren't about to submit to these white landgrabbers!Our Shawnee War Chief, Tecumseh, was killed in battle during the War of 1812, in Canada. He was not part Welsh.Funding for research is a real problem. I have requested funding from the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society and other organizations, but I never receive replies. I can only surmise that they think that I'm crazy.
Oh well! My hometown in Pennsylvania was our last village site. This is a matter of county court record from the 1800's. Not some thousand year old documents or some dusty old myths! Our Chief White Madoc sold this village to white settlers in the early 1800's. He was disgusted with the numbers of whites flooding our lands.He moved away to distance himself from them.Also, be careful when collecting DNA sample from early Native Americans, since my Lenni-Lenape people originated on the Asian continent more than fifty thousand years ago, from the area of present day Persia. We scattered all over the North American continent. And we weren't the only Native American people to do so!
Europeans also migrated from this same area of the Mid-East region into Europe, so there will be some matches as far as DNA is concerned. That does not prove that these early people to America came from Wales with a "King Aurthur or Merlin the Magician"!Plus, we do not appreciate whites digging up our ancestral people! We now have laws forbidding it!I have been involved in putting bones of Native American people obtained from museums back into Mother Earth where they belong! In this matter, I am very militant!For those of you who wish to see a photo of myself in my Shawnee regalia, I am on the cover of a Welsh magazine "Y Gasglwr", whatever that means. It was published sometime in 2007. Sorry, I don't read Welsh. I also appear in the center of the mgazine "Yr Enfys" which I am told means "The Rainbow".
Hope this is correct. It is the Summer 2007 issue.
Ken Lonewolf

Madoc: Ken Lonewolf - @americymru

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:40:19 +0000

Ken Lonewolf

Posted by Ken Lonewolf on January 20, 2009 at 12:32pm in Madoc
Please do not call my people "Welsh Indians", but refer to my people as Shawnee-White Madoc Native Americans. That is the proper term for us. And please don't call our Mandan brothers in South Dakota "Welsh Indians" either. They may be part Welsh, as we are, but they are Mandan Native Americans. They may have adopted a few Welsh people in the distant past, but they are not Welsh.
Prince Madog may well be one of my long-ago grandfathers, but make no mistake, my Native American heritage is primary. Your Welsh people became Shawnees through no choice of their own. They were captives. My particular Shawnees did not become Welsh people. They became us through adoption.
My people near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at one time prior to about 1830 spoke a combination of Algonkin mixed with Welsh, which we called our "white grandmother tongue". We did not use the term "Welsh" for our words, but the European settlers whom we fought in the 1700's in western Pennsylvania told us that some of our words were of the Welsh language.
And these 1700's European settlers were looking at Shawnees who weren't too happy with these white settlers "squatting" on our lands without our permission, most of these squatters being Scots and Germans. We forcibly removed many of them. The warfare with them and the hated Yengese (English) lasted for over sixty years without a break (1754-1814).
We Shawnee-White Madocs were some the "savages" that the British and British-American armies met in battle in 1754-1755 near Pittsburgh, when they came to steal our land. We were their worst nightmare!
They never won a battle fighting against us in the French and Indian War (1754-1763)! British Col. George Washington being one of the many whom we defeated every time he went against us. His Virginians were particular "targets" for my people! Washington personally started this war in 1754 when he came to steal our land in western Pennsylvania. We never forgot who started this warfare, and they were going to pay dearly. Many a dead Englishman had dirt stuffed in his mouth to satisfy his "hunger" for our land.
By the mid-1800's, we were simply being overwhelmed by white Europeans. After the War of 1812, we scattered in the local area. Many of us are still there. No "myth"involved with us!
You can believe these words, or you may dismiss me as some sort of crazy person, that is your choice. However, I am the last "wisdomkeeper" of my Shawnee-White Madoc people, and I carry the oral history of my people.
Take care my Welsh friends,
Ken Lonewolf / M'Weowa-Ni of the Wolf Clan of the Shawnee-White Madoc Native Americans
My e-mail address is: lonewlf99@aol.com

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Reply by John Good/Sioni Dda on January 20, 2009 at 12:52pm
Thank you / Diolch i chi M'Weowa-Ni / Ken Lonewolf, we will use your name, Shawnee-White Madoc Native Americans, with greater care in the future.
As Welsh-Americans / AmeriCymry we appreciate your sensitivity in this matter and applaud you in your efforts to set history straight! Diolch eto/thanks again, Sioni Dda/John Good
P.S. Are there any recordings of your traditional music? As a musician and Welshman I'm very interested in this area.
Reply by Martin C N Williams on January 20, 2009 at 12:57pm
Hi Ken,
It is good of you to share the history with us and we should never diminish your self and your people by calling you by a name you do not want or deserve. The name Welsh also has a sad history behind it (meaning Foreigner or slave), and was given ironically be invading foreigners, so we should know better and should act accordingly. Maybe we should push the true name for the Welsh people which is Cymru (pronounced Kimree) meaning something like "family".
Please pass on your knowledge so that the oral tradition can persist and people like your self can defend history and truth.
Martin.
Reply by Fionnchú on January 20, 2009 at 3:21pm
The English-born, of Welsh parentage, critic Stephen Knight in "A Hundred Years of Fiction," his study of the past century's Welsh writers in English, comments that we should discourage the use of "Welsh" for the language and promote "Cymraeg." I wonder if this has gained more acceptance? The substitution of "Cymric" as an adjective for "Welsh" never seemed to make it, although people tried this around 150 years ago.
Reply by Martin C N Williams on January 23, 2009 at 9:51am
HI Fionnchu,

Cymraeg is indeed the Welsh word for the language. However, I believe linguists use the word Cymric and I have seen it in use quite frequently. Makes me wander what the Irish word is for their Language. e.g they use the word Gaelic but I do not think that is a Gaelic word. Any one know.
Reply by Fionnchú on January 23, 2009 at 12:29pm
I want to thank both Martin & Tam. A quick return to my question: I wonder if there's headway in reclaming more Celtic terms used in English discourse for "Welsh" identity? Cymru, Cymric, Cymraeg, maybe even the Latinate or geological Cambrian? There's an inherent problem in using the Saesnag terms for one's self-definition, unlike the Irish Celtically-derived counterparts.
Don't want to get off track too far from the Madoc thread, but pedantry makes me clarify that "Goidelic" (cf. "Brythonic" for the other branch of the Celtic languages) is primarily a linguistic and slightly antiquated term. The "Gaelic word" in Irish is not "Goidelic," for that's a coinage from "Gael." In Irish, that is, "Gaeilge," we'd use that particular word for the Irish language.
Often in the diaspora, I find "Gaelic" substituted, but that leads to confusion with "Scots Gaelic," so the adjective tends to be added to distinguish its Irish from its Scots version.
Either usage beats the fusty Hibernian rendering-- dangerously open to punning-- to "Erse," however! There's a tendency to use now "Irish" vs. "Scots Gaelic" it seems. And in Scotland they tend to say more often "the Gaelic" (as in a shorter "a" for "Gallic") vs. Irish usage of the longer "a" sound. ! You can't simply refer linguistically in Gaelic to "Scots" alone-- as that's linked to their venerable version of English there!
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on January 20, 2009 at 3:12pm
Hello Ken, good to hear from you. Glad to know you are still out there. Thought it had gone quiet on Madoc and that this site was a good place to launch discussion on my pet topic. May be some new information will come to light and maybe a lot more people will become acquainted with something which is fascinating and very probably true. Best........ Bee
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on January 23, 2009 at 2:22pm
Hi Ken, going over to see the stone forts and whatever else we can find out in April. Any suggestions????
Best........................ Bee
Reply by Martin C N Williams on January 26, 2009 at 10:09pm
Hi Ken,
Interesting to hear about the Roman sentry stations. North Wales and especially Gwynedd has a long known special relationship with the Romans. As a Prince of Gwynedd and son of Owain, Madoc was descended from the men who drove out the invading Irish (known then as Scotti or pirates). I think this was in the sixth century AD. These men were a mix of Roman descendants, (Romano British), and the Votadini tribe (Roman Name), a great and powerful tribe that originated in what is now East Scotland, but called Gododdin today (pronounced God-Othin I think). They were also accompanied by a horde of Manau Picts. I could go on but I should get to the point. If any else who can correct or elaborate on my previous words please do. So I would say that it is quite possible that Madoc and his followers were well acquantied with such construction.
Another interesting historical fact is that the Votadini built very large forts in Britain such as atTrapain Law (pictures are on the web) and their name literally means the "fort dwellers". So there is a long history of fort building for the people of Gwynedd. The irony today is that they now live in the shadow of Norman-English castles.
Martin.
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on February 8, 2009 at 3:28pm
Hi Ken, thank you so much for the info. i will email you with a more detailed itinerary. Where were the European locations Would be interesting to compare. Bee
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on February 8, 2009 at 3:38pm
Hi Ken, cannot find your email address. My computer was down over Christmas. if you would like to send it to me on my email address which is b.richards83@ntlworld.com I would love to hear from you. Best..................... Bee
Reply by Morgan Hen on January 21, 2009 at 4:50am
The great chief Tecumseh was a Shawnee, was he not? A great defender of the traditional ways of the Shawnee peoples against that of that the whites. I dislike referring to your people as Native Americans or Indians. I understand that Tecumseh fought with the British in the war of 1812.
Reply by Claudio Vincent Williams on January 21, 2009 at 4:15pm
Very interesting Ken, my respects to the Shawnee-White Madoc Native Americans.

Madoc: Britanishan - @david-john-jones

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:25:26 +0000

Britanishan

Posted by David John Jones on March 22, 2012 at 4:20am in Madoc
Dear Ken,
I apologise to everyone I am new to this blog procedure, should I continue with this elsewhere, will someone kindly direct me to the “correct” place for this particular discussion? Further:- Am I now in the correct blog?
Ken, I am of the Ancient “Britons”, Cymru (now known as Welsh) of the “indigenous peoples” of our lands that was called “Britan” or “Britanishan”, which is now called the British Isles. Please note: - I am not a European . The only people that could have entered into America at the time of the first archeological evidences of implements found in the Americas is at about 20,000 BC, are the “Ancient Britons” who are now called the Welsh Irish Scots and other Roman and Saxon names. Please note: - The Romans and Saxons etc are Europeans who invaded of our Britanishan lands of the “Ancient Britons”; please note:- “Ancient Britons” . I say this because there are proven evidences of this. I am not trying to hijack your history Ken I am providing matters of fact according to the archeological and historical evidences to try to actually support your contention of your original people’s rightful existences in your lands; likewise I am supporting my contentions of my people’s existences in our lands, and as I say who more than possibly landed on the shores of the Americas at about 20,000 BC (what is the ancient name for the Americas?). Whether or not we are related to you Ken is another matter, and given the fact you say you have Welsh DNA then that may be correct. This evidence is explained in my book FOOTPINTS IN THE STONE and at http://www.aptwebsite.toucansurf.com
Best Regards, David J Jones.

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Reply by Clifton Aduddell on March 27, 2012 at 9:20pm
Solutrean spear points similar to those found in Britain and Europe have been found in the Americas. However, thos of the Americas appear to antedate those of Britain and Europe by about 20,000 years and would imply that contrarily indigenous Americans may have discovered Britain and Europe.
Reply by David John Jones on March 29, 2012 at 4:22am
Hi Clifton,
I am not aware of the evidences of indigenous Americans’ at 520,000 BC; but there is evidence of Ancient Britons’ are Boxgrove man at 500,000 BC; and the Red-Man of Paviland at 30,000 BC on the Gower Peninsula South Wales; where bifacial arrowheads etc were found in abundance here amongst adornments and artifacts made from mammoth bones, including bone needles for making sealskin boats etc. Also the west of Britan (or Britanishan is the ancient names for the British Isles) at this time was closer to North America and crossing would have been quite an easy task in sealskin covered boats. Specific information is in my book called FOOTPRINTS IN THE STONE all backed up with known historical and archeological evidences; see http://www.aptwebsite.toucansurf.com pages 1 to 4 and large picture page. Best regards, David J Jones.

Madoc: Prince Madoc - @huw-winston

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:21:01 +0000

Evidence Britons Were In TheUS In The 6th CenturyBy Tim MatthewsTMMatthews99@ aol.com www.kingarthur- online.co. uk
It's proof of Prince Madoc in America circa 560," say leading British and US historians.A team of leading independent historians and researchers announced today that Radio Carbon dating evidence, and the discovery of ancient British style artefacts and inscriptions in the American Midwest, provided, "the strongest indications yet" that British explorers, under the Prince Madoc ap Meurig, arrived in the country during the 6th Century and set up colonies there.Research team members have known the location of burial sites of Madoc's close relatives in Wales for some time, it emerged today; they have decided to break their self-imposed silence in order that their research be fully known and understood.
DNA evidence could provide vital new leads, they say.
TRANSATLANTIC EFFORT "We have a mass of remarkable evidence," said British historian Alan Wilson, who has been working with Jim Michael of the Ancient Kentucke Historical Association since 1989. "As experts in ancient British history, we were approached by Jim and visited locations in the Mid West with him," he added.
BAT CREEK MOUND Many of the grave mounds found in the American mid West, including those at Bat Creek, Tennessee, are ancient British in origin and design, Wilson said. Jim Michael added, "the stone tablet found at Bat Creek in 1889 included an inscription written in Coelbren, an ancient British alphabet known and recorded by historians and bards down the ages." Wilson said that his research had brought him into contact with very similar alphabet inscriptions in Britain, Europe and the Middle East. "The components of the alphabet derive from the earliest days of the Khumric (Welsh) people," he added, "and were used along their migration routes to Wales in antiquity."
A MADOC INSCRIPTION Wilson's research partner, Baram A. Blackett, said, "oncewe discovered the cipher for the alphabet in recorded in texts dating to the 1500s we knew we were in business.We have translated many of these inscriptions and they all make perfect sense." Jim Michael commented that the final translation for the Bat Creek tablet was an exciting business, "especially when we knew it read, 'Madoc the ruler he is'."
THE MADOC 'LEGEND 'Some historians have written off the evidence for Prince Madoc, the Welsh Prince who sailed to America circa 562 (AD). "They often give a false date of 1170 and this legend has replaced the facts," added Wilson. "At the moment, there is a small group of wreckers trying to steal our research and to promote this misdating. Luckily, we've done all the groundwork and have a substantial body of evidence in our favour."
ACADEMICS SLOW TO RESPOND "In Britain and America the academics have been slow to respond," said Jim Michael. "There is a theory that there was no European settlement here before Columbus, despite the evidence, but this is for political and theoretical reasons." In the UK, public bodies had, "failed to engage with this vital research effort," added Alan Wilson. "I think they're afraid that an independent group such as ours has made such progress. They prefer to ignore and neglect ancient British history rather than to deal with it. The Welsh people have suffered, and the opportunity to boost the economy, to bring thousands of jobs to Glamorgan and Gwent, where Madoc and his brother Arthur ll ruled, has not been exploited."Public bodies in the US and UK must now start to actively pursue this new evidence. DNA profiling could help identify the human remains found at Bat Creek. "It could well be Madoc himself," said Blackett. "After all, the inscription was found right next to the bones, which are currently housed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC." Wilson, Blackett and their research team know the location of Madoc's close relatives and have made significant archaeological finds at sites nearby. "So we can use Welsh DNA evidence from the graves here, and compare it with the bone fragments in the Smithsonian, " he said. "This would be of massive historical value." It is estimated that up to 20,000 jobs and hundreds of millions in tourism could be an immediate benefit in South Wales, claimed the men."In the American Mid West the results could be very similar," added Jim Michael.
IN BRIEF- Wilson, Blackett, and Jim Michael made the identification of the Bat Creek main tumulus as the likely tomb of Prince Madoc, in January 1990. Michael has been in contact with the Smithsonian with a view to its allowing the bone fragments to be DNA tested.- There are numerous ancient British Coelbren inscriptions in the American mid West.- Skulls found in some US grave mounds are of European-Caucasian origin; they do not include an Inca bone.- There was only one Prince Madoc. He was the brother of King Arthur ll and lived during the 6th Century. This is not in doubt. Ancient British manuscripts and genealogies tell us this.
ENDS."Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett They have been investigating the true history of King Arthur and the Khumric-Welsh dynasty for a total of nearly 70 years. Wilson's interest began in 1956 and Blackett joined him in 1976, when the Arthurian Research Foundation of Great Britain was started.They have written the best-selling The Holy Kingdom (Bantam, 1999) with Adrian Gilbert and self-published underground classics including Arthur, King of Glamorgan and Gwent, Artorius Rex Discovered, Arthur and the Charters of the Kings and Arthur, The War King (a historical novel).The men have lectured extensively in the UK, including Manchester and Jesus Colleges at Oxford University, and Alan Wilson gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture in Boston in 1993. Wilson and Blackett were also commissioned to produce a detailed genealogy of the Bush family by former President George Bush (senior).

Madoc: THE MADOC ENIGMA - BEE RICHARDS - @bee-richards

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:09:26 +0000

THE MADOC ENIGMA

Posted by BEE RICHARDS on January 21, 2009 at 11:35am in Madoc
Hi Everybody, I am so glad that the presentation of only a little of the Madoc information has started off what could be an extremely lively and informative group. I have read most of the literature (contemporary) on Madoc but became intrigued with the legend introduced to me by Bill Isaac a few years ago - a great proponent of Madoc here in Wales (sadly now deceased). For methe seminal work by Zella Armstrong got me really going. I have tried to read Paul Muldoon's poetic account but frankly it leaves me as wise as I started and finished.
The stone forts are another riddle but follow the lines of medeavil European military architecture, so do paintings of the inhabitants of that country by Caitlin illustrate the use of an extremely similar copy of a coracle and also some of the dwelling houses are similar to those found in Europe. This is why I have entitled my article, which was not very comprehensive just a taster of the large amount of eveidence allbeit circumstantial and unproveable.

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Reply by Morgan Hen on January 21, 2009 at 12:08pm
The Trouble with the whole Madoc story is its lack of pre16th Century evidence. It was said that it was created by the Tudors to boost their claim to the "New World"!

Is there any solid evidence from middle ages about Madoc?
Reply by Neil Hughes on January 21, 2009 at 12:39pm
Owain Gwynedd like most of the Welsh princes of the time was prolific at producing children 'out of wedlock'.Whilst these illegitimate sons had full right of inheritance under Welsh law it is likely that the lesser sons(for want of a better phrase) would keep out of the usual squabbling for power.This may explain why Madoc and his brother Rhirid were not as well documented as their more famous siblings.I mention Rhirid because I have read accounts that he accompanied Madoc on his voyage to the New World.
Reply by Neil Hughes on January 21, 2009 at 12:59pm
Whilst on the subject is there anyone on this site who knows what happened to the MADOC 1170 forum that has disappeared without trace.I used the name Glyndwr(very original) on aforementioned site if anyone can help I would be grateful.
Reply by Ceri Shaw on January 21, 2009 at 1:38pm
Hi Neil...it's still there. See discussion posted in this group below:-

A Note on Previous Forum Discussions of this Topic

We wanted to host a more focused discussion on the Madoc issue. So we closed the four forum discussions linked from the post above and started this group to concentrate the debate in one area of the site. I can reopen those discussions for comments if you wish or if there is anything in those forums you want reposted here it can be cut and pasted. (Note: As of 2015 these threads have been incorporated into the current Madoc Group )
Reply by Neil Hughes on January 21, 2009 at 1:54pm
Diolch Ceri but it wasn't on Americymru it was madoc1170.com started by a guy from S.Wales(Ithink) who had the idea of making a film about Madoc.It ran for quite a while then disappeared into cyberspace.I recall that there where quite a number of Welsh-Americans on the site and was hoping one or two may be on here.
Reply by Ceri Shaw on January 21, 2009 at 1:57pm
Ahhhh right....I wasn't aware of that site. How long ago was it around?
Reply by Neil Hughes on January 21, 2009 at 2:34pm
It ran for a year or two,Ceri,then vanished last year.
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on January 21, 2009 at 1:24pm
Hi there, this seems to be the case. Although his half brother David was married to the half sister of the English King. Southey's poem although only fiction states he came back to Wales and regaled them with tales of the new world he had found. Was the ill fated so called expedition financed by family money with pretensions to Welsh Imperialism?????????????????????????????????? Makes one think
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on January 21, 2009 at 1:27pm
There does not seem to have been any systematic archealogical investigation of the 'StoneForts' that I have read of. if anyone can correct me on this or offer to throw any light on it. That would be wonderful. Best...... Bee
Reply by Fionnchú on January 23, 2009 at 12:57pm
For Morgan Hen's question two days ago: Simple summary from s4c: Madoc: Medieval Evidence? The site also has a brief intro and a look at post-1500 evidence (or its lack).

The Bad Archeology site I've linked to in an earlier post scrutinizes the Welsh-language texts and runes themselves marshalled in favor of Madoc.
Reply by Ned Phillips-Jones on January 21, 2009 at 2:02pm
I've recently been doing some research on this topic. I've looked into reports by Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett (web site: http://www.kingarthurslegacy.com. I also found a scholarly article by Dr. J. Huston McCulloch in which the author details a thorough examination the Bat Creek Stone (on which Wilson and Blacket's Madoc theory relies). The site with the article is www.midwesternepigraphic.org/bat-creek.html. McCulloch concludes that the stone is genuine after comparing marks made since the stone's discovery with the inscriptions on the stone. According to Wilson and Blackett, the inscriptions are in ancient Coelbren and read "Madoc the ruler he is". I attempted to contact Wilson and Blackett through their site to inquire about any recent progress, details of a Coelbren-inscripted sword supposedly found in America that is pictured on their site and DNA research supposedly being performed. I've got no response as of yet (I contacted them a week ago). I'll give updates if new information comes to light.
Reply by Neil Hughes on January 21, 2009 at 2:32pm
Just been on the Wilson and Blackett site,Ned. Absolutely fascinating.Like all celts I am a dreamer and despite conflicting evidence would love the story of Madoc to be true.What a kick in the teeth for the Saes if it was fact.

Madoc: Madoc International Research Association - @gaabi

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:43:37 +0000

Madoc International Research Association

Posted by gaabi on January 20, 2009 at 1:49pm in Madoc
http://www.madocresearch.net/

This site doesn't look finished, there's a forum but annoyingly no documentation is posted there.

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Reply by Neil Perry on April 18, 2010 at 4:50am
Hi I agree the site is not finished Mira (Madoc International Research Society) has just renewed the fee on the website and hopefuly we will have a lot more on it plus a discussion forum in the very near future
Reply by Neil Perry on April 18, 2010 at 5:47am
I'm secretary of MIRA, our President is Professor Bernard Knight MD, BCh, MRCP, FRCPath, DMJ(Path), FHKCPath, FFFMRCP, FRSM(Hon), MD(Hon), DM(Hon), DSc(Hon), PhD(Hon), LLD(Hon) and Barrister of Gray's Inn, London and he has received the CBE from the Queen,as you can see a very learned man.He has written many books but only one on Madoc some 30 years ago.We have researched as much as we are able to find concrete proof of Madoc's epic journey but so far haven't found any.I notice the title of this site as Richard Kimberley's firstly we don't have a Richard Kimberley, we do have an Howard Kimberley as a member, Howard has his own site www.madoc1170.com . We are now attempting to look up the genealogy links between us and America hoping to discover some connection pre-Colombian
Reply by Kathryn Pritchard Gibson on June 22, 2010 at 8:18am
Please could you change the name Richard Kimberley to Howard R. J. Kimberley.
Howard's web site is www.madoc1170.com and he can be contacted by email howard@madoc1170.com

History Channel US have recently made a Documentary 'Who Really Discovered America?'
Part of this tells the story of Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd. It will be screened starting on Tuesday 22nd June 2010.
The story of Madoc ab Owain sailing across the Atlantic from the coast of north Wales in the latter half of the twelfth century has entered folk myth, and there are many later accretions. For instance, Madoc was NOT born in Dolwyddelan Castle; it was built by his nephew Llywelyn Fawr decades later.
What is certain is that the voyage was certainly possible at that time as there was a great tradition of boat building and seamanship along the west coast of Britain.
Reply by gaabi on June 22, 2010 at 12:15pm
Thank you very much for posting this information.
I just removed the name "Richard Kimberley" as Richard Kimberley is totally wrong and apparently this isn't Howard Kimberley's site in the first place, correct? Can't remember where I got the "Richard Kimberley" originally, maybe I got that link from some other site.
Can you tell us what MIRA has found so far, even if it's just oral history or inconclusive? Can you tell us about MIRA itself?
Reply by Kathryn Pritchard Gibson on June 22, 2010 at 1:13pm
I dont personally know what recent information the group MIRA have found. I am not a member but I do know that their motives are genuine and that Professor Bernard Knight is scrupulous in presenting the findings.
I also know that Howard Kimberley has been researching into Madoc for over 20 years, and that he has been involved in the recent History Channel project as an advisor. It is Howard Kimberley's personal research that several others have copied and pasted and are using as their own without crediting him for that fact. Howard genuinely aims to try to find the truth behind the legend of Madoc, and NOT try to invent fictions and jump on the band wagon (as some are clearly doing) to gain financial reward for himself in the process.
The History Channel documentary might in itself open more doors and bring in additional sources of information. It is a fascinating subject.
Reply by gaabi on June 23, 2010 at 12:27pm
Sorry, I was trying to address that to Neil Perry, as he said he was the secretary and I somehow addressed it to you!
I looked at Howard Kimberley's site and it looks very good! There's a page, "evidence" http://www.madoc1170.com/evidence_2.html that gives information and sources and is excellently and academically written, he describes John Dee's contributions dispassionately, not worshipfully, which I very much liked.

I hadn't heard there was a History Channel production, is this something that's already aired? Sorry for asking, I'm googling and I can't find anything on it. Do you know anything else about it? I'd love to see that.
Reply by Kathryn Pritchard Gibson on June 23, 2010 at 1:31pm
The History Channel Documentary "Who Really Discovered America" went out for the first time on June 22nd. Haven't seen it myself yet, but understand that a copy is on its way to Wales. (Expect that the Producers will have tweaked the bare bones of the story to produce something more sensational.) The story of Madoc's voyage is only one part. What it will show is the early communication links by sea which so often gets overlooked.
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on April 28, 2012 at 10:43am
I wonder who is jumping on the Madoc bandwagon in order to gain monetary advantage. There is plenty of PUBLIC evidence out there on Madoc;
Reply by John Charles Davies on April 29, 2012 at 7:40am
Sadly there are several individuals who claim to be 'historians' who have simply jumped on what they see as a potentially lucrative bandwagon and tried to make a name for themselves by using the Madoc story for their own ends. At the opposite end of the scale there are individuals such as Bernard Knight, Howard Kimberley and Kathryn Pritchard Gibson who have sifted through the European prime source evidence for this story in a mediculous, methodical manner, shared their findings freely, and deseve full credit for their efforts. Others who have not followed their scholarly, painstaking approach have added fictions to fictions and set genuine research back in the process. The Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd story surfaced in the Tudur period when Elizabethan England particularly needed to make a claim to the Americas. There is NO evidence that ithe story existed before that time.
Reply by BEE RICHARDS on April 29, 2012 at 9:35am
There are many people who have researched this subject, in a scholarly and academic fashion. It is not only a select few who have done this but many people have contributed people like Zella Armstrong, in modern times who wrote a definitive book on the probability that Madoc left Wales. I have studied the currents eg., the gulf stream, the shipping of the time and coupled with (allegedly) the background of seamanship of the individual it is possible that he got there. I have visited some of the sites in America where allegedly Madoc and his people are supposed to have settled. It is quite a possibility. There is also the school of thought who say that the stone forts, inscribed stones and so on are of prehistoric origin, who knows.
I did leave a powerpoint on the site, and unfortunately some of the slides were omitted, there is one which shows the site just opposite to Dolwyddelan cast of the (alleged) home of Madoc.
Reply by John Charles Davies on April 29, 2012 at 12:10pm
Zella Armstrong's book 'Who Discovered America? the amazing story of Madoc' was published in 1950. Zella's European sources are all Elizabethan and onwards. Nothing whatsoever before that time.These original Elizabethan sources have recently been scrutinised in depth and it has become clear that there is nothing whatsoever to substantiate the story. Inventions grew on inventions from the time that John Dee started the ball rolling in the heady days of Elizabethan Empire building and expansionism, with a specific purpose in mind. Anyone who has looked into the Madoc story in depth can only conclude that there is not one single shred of European documentary or other evidence prior to the sixteenth century. To claim otherwise sets the genuine study of history back and unfortunately creates a false platform. (Modern scholarship has also proved that the 'Madoc was born at Dolwyddelan' story is also a fiction.)

RUGBY: Archived Material - @ceri-shaw

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Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on October 31, 2012 at 10:57am

    Phil Bennett's memories of that day (9-3)

    www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Phil-Bennett-day-Llanelli-beat-Blacks-gr...

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on July 19, 2012 at 1:15pm

    Not familiar to me either, Jack, but clearly he was a great player and a great sportsman. Extraordinary that he went 3 rounds with Rocky Marciano too!

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on March 17, 2012 at 11:03am

    SPOILERS!!! Dare I say anything? Let's just say that Merv will be smiling.

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on March 17, 2012 at 8:25am

    There's an article by Delme Parfitt in yesterday's South Wales Echo (New Roof Won't Put a Dampener on Wales Grand Slam Mission). No one knows if the GPS thing is just a theory or if Les Bleus are just being naughty and trying to wind us up (perish the thought!). They've just shown some film of Merv on BBC.

Comment by Brian Stephen John on March 17, 2012 at 4:11am

    I wonder if the French players have machine-readable GPS microchips implanted in their skulls? The mind boggles...

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on March 17, 2012 at 3:53am

    Sheer joy to see those films. I hope Merv has a lovely rugby pitch where he is, bless him.

    I expect you've read about the French refusing to have the roof closed whatever the weather because of their players GPS! What would the 70s players have said about that?!

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on February 27, 2012 at 8:41am

    I assume you've got the 14 minute one. I think Gareth's drop goal is a thing of beauty. Too few drop goals in the modern game. Got all nostalgic and watched John Taylor taking "that" conversion against Scotland. Also been watching Jean-Pierre Rives (I had a crush on him back in the day) and remember little Jacques Fouroux?

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on February 27, 2012 at 7:58am

    Oo, er, Swansea, excuse us for living! Buffoonery? How can you call Ryan and Ronnie buffoons? I thought Gareth did rather well on the soft shoe shuffle and it was in good fun. I was going to tell you about the bit of film I found of Wales v France 1978 but I don't think I'll bother now....so yah boo sucks.

Comment by Gaynor Madoc Leonard on February 27, 2012 at 2:44am

    Gareth appeared on Ryan a Ronnie, singing and dancing. It's good fun. I tried putting a link in but it came out wrong. If you just go to YouTube and search for Ryan a Ronnie - Gareth Edwards, you'll get it.

Comment by Brian Stephen John on February 27, 2012 at 1:23am

    Ah yes -- the muddy try -- one of the greats! and how about the match on Saturday? Blood and guts from beginning to end -- one of the hardest matches I've ever seen. England making a full contribution....... but in the end a great win -- it was always going to be won by a mistake by one side punished by a bit of individual magic on the other. And Scott Williams delivered on the day....

Roman Wales: Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Fort Restored in CGI - @ceri-shaw

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:25:45 +0000

Great video from CADW!! Segontium (Caernarfon) Roman Fort Restored in CGI

From the wikipedia:-"Segontium is a Roman fort located on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales. The fort, which survived until the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, was garrisoned by Roman auxiliaries from present-day Belgium and Germany. It was the most important military base and administrative centre in this part of Britain.".... more here

Roman Wales: A Silurian Capital? - @ceri-shaw

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:07:21 +0000

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A map showing the relative positions of Caerwent and Llanmelin hill fort. The hill fort is just above and to the left off 'Llan-melin Wood" at the top of the display.

It was long thought by historians that the iron age hill fort at Llanmelin was a tribal center or captital of the Silures, the ancient Brythonic tribe of south Wales. This belief was based on the fact that the fort is a short distance from the later Roman civitas capital at Caerwent ( Venta Silurum ). The theory was that the Roman settlement was established here in order to entice the tribal elders down from the hills with promise of hot baths, wine, women and song. The comforts of Roman urban life would of course exert a civilising influence upon the tribesmen and distract them from thoughts of war and rebellion.
This presumption has since been abandoned for three main reasons:
Llanmelin is a a small fort, only 5.4 acres in area and Caerwent is not much further from what was once a much larger fort ( see map below ) at Sudbrook on the Severn estuary.
It seems more likely that Caerwent was chosen because of its close proximity to the Severn ferries at Beachley and Sudbrook.
It is very possible that the Silures lacked centralised control and were in fact a loose confederation of smaller tribes, and family groups.

I thought it might be useful to have a thread on hill forts and pre-Roman tribal organisation in the group. So, if anyone has any pics of Welsh hill forts or any insights into Roman or pre-Roman tribal organisation and lifestyle, this is one place to post

Sudbrook hill fort on the Severn estuary. It once occupied a larger area but much has been lost to erosion. The site of a ferry crossing in Roman times, Sudbrook is now close to the Welsh end of the Second Severn Crossing, see map below, bottom left.

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Pubs of Wales: The Teifi Netpool Inn - @steve-gilbert

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:26:01 +0000

I live in St Dogmael's, Pembrokeshire, about a mile from the town of Cardigan. If anyone is ever in this area I'd recommend my local, the Teifi Netpool ( http://www.teifinetpoolinn.com/ ). It's a friendly local pub, good beer from local breweries, the food is also good and it's located on the banks of the river Teifi with lovely views down river.
There's been a resurgence in small, local breweries recently - 4 have opened in the last year - and I'd thoroughly recommend trying "Cwrw Teifi" from the Mantle brewery ( http://www.mantlebrewery.com/ ) - it's usually on draught at the Teifi Netpool.

Writing: Archived Material - @ceri-shaw

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 03:50:38 +0000

Philip evans November 27, 2014 at 2:20pm
PEACE OFF
“ What do you make of those candles on those German Trenches?” asked Private Robert Graves.
“ Flame-thrower attack?” he questioned.
“ Don’t know, give us a look?” replied his Brother-in- Arms Siegfried Sassoon.
The mirror, attached to a stick was raised up above the 10 foot muddy trench on the Ypres battlefield that formed part of the Western Front.
The two Allied soldiers, both of German descent looked at each other in bemusement.
“ I don’t know…never seen anything like ..but then again I am a poet not a fighter!” said Sassoon.
“ I must say though Sassoon …. your hair under that tin helmet is fabulous….how do you keep it so clean with all this bloody mud around?” asked Graves.
“ I can’t tell you…it’s a family secret ….well I never?” said Sassoon.
“ What?” asked Graves.
“ They are tying Christmas decorations to the front of them now….one….two… he continued counting……I reckon there are ’99 red balloons’ over there now!” said the exasperated Sassoon.
“ Are you winding me up?” asked Graves used to his comrade’s sense of humour.
He put his foot up on the wooden ladder and peeked over the top.
He was taking a big chance, as many of his Sussex Regiment had ‘bought it’ from sharpshooting snipers.
The boys at the Front, lived in constant fear of being shot, both by the Germans and their own Officers too- if they refused to ‘go over-the- top’.
Graves and Sassoon had seen many of their friends butchered in No-Man’s Land caught between a searchlight and barbed wire and for what ?
To die for King & Country, fighting over 50 yards of mud on the Franco-Belgium border.
“ Perhaps they have been infused with a little Christmas spirit rather than the usual mustard gas?” suggested Graves.
“ Well it is Christmas Day 1914 tomorrow….perhaps we should join them by singing some carols….it’s not like we are giving our position away…. we haven’t moved forward for a month…we have become ‘entrenched’…!” said Sassoon.
“ Listen…I can hear THEM singing now!” said Graves.
“ I wonder what Carol it is?” asked Sassoon.
“ Probably ‘God Rest you Jerry Mental-Men!” suggested Graves.
The pair collapsed in laughter.
“ Do you realise, this is the first time that I have laughed since we were back in Blighty!” said Sassoon…looking haggard , tired and much older than his tender 28 years.
“Come on….let’s raise our own spirits ..look what I pinched from the Officers Mess!” said Graves.
He reached into a mud-hole where he had stashed his stolen ‘booty’.
It was a leather football with laces… it had seen better days ….but was still a football.
“ Right… you be the Woolwich Goalkeeper…..….and I’ll be the Brighton forward…..said the Sussex man.
The game started in earnest, as the pair stopped watching the other trench and had a game of keepie-uppie.
Their record was 28 headers, knees and boots.
Just as they were on 27, Graves over-stretched and ‘Mullered’ the ball up high out of the trench ,over the top into No-Man’s Land.
The German sentries followed its flight with a torchlight fearing a gas or bomb attack.
Amazingly, it was not shot down by the German snipers.
The ball landed mid-way between the two trenches.
“ Now look what you’ve done….you could have started World War 2 with that mis-kick!” laughed Sassoon.
“ Go and get it then or face a firing squad?” ordered Graves sarcastically.
“ I’m NOT going out THERE…not with my shiny hair…I’ll be picked off quicker than you can say ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary!” said the Poet.
“ Besides.. it’s YOUR ball…I’m not getting Court-Martialled for that offence!” said Sassoon.
“ I am already in trouble for hanging out my washing on my Siegfried Line and causing that Red Baron Von Richthoffen to strafe us from his plane!” said Sassoon.
“ I reckon if you go and bring that ball back your act of bravery, will end up in a ‘War Graves Commission’!” he cajoled.
“ Nice one!” replied Robert.
“ Send those Huns to sleep first…read then some of your poems…!” suggested Sassoon.
Robert knew he would have to be brave, like a Roman General about to cross the Rubicon, he took a few deep breaths and told himself he was descended from good stock, ‘I Claudius’ he said- trying to instil courage, as he crawled up out his trench on all fours towards the silent ball.
His nerves were jangling , he expected at any moment to feel the impact of a Berlin bullet.
He had been warned by his fellow soldiers that you never HEAR the bullet that kills you.
Passing dead comrades and the decaying remains of horses used as cover, he inched his way on his empty dysentery-suffering belly towards the pig’s bladder.
His mind was telling him to return to the safety of his lines, but his body kept moving forward, on autopilot – a legacy from his Aldershot training camp- the voice of his Drill Sergeant driving him on towards the object of his desire.
As the beams of light fell on poor Graves , out in the open on a battlefield, he knew he was as good as dead.
He reached inside his coat for his pencil to write a last few lines of the poetry he loved so dearly.
He had told his comrades, he would write on the inside of his clothing a message for his loved ones back in England.
‘Three lines on a shirt, Sassoon’s hair still gleaming, thirteen weeks of hurt, has never stopped me dreaming…’ he read aloud until he hit writer’s block.
Graves always found it hard to finish off the last line of his poetry.
“ Pssst Englander…!” said a Teutonic voice.
“Vott about Fussball’s Coming Home?” suggested a German in a foxhole six feet away from him.
Graves jumped visibly.
He reached around for the gun he had left behind in the Allied Trench.
He was unarmed in No-Man’s Land, in a Foreign Country and at the mercy of the entire German Army.
Graves did the only thing he could do in the circumstances.
He wished the Axis Soldier ‘a Merry Christmas’-the only German word he knew.
‘WEIHNACHTSFRIEDE’ said the petrified private.
“ IT’s CHRISSSSSMAS!” slurred the drunken side-burn clad Prussian, Norbert Helder.
“ I’m going to make a Schapps decision here… do you fancy a game of fussball?” he asked.
“ Eleven of you Tommies against us…how you say … Boche?” suggested Norbert.
“ How do I know it’s not a trap and you gun us down as soon as we leave the trenches?” asked Graves.
“ Look if I wanted to have killed you.. I Vood have…I could have ‘SLADE’ you anytime,….but it is Christmas…even the Kaiser himself has Christmas off….so why not us ‘pawns’ in this game of European chess?” said Norbert.
Graves knew he was speaking the truth.
They had told HIM the war would be over by Christmas too.
He had absolutely nothing to lose and if truth be known, strangely this soldier seemed more trustworthy than his own Officers.
He remembered Lord Kitchener’s poster and slogan ‘Your Country Needs you!” that had induced him to enlist.
After witnessing four months of death and slaughter on a scale never before seen…he felt the words ‘To Die’ had been omitted and that the master-plan of the ruling European elite was in line with Dickens ’ to ‘decrease the surplus population’.
“Well do you want to play a World War Cup match or not?” enquired another German popping up from their maze of trenches – the Siegfried Line.
Robert Graves laughed out loud.
His guffaw could be heard on both sides of the killing fields.
“ Boys….they want to PLAY football!!!” chortled Graves partly through relief but mainly because the line of the Prussian 16th Bavarian Regiment looked like a set of park railings with their spiked pickelhaube helmets sticking out of their shelled hell-holes.
“ I’m fed up of all this killing…I’ll play!” shouted the Liverpudlian voice of Private McCartney.
“ Yes…let’s give peace a chance!” said Lance -Corporal Lennon.
Within seconds, where there once fear and mustard gas there was now hope and alcohol.
And more important than life or death itself – there was Football.
Corporal Shankly, a Canny Scot , climbed out and set up some jumpers for goalposts.
He was matched on the other side by a Private Schultz, who wanted to be a ‘boon’ to his Aryan Nation by playing goalkeeper.
A Corporal Schickelgruber tried to muscle in on the action but was sent packing by the rest of the soldiers.
The loner was told he could either be the referee or ‘clear off’ to find some ‘Lebensraum’ of his own.
“ Do you not like that guy then? “ asked Graves as the match kicked off.
“ Of course not !” said Helder….” I’m Jewish!”
“ We shaved both sides of his moustache off when he was sleeping to make him look ridiculous!” he continued.
The match descended into a mad kick- and- rush as the ball couldn’t go far, sticking in the cloying mud, until that is the referee awarded a dodgy penalty against the English for ‘Hans-ball’.
Klinsman took it and scored then dived into the mud sliding wildly into the deep trench towards his kinsmen.
Immediately, from kick- off when half the German team was still celebrating with their Bierkeller steins aloft, the Allies scored as Pele took a ball from Sly Stallone and lobbed the keeper.
Graves hugged Sassoon in a non-homosexual way to celebrate the goal.
The Germans, like Sassoon look ‘shell-shocked’ at the equaliser.
Private Edward Woodward however, was much more alert, as he took the ball off the sour Kraut defence and burst into the penalty box, denoted by a series of war-horse intestines, and struck a sweet shot which rebounded off the keeper to the Midfield-General suited to the conditions under foot- Rodney Marsh.
2-1 to Sussex & Lord Chelmsford’s Boys and it seemed for a time that ‘the only way was Essex’.
Until the machine that was the German High Command, started to use their height advantage by lofting the ball up towards their ‘Luftwafe’ and the In’fuhrer’ating little referee gave a second penalty this time for an innocuous looking foul by defenders Skinner & Baddiel.
Attila scored to make it 2-2.
And with seconds left before Christmas Day came , a Midnight Mass brawl erupted, as the ball was lobbed high into the air landing on the head of Sergeant Boris Becker who leapt into the impromptu net with the ball impaled on his spiked helmet to claim a 3-2 Victory for the Huns.
Adolf Schicklegruber allowed it to stand and the rest they say was history.
Captain Nobby Stiles was furious.
That Damned ‘buster’ raid had cost them the match.
Unable to take a referee being biased AGAINST him, the Manchester United stalwart threw his false- teeth down into a puddle of filthy water and then jumped up and down in protest on the Austrian referees’ notebook.
“ Nein…nein …Mein Kampf !” warned the little Dictator .
Too late, the warning was not heeded and Nobby’s swearing and angry dancing on the spot, was to prove fatal, as he was blown to Kingdom- come by a land- mine.
The explosion caused both sides to run for their respective trenches , with Nobby’s horn-rimmed glasses landing back over the British Lines.
“ They think it is all over!” said Fusilier Ken Walthamstowe.
“ Well Nobby is!” quipped Private Lineker.
With the first ever recorded football hooligan event over- the two sides recommenced their shooting at one another.
As Graves threw himself for cover behind Lieutenant Rowan Slackbladder, his Commanding Officer asked him what Nobby said to the Germans to make himself spontaneously combust.
“ I think he told them Peace Off!” shouted Graves at the enemy.
The Germans responded by singing ‘Vun Vorld War and Vun Vorld Cup’.
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    Ceri Shaw November 28, 2014 at 7:43am

    LOL...had to think for a minute about the Sassoon family secret Good to see you back on form Phil.
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        Philip evans December 4, 2014 at 3:23pm
        Thanks Ceri....as long as I can raise a smile ...I have done my job....Phil'Boz' Evans
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Ceri Shaw November 13, 2014 at 2:05pm

Great idea Gaab Cant imagine why we didn't start a writers group years ago. It should be a handy place to make announcements about eto, the WCE competitions, the Bookstore etc. And on that note:-

WCE Online Short Story & Poetry Comps

The deadline for submissions is November 30th. Here are the group urls if you are interested in submitting entries:

Short Story: http://americymru.net/group/west-coast-eisteddfod-online-short-stor...

Poetry: http://americymru.net/group/west-coast-eisteddfod-online-poetry-com...

eto

We hope to have eto out on Kindle before Christmas and the hard copy out soon after. Meanwhile we are accepting submissions for eto 3 which will be available in late February next year. I will start announcing contributors on the eto blog and in this group shortly.

Welsh American Bookstore

New interviews with Sarah Stevenson and Norma Lloyd-Nesling

http://www.welsh-american-bookstore.com/index.php/Interviews/truth-...

http://www.welsh-american-bookstore.com/index.php/Archives/intervie...

That's all for now...more news soon.

The Welsh List: Welsh Connections in Australia and New Zealand - @americymru

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:49:18 +0000

( reproduced with kind permission from the Chicago Tafia website )

Welsh Connections in Australia and New Zealand

Admittedly I am slightly out of my depth outside when it comes to Welsh connections outside of the US borders, this list is slim at best and a work in progress, if you see any errors or would like to add any listings please contact us at: WelshChicago (at) gmail.com
The following is a list of Welsh businesses, shops, pubs, wineries, churches, societies and musicians that we are aware of in the area so far.
Australia
Beth Nesaf Network for Celtic Heritage
Website: www.bethnesaf.net
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian National Eisteddfod Society
Room 14a, Ainslie Arts Centre
Elouera St Braddon ACT 2612
Website: www.nationaleisteddfod.org.au
Canberra Welsh Society
Website: www.welshaustralian.com/canberra
New South Wales
New South Welsh - Welsh Society of Sydney
Website: http://www.newsouthwelsh.com/
Newcastle Welsh Society and Bro Hunter
Website: http://www.newcastlewelshsociety.com/
Sydney Welsh Choir
Website: www.swc.org.au
Wollongong Welsh Choir
P.O. Box 898
Wollongong East
NSW 2520
Website: www.members.optusnet.com.au/~bwrobertson
Dylan Thomas Society
Website: www.dylanthomas.org.au
Harp Divas - The Voice of the Harp
Website: www.harpdivas.com
Meinir Ann Thomas - Soprano
Website: www.meinirthomas.com
Dysgu Cymraeg - Learn Welsh - Welsh Language Classes Sydney
Website: www.newsouthwelsh.com/language.php
South Australia
Siobhan Owen
Website: www.siobhanowen.com
Siobhan is an up and coming Welsh-Australian singer from Adelaide, South Australia. Born in
North Wales to a Welsh father and Irish mother, she has certainly inherited the rich singing tradition of her Celtic roots.

Victoria
The Welsh Australian
Website: www.welshaustralian.com
Plaid Cymru Melbourne and Oceania Branch
Website: www.plaidaus.org
Welsh Language Classes Melbourne
Website: www.welshaustralian.com/Welsh%20Class.htm
Melbourne Welsh Choir
Website: www.melbournewelshchoir.com.au
Victoria Welsh Choir
PO Box 1181
Mountain Gate, Vic 3156
Australia
Website: www.vicwelsh.asn.au
Australian Welsh Male Choir
PO Box 42
Frankston, Vic 3199
Phone Number: 0425 725 525
Website: www.auswelshmalechoir.org.au
Pendragon Dreaming
Website: www.pendragondreaming.com
Pendragon Dreaming is a Welsh-language folk group based in Melbourne, Australia.
Welsh Church
320 LaTrobe Street
Melbourne, Victoria
The tradition of Welsh Calvinist Methodism began in Wales in 1735 and continues in the heart of Melbourne in this church erected in 1871. It is the only church in Australasia still conducting regular services in Welsh.
Western Australia
Welsh Society of Western Australia
Website: www.wawelshsociety.org.au
New Zealand
North Island
Auckland Welsh Club
Website: www.aucklandwelshclub.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21203790650
Welsh Society of Wellington
38 Whaui Street
Vogeltown, Wellington, 6021
Website: www.welsh.wellington.net.nz
Welshman Restaurant and Bar
133 Tongariro Street
Taupo, New Zealand
Phone: +64 7 377 2914
Website: www.welshman.co.nz
Welsh Dragon Bar & Scorpio's Restaurant
Middle of the Road, Cambridge/ Kent Terrace
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: 644 385 6566
Auckland Welsh Choir
Website: www.aucklandwelshchoir.co.nz
Welsh Gymanfa Ganu Association New Zealand
228B Ranolf Street
Rotorua, 3201
South Island
The Welsh Cambrian Society of Canterbury New Zealand
12 / 4 Sails Street
Christchurch, New Zealand
Website: http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/welshsociety

The Welsh List: The Welsh List Canada - @americymru

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:48:16 +0000

( reproduced with kind permission from the Chicago Tafia website )

The Welsh List - Canada

The following is a list of Welsh and Welsh-Canadian businesses, shops, pubs, wineries, churches, societies and musicians that we are aware of in Canada.
This directory is a work in progress, if you see any errors or would like to add any listings please contact us at: WelshChicago (at) gmail.com
Alberta
The Saint Davids Welsh Society of Edmonton
Box 11682, Main P.O.
Edmonton, AB T5J 3K8
Phone: 780-456-2515
Website: www.edmontonwelsh.ca
British Columbia
Victoria Welsh Society
Website: www.victoriawelshsociety.org
Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir
P.O. Box 2978, Stn. Main
Vancouver, BC V6B 3X4
Phone: 604-878-1190
Website: www.vwmc.ca
Manitoba
The St David's Society of Winnipeg/Cymdeithas Dewi Sant Winnipeg
Website: http://web.mac.com/keith_davies_jones/iWeb/Site/Homepage.html
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ontario
The Ontario Welsh Festival & Ontario Gymanfa Ganu Association
Website: www.ontariowelshfestival.ca
St. David's Society of Toronto
Website: www.dewisant.com/stdavid
The Ottawa Welsh Society
Website: www.ottawawelshsociety.com
The Peterborough Welsh Society
1004 Hatfield Cres.
Peterborough, ON, K9H 6L8
Website: www.peterboroughwelshsociety.org
The Burlington Welsh Male Chorus
2459 Grenallen Drive
Burlington, Ontario
Canada L7P 1W1
Website: www.burlingtonwelsh.com
Gwyndaf Jones
Welsh Tenor based in Toronto
Website: www.thewelshtenor.ca
The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir
33 Melrose Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5M 1Y6
Phone: 416-410-2254
Website: www.twmvc.com
Dewi Sant Welsh United Church/Eglwys Unedig Gymraeg Dewi Sant
33 Melrose Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, M5M 1Y6
Phone: (416) 485-7583
Website: www.dewisant.com
Prince Edward Island
The Prince Edward Island Welsh Society
90 Maplewood Crescent,
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island,
C1A 2X6.
Canada.
Website: www.isn.net/friartuck/cymraeg.html
The Romany Rest Inn
834 North Royalty Road
Georgetown
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Phone: (902) 652 2131
Website: www.romanyrest.com
Email: enquiries@romanyrest.com
Québec
Montreal St David's Welsh Society
Website: www.stdavidsociety.montreal.qc.ca
Montreal Welsh Male Choir
St.Laurent, Quebec H4M 2N7
Phone: 514-744-4242
Website: www.welshmalechoir.montreal.qc.ca
Saskatchewan
St David's Welsh Society Of Regina
234 Michener Drive,
Regina, Saskatchewan, S8V 0J2
Canada
Yukon

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Welsh Connections in the United States

The following is a list of Welsh and Welsh-American businesses, shops, pubs, wineries, churches, societies and musicians that we are aware of in the United States.
This directory is a work in progress, if you see any errors or would like to add any listings please contact us at: WelshChicago (at) gmail.com
Nebraska

Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project
307 South 7th Street
Wymore, NE 68466
Phone: 402-421-8192
Website: www.welshheritage.org
St. David’s Welsh Society of Nebraska
Website: www.mathiaslink.com/welsh/index.htm
Postville Welsh Church
2777 29th Avenue
Columbus, Nebraska 68601
Website: www.postvillewelshchurch.org
Nevada

NyAnn Young
Las Vegas based Shirley Bassey tribute performer.
Website: www.myspace.com/nyannyoung
Steven McCoy
Las Vegas based Tom Jones tribute performer.
Phone: 702 610 6054
Website: www.therealmccoyllc.com
New Hampshire

Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Light Infantry Company – New Hampshire
Website: www.rwfia.org/Light%20Infantry%20Company.htm
New Jersey

Ninnau & Y Drych -The North American Welsh Newspaper (R)
Ninnau Publications
11 Post Terrace
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Phone: 908-766-4151
Website: www.ninnau.com
Mari Morgan
Welsh singer based in New Jersey.
134 Chestnut Street
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
Phone: 973-746-0654
Jodee James
Welsh-American singer based in New Jersey.
Website: http://jodeejames.home.att.net
The Dragonwell/Nanuk’s Igloo
321 Mill Street
Belvidere, New Jersey
Phone: 908-798-0958
Website: www.nanuksigloo.com
A Welsh owned Celtic art and jewelry shop based in New Jersey.
Llawen Farm
90 Fairmount Rd. West
Califon, New Jersey 07830
Phone: 908-255-0905
Website: www.Llawenfarm.com
Louis H. Miller – General Practice Attorney
40 Main Street
Flemington, New Jersey
phone: 908-782-1818
fax: 908-782-2821
National Welsh-American Foundation
24 Essex Road
Scotch Plains New Jersey
Phone: (908) 889-4942
Website: www.wales-usa.org
Wales North America Business Chamber
David Robertson,
IMEX Consulting Group
6 Linden Lane
Pennington, New Jersey 08534
Phone: 609-737-8160
Website: www.wnabc.com
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Colonel’s Company – New Jersey
Website: www.rwfia.org/Colonel_AC_Vivian.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Grenadier Company – New Jersey
Website: www.rwfia.org/Grenadier%20Company.htm
New Mexico

No known Welsh groups.
New York

Welsh Assembly Government – The Office of the First Minister for Wales
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue Floor 21
New York, NY 10174
Phone: 646-792-8932
Website: www.walesworldnation.com
The Office of the First Minister for Wales in New York has a remit to raise the profile of Wales in order to facilitate the building of business, tourism, academic and cultural links between Wales and the USA.
Welsh Alien in New York
Quality Welsh blog by Welsh journalist Emma Smith.
Website: http://welshalien.blogspot.com
The St. David’s Society of the State of New York
47 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212 -989-5159
Website: http://stdavidsny.org
The St. David’s Society of Utica
c/o Roger & Patricia Williams
4 Fairlane Drive
Whitesboro, New York 13492-2708
Phone: 315-768-7115
Website: www.saintdavidssociety.org
St. David’s Welsh Society of the Capital District
PO Box 3768
Albany, New York 12203-0768
Phone: 518-885-4267
Website: http://capitalwelsh.bravehost.com
The Longbow Pub & Pantry
7316 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Website: www.longbownyc.com
Stiggly Holistics
A Welsh owned holistic store in New York
Phone: 212-714-8175
Website: www.stiggly.com
Peint o Gwrw Tafarn
36 Main Street
Chatham, New York
Phone: 518-392-2337
Ceinwens Tea
129 Centerport Road
Centerport, NY 11721
Phone: 631-754-1730
Glynhafan Farm
344 Bullock Rd.
Slingerlands, New York 12159
Phone: 518-439-1613
Website: www.Glynhafan.com
InFamous Welsh Cookie and Coffee Company
24 Church Street
Hornell, New York
Phone: 607-661-2994
Website: www.welshcookieman.com
Wales North America Business Chamber
Chris Jones
69 Closter Road
Palisades, NY 10964
Phone: 845-398-0619
Website: www.wnabc.com
Wales Hotel
1295 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10128
Phone: 212-876-6000
Website: www.waleshotel.com
Hilltop Slate, Inc.
P.O. Box 201, Route22A
Middle Granville, NY 12849
Phone: 518-642-2270
Website: www.hilltopslate.com
Website: www.welshslate.com
Welsh Congregational Church
236 West 73rd Street
New York, New York 10023
Website: www.nycwelsh.org
The Welsh Community Church
Welsh Church Road
Erieville, NY 13061
Listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Services are held from the 1st Sunday in June until the 2nd Sunday in September.
Phone: 315-655-2654
Website: http://erieville-nelson.dyndns.org/~enca/churches.html
Terry Mostyn
Welsh-American musician based in New York.
Website: www.terrymostyn.com
Cartre
Welsh kitchen wear made in New York.
New York
Phone: 718-789-5081
Website: www.cartre.co.uk
The Harp & Dragon
25 Madison Street
Cortland, NY 13045
Phone: 607-756-7372
Website: www.harpanddragon.com
Dragonflower
Welsh-American harpist/harp music publishing company based in New York.
Post Office Box 8766
Albany, NY 12208
Phone: 518-453-6312
Website: www.dragonflower.com
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Colonel’s Company – New York
Website: www.rwfia.org/Colonel_AC_Vivian.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Grenadier Company – New York
Website: www.rwfia.org/Grenadier%20Company.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Light Infantry Company – New York
Website: www.rwfia.org/Light%20Infantry%20Company.htm
North Carolina

Hwyl
Welsh band based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Website: www.myspace.com/hwylmusic
Brynmor
Another Welsh band in North Carolina!!
Visit http://www.brynmormusic.com for more info and links to there Facebook, Twitter, Reverb Nation pages.

Siant Y Ddraig
Welsh band based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
www.myspace.com/siantyddraig
Seren Media
Phone: 828.633.0391
Website: www.serenmediaproductions.com
Mike’s Realty
A Welsh owned real estate company in North Carolina.
147 West King Street
Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278
Phone: 919-619-0595
Website: http://mikes-realty.com/
Anita Burroughs-Price
Welsh-American harpist based in Raleigh.
Phone: 919-781-0518
Website: www.anitaharp.com
North Dakota

No known Welsh groups.
Ohio

The Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association Headquarters
WNGGA Headquarters
P. O. Box 410
Granville, Ohio 43023
Phone: 740 587 3936
Website: www.wngga.org
Welsh Society of Central Ohio
WSCO
PO Box 12023
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: 614-470-4999
Website: www.centralohiowelsh.org
The Welsh Society of Greater Cincinnati
WSGC Treasurer,
4465 West Fork Road,
Cincinnati, OH 45247
Website: www.cincinnatiwelsh.org
The Welsh Society of Northwest Ohio
Website: www.welsh-society.org
The Jackson Eisteddfod

Jackson, Ohio

Website: www.jacksoneisteddfod.com

Cardigan Welsh Club (Oak Hill, Ohio)
Phone: (740) 682 7057
Plâs Cadnant Bed & Breakfast
4777 Cincinnati-Brookville Road, P.O. Box 9
Shandon, Ohio 45063
Phone: 513-738-4180
Website: www.plascadnant.com
Wise Choice British Foods Gifts and Candies
6171 Brandt Pike
Huber Heights, Ohio
Phone: 937-236-8153
Website: www.wisechoiceuk.com
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/wisechoiceuk
Llwyau Sgwd
Welsh Lovespoons made by an expat from Neath.
Wooster, Ohio
Phone: 330-263-5304
Website: www.waterfall-lovespoons.com
Jenkins Lovespoons
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.blakespa.com
Madog Center for Welsh Studies
Elizabeth F. Davis House
University of Rio Grande
Rio Grande, OH 45674
Phone number: (800) 282-7201 ext 7186
Website: http://madog.rio.edu/english/default.htm
The Welsh Home
Retirement home
22199 Center Ridge Rd
Rocky River, Ohio 44116
Phone :440-331-0420
Website: www.welshhome.com
Welsh-American Heritage Museum
412 East Main Street
Oak Hill, Ohio
Phone: 740-682-7057
Website: www.jacksonohio.org/welshmuseum.htm
Lillian E. Jones Museum
75 Broadway Street
Jackson, Ohio 45640
Phone: 740-286-2556
Website: http://lillianjones.museum.com/home.html
Gomer Welsh Community Museum
7365 Gomer Road
Gomer, OH 45888
Phone: 419-999-5820
Glendower Mansion
105 Cincinnati Avenue
Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Phone: 513 932-1817
Website: www.glendower.org
Glendower was built in the 1840’s by J. Milton Williams a Lebanon attorney who was Welsh. The mansion is named for Owain Glyndŵr (Glendower) the last Welsh prince.
Tyn Rhos Farm
P.O. Box 328
Ironton, OH 45638
Phone: 740-643 0543
Welsh Country Dancers of Central Ohio
Website: www.welshcountrydancers.org
Tyn Rhos Church
2822 Tyn Rhos Rd
Thurman, Ohio 45685
Salem Presbyterian Church
15240 Main St
Venedocia, Ohio 45894
Phone: 419-667-4142
Website: www.venedocia.org/churcpic.html
The Village of Venedocia
P.O. Box 611
Venedocia OH 45894
Website: www.venedocia.org
The Welsh Shop
9097 Mentor Avenue
Mentor, Ohio 44060
Phone: 440-255-2207
The Wales-Ohio Project
Website: http://ohio.llgc.org.uk
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Captain Grey Grove’s Company – Ohio
Website: www.rwfia.org/Captain%20Grey%20Groves.htm
Oklahoma

Emma Reese Blogspot
Welsh blog based in Oklahoma.
Website: http://emmareese.blogspot.com/
Oregon

AmeriCymru – Oregon Welsh Heritage Society
Website: www.americymru.com
The Welsh Society of Portland (Oregon)
Website: www.wapnw.org/welsh_pdx.html
Bryn Seion Welsh Church
22132 S. Kamrath Road,
Beavercreek, OR 97004
Phone: 503-630-5317
Website: www.wapnw.org/bryn_seion.html
Gerald Lewis & Associates
Video production services from an Ex-BBC director and cameraman.
5215 North Lombard, Ste 2.
Portland, Oregon 97203
Phone: 503-481-2543
Website: www.geraldlewis.org
Bro A Bryn Farm
P.O. Box 548
North Plains, Oregon 97133
Phone: 503-647-2330
Website: www.bro-a-bryn-farm.com
Cymdeithas Madog – The Welsh Studies Institute in North America
2670 Glen Eagles Road,
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Website: www.madog.org
Pennsylvania

St. David’s Society of Pittsburgh
Website: http://stdavidssociety.homestead.com
The Welsh Society of Philadelphia
PO Box 7287
Saint Davids, PA 19087
Website: www.welsh-society-phila.org
Saint David’s Society of Lackawanna County
Website: www.welshnepa.org
The Welsh Cultural Endeavor of Northeastern Pennsylvania
10 Skyview Drive
Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612
Phone: 570-675-0677
Saint Davids Society of Schuylkill and Carbon Counties
139 South Mill Street
St. Clair, PA 17970
Delta Welsh Heritage
Delta, Pennsylvania
Website: www.deltawelshheritage.com
The National Welsh American Foundation
143 Sunny Hillside Road
Benton, PA 17814
Phone: 570-925-6923
Website: www.wales-usa.org
Rehoboth Welsh Choir/Côr Cymraeg Rehoboth
P.O. Box 248
Delta, PA 17314
Phone: 302-368-2318
Website: http://rehobothwelshchoir.com
Harriton House
500 Harriton Road
Bryn Mawr, PA
Phone: 610-525-0201
Website: www.harritonhouse.org
Welsh Heritage Week
Website: www.welshheritageweek.org
My Grandmothers Teapot
3950 Main Street, Route 18
Adamsville, PA 16110
Phone: 724-699-8908
Website: www.mygrandmothersteapot.com
Committee for Welsh History
320 Manton Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Phone 215-462-1644
Rehoboth Welsh Church
1029 Atom Road
Delta, PA 17314
Phone: 717-456-5762
Website: www.home.comcast.net/~rbaskwil/chapel.html
United Baptist Church of Scranton (Scranton Welsh Church)
213 South Main Avenue
Scranton, Pa. 18504
Phone: 570-347-3151
Website: http://ubcscranton.org/html/about_us_.html
Capel Dewi Sant/ Arch Street Presbyterian Church
18th and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103
Phone: 215-563-3763
Website: www.archstreetpresbyterian.org/welshcommunity.html
Nebo Welsh Baptist Church
75 Prospect Street
Nanticoke, PA
Phone: 570-735-3932
Website: www.nebobaptist.org
First Welsh Baptist Church
West Shawnee & Girard Ave
Plymouth, PA 18651
Phone: 570-779-1911
Parsons Welsh Baptist Church
232 Austin Ave
Wilkes Barre, PA 18705
Phone: 570-829-2062
Welsh Congregational Church
1308 S Church St
Hazleton, PA 18201
Phone: 570-454-8376
First Welsh Presbyterian Church
398 Main St
Swoyersville, PA 18704
Phone: 570-718-4057‎
First Welsh Presbyterian Church
74 S Meade Street
Wilkes Barre, PA
Phone: 570-22-3338
First Welsh Presbyterian Church
398 River St
Forty Fort, PA
Phone: 570-718-4057
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Colonel’s Company – Pennsylvania
Website: www.rwfia.org/Colonel_AC_Vivian.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Grenadier Company – Pennsylvania
Website: www.rwfia.org/Grenadier%20Company.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Captain Grey Grove’s Company – Pennsylvania
Website: www.rwfia.org/Captain%20Grey%20Groves.htm
Rhode Island

The Rhode Island Welsh Society
Saunderstown, Rhode Island
http://rhodeislandwelshsociety.org
Ray Price – Musician and Dancer
The Rising Sun Mill
166 Valley Street
6M305
Providence, RI 02909
Website: www.raypriceonline.com
South Carolina

Charleston Tafia Welsh Society, Charleston, South Carolina
Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=240184327042&ref=ts
The South Carolina Welsh Society
Greenville, South Carolina
Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenville-SC/South-Carolina-Welsh-Society/148915168314?ref=ts
Davey Morgan Photography
Award winning Welsh-American photographer.
Greenville, South Carolina
Phone: 864-378-2248
Website: www.daveymorgan.com
Welsh Neck Baptist Church
112 Church St
Society Hill, SC 29593
Phone: 843-378-4051
South Dakota

No known Welsh groups.
Tennessee

David Llewellyn
Welsh country/folk/celtic singer based in Nashville.
Website: www.davidllewellyn.com
Website: www.myspace.com/davidllewellynmusic
Welsh at Heart – A bit of Cymru in East Tennessee
Website: http://caloncymreig.tnhillbillie.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
The Briceville Welsh Church
Highway 116
Briceville, TN 37710
Website: www.coalcreekaml.com/BricevilleChurch.htm
The mailing address for the church and restoration fund:
Briceville Church
c/o Coal Creek Watershed Foundation
3502 Overlook Circle
Knoxville, TN 37909
Texas

Derwen Holistic Therapies
Suite B
20103 Aldine Westfield Rd
Humble Texas 77338
Phone: 281-209-2080
Website: www.derwentherapies.com
Welsh owned complementary health care clinic and school specializing in reflexology and aromatherapy.
Megan Elizabeth Morris
Welsh-American Mezzo-Soprano. Megan Elizabeth Morris has competed twice on the National Eisteddfod stage in Wales.
Website: http://meganmakesmusic.com
Hywel’s Red Dragon
Texas based Welsh/Celtic band similar in style to Flogging Molly.
Website: www.myspace.com/hywelsreddragon
Utah

Utah Welsh Society
Website: www.utahwelshsociety.com
Brigham Young University Welsh Club
Provo, Utah
Website: www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/group.php?gid=7713160684
Vermont

Welsh-American Genealogical Society
60 Norton Avenue
Poultney, Vermont 05764
Website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwags
Williams & Williams Slate Co Inc.
165 College Street North
Poultney VT 05764
Phone: 802-287-4097
Website: www.home.earthlink.net/~botnybob
Welsh Heritage Program
Green Mountain College
One Brennan Circle
Poultney, VT 05764
Phone: 800-776-6675
Website: www.greenmtn.edu/about/welsh.aspx
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Light Infantry Company – Vermont
Website: www.rwfia.org/Light%20Infantry%20Company.htm
Virginia

Welsh Society of Fredericksburg
PO Box 723
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22404
Phone: 540-659-1879
Website: www.welshfred.com
Moch Pryderi
Welsh-American band based in Virginia.
Phone: 540-659-2063
Website: www.mochpryderi.com
The Welsh Teller
Welsh storytelling for children and adults.
Stafford, VA
Phone: 540-659-1879
Website: www.welshteller.com
Washington

Puget Sound Welsh Association
Phone: 206 524 0854
Website: www.pugetsoundwelsh.org
Bronn Journey
Welsh-American harpist
Sultan, Washington
Website: www.bronnjourney.com
West Virginia

No known Welsh groups.
Wisconsin

The Cambrian Heritage Society of Madison
Website: www.ripon.edu/academics/faculty/nortonm/cambrian.html
Welsh Club of the Milwaukee Area
Contact: Janis Jones Batty
W68 N361 Palmetto Avenue
Cedarburg, WI 53012
Website: www.ripon.edu/academics/faculty/nortonm/wwclub.html
Trefor Williams
Welsh musician, baritone, conductor and entertainer.
Bryn Glas
5036 W Blue Mound Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53208-3652
Phone: 414-778-1940
Website: http://mmvoices.org
The Welsh Gymanfa Ganu Association of Wisconsin
1052 Stratford Court
Racine, WI 53406
Website: www.ripon.edu/academics/faculty/nortonm/cymanfaoedd.html
Draig Goch Welsh Shop
101 Second Street
P.O. Box 244
Friesland, Wisconsin 53935
Phone: 920-348-5774
Harmony Specialty Dairy Foods
Wisconsin made Welsh style Caerphilly, Kidwelly & Abergele cheese.
C1956 Riviera Drive
Stratford, Wisconsin
Phone: 715 687 4236
Website: www.harmonyspecialty.com
Jerusalem Presbyterian Church
207 W. Main Street
Wales, Wisconsin 53183
Phone: 262.968.3408
Website: www.jerusalempresbyterian.org
Village of Wales, Wisconsin
Website: www.vi.wales.wi.gov
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales,_Wisconsin
Village of Cambria, Wisconsin
Website: www.cambriawisconsin.com
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria,_Wisconsin
Wyoming

No known Welsh groups.
Welsh Connections in Canada

Admittedly I am slightly out of my depth outside when it comes to Welsh connections outside of the US borders, this list is slim at best and a work in progress, if you see any errors or would like to add any listings please contact us at: WelshChicago (at) gmail.com
The following is a list of Welsh and Welsh-Canadian businesses, shops, pubs, wineries, churches, societies and musicians that we are aware of in Canada so far.
Alberta

The Saint Davids Welsh Society of Edmonton
Box 11682, Main P.O.
Edmonton, AB T5J 3K8
Phone: 780-456-2515
Website: www.edmontonwelsh.ca
The Calgary Welsh Society
Website: www.calgarywelshsociety.com
British Columbia

Victoria Welsh Society
Website: www.victoriawelshsociety.org
The Welsh Society of Vancouver
215 17th Avenue East
Vancouver, BC V5V 1A6, Canada
Phone: 604-876-2815
Website: www.welshsociety.com
Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir
P.O. Box 2978, Stn. Main
Vancouver, BC V6B 3X4
Phone: 604-878-1190
Website: www.vwmc.ca
David Western Lovespoons
Authentic Welsh lovespoons carved in Victoria, British Columbia
Website: www.davidwesternlovespoons.com
Manitoba

The St David’s Society of Winnipeg/Cymdeithas Dewi Sant Winnipeg
Website: http://web.mac.com/keith_davies_jones/iWeb/Site/Homepage.html
New Brunswick

The Central New Brunswick Welsh Society
(President: Mr. Cliff Humble)
PO Box 421, Station A
Fredericton, NB, E3A 4Z9
Canada
Ty Rhys Bed and Breakfast
160 Sand Point Road
Lakeville Corner, NB, E4B 1K4
Canada
Website: http://www.bbcanada.com/6881.html
Newfoundland and Labrador

No known Welsh groups.
Northwest Territories

No known Welsh groups.
Nova Scotia

Halifax Welsh Cultural Society
(Contact: Hilary Grant)
17 Borden Street
Bedford, Nova Scotia, B4A 1W1
Canada
Welsh Cultural Society of Nova Scotia
(Contact: Maureen Amos)
99 Crichton Avenue
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B3A 3R4
Canada
Nunavut

No known Welsh groups.
Ontario

The Ontario Welsh Festival & Ontario Gymanfa Ganu Association
Website: www.ontariowelshfestival.ca
St. David’s Society of Toronto
Website: www.dewisant.com/stdavid
The Ottawa Welsh Society
Website: www.ottawawelshsociety.com
The Peterborough Welsh Society
1004 Hatfield Cres.
Peterborough, ON, K9H 6L8
Website: www.peterboroughwelshsociety.org
The Welsh Society of St Davids
President: Dr Bryan Rollason,
1927 York Road, RR1
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, L0S 1J0
Phone: 905-262-0200.
The Burlington Welsh Male Chorus
2459 Grenallen Drive
Burlington, Ontario
Canada L7P 1W1
Website: www.burlingtonwelsh.com
Gwyndaf Jones
Welsh Tenor based in Toronto
Website: www.thewelshtenor.ca
The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir
33 Melrose Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5M 1Y6
Phone: 416-410-2254
Website: www.twmvc.com
Dewi Sant Welsh United Church/Eglwys Unedig Gymraeg Dewi Sant
33 Melrose Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, M5M 1Y6
Phone: (416) 485-7583
Website: www.dewisant.com
Birds of Wales
Toronto based Welsh-Canadian band.
Website: www.birdsofwales.com
Toronto Dragons Rugby
Website: www.torontodragonsrugby.ca
Cwmfelen Farm
R.R.#1
Kemble, Ontario N0H 1S0
Phone: 519 376 3590
Website: www.cwmfelen.com
Prince Edward Island

The Prince Edward Island Welsh Society
90 Maplewood Crescent,
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island,
C1A 2X6.
Canada.
Website: www.isn.net/friartuck/cymraeg.html
The Romany Rest Inn
834 North Royalty Road
Georgetown
Prince Edward Island
Canada
Phone: (902) 652 2131
Website: www.romanyrest.com
Québec

Montreal St David’s Welsh Society
Website: www.stdavidsociety.montreal.qc.ca
Montreal Welsh Male Choir
St.Laurent, Quebec H4M 2N7
Phone: 514-744-4242
Website: www.welshmalechoir.montreal.qc.ca
Saskatchewan

St David’s Welsh Society Of Regina
234 Michener Drive,
Regina, Saskatchewan, S8V 0J2
Canada
Yukon

No known Welsh groups.

The Welsh List: Welsh Connections A-M - @americymru

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:44:43 +0000

( reproduced with kind permission from the Chicago Tafia website )

Welsh Connections in the United States

The following is a list of Welsh and Welsh-American businesses, shops, pubs, wineries, churches, societies and musicians that we are aware of in the United States.
This directory is a work in progress, if you see any errors or would like to add any listings please contact us at: WelshChicago (at) gmail.com
Alabama

The Alabama Welsh Association
Website: www.alabamawelsh.com
Website: www.myspace.com/AlabamaWelshAssn
Wales West R.V. Resort & Railway Park
The park features the only authentic Welsh Victorian two foot narrow gauge railway in the Americas!
13670 Smiley Street
Silverhill, Alabama 36576
Phone: (888) 569-5337
Fax (251) 988-1950
Website: www.waleswest.com
Gower Paints Plus
Paint & Home Accessories
5375 Boiling Springs Road
Ohatchee, Alabama 36271
Phone: 256-892-0019
Alaska

No known Welsh groups.
Arizona

The Welsh League of Arizona
Website: www.welshleagueofarizona.org
Tramor (Overseas)
Arizona based Welsh band.
Phone: 623-939-0209
Website: www.tramormusic.com
Jude Johnson
Welsh-American author of ‘Dragon & Hawk’ and ‘Celtic Fire, Desert Rain’.
Website: www.scorchedhawkpress.com
Arkansas

No known Welsh groups.
California

Welsh American Society of Central California
6333 Pacific Avenue, #346
Stockton, CA 95207
Phone: 209-951-3551
Welsh American Society of Northern California
Website: www.wasnc.org
The Sacramento Welsh Circle
9657 Allegheny Drive, Sacramento CA 95827
Contact: John Ward
Phone: (916) 363 9518
The Welsh Baker
Phone: (877) 935-7422
Proper Welsh cakes made by a girl from Usk living in California! Follow on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/WelshBaker or visit the ole website at: www.welshbaker.com
Welsh Presbyterian Church
1153 Valencia St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: 818-783-2917
Ambyth Estate Winery
510 Sequoia Lane
Templeton, CA 93465
Phone: 805-305-9497
Website: www.ambythestate.com
Cambria Winery
5475 Chardonnary Lane
Santa Maria, CA
Phone: 805-937 8091
Website: www.cambriawine.com
Thames America Trading
The US importers of Felinfoel ales.
3100 Gravenstein Hwy. N.
Sebastopol, California 95472
Phone: 707 829-1101
Website: www.thamesamerica.com
Rhys Bowen
Welsh author of the award winning Evan Evans mystery series set in Snowdonia.
Website: www.rhysbowen.com
Keltic Designs
Original Celtic artwork by Welsh artist Jen Delyth
540 Balboa Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone (415) 668-0204
Fax (415) 668-2321
Website: www.kelticdesigns.com
Stained Glass by Fran
Welsh artist living in Grass Valley, California
Website: www.stainedglassbyfran.com
The Welsh Touch
Sonoma, California
Phone: 707-938-3439
Website: www.thewelshtouch.com
Cambrian Home Care
A Welsh owned homecare company with 5 locations in California.
5199 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100
Long Beach, CA 90804
Phone: 562-498-1800
Website: http://cambrianhomecare.com
Hereford Imports
101 Kalmus Dr.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-434-8440
Website: www.herefordimports.com
Hart’s Rugs and Carpets
101 Kalmus Dr.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-434-8440
Website: www.hartsrugs.com
Cymru Trading, Inc.
Hereford Imports
101 Kalmus Dr.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Phone: 714-434-8440
Tom Jones Enterprises LLC
1801 Avenue of the Stars
Suite #200
Los Angeles CA 90067
Phone: 310 552 0044
Welsh Choir of Southern California/Côr Cymraeg De Califfornia
Phone: 562-209-8184
Website: www.welshchoir.com
Judith Owen
Welsh singer based in California
Website: www.judithowen.net
Courgette Records
California record label owned by Welsh expat Judith Owen.
Website: www.courgetterecords.com
Noelle Hughes
Welsh-American folk/pop performer based in California
Sunnyvale, California
Website: www.reverbnation.com/noellehughes
Auryaun
Music label owned by Welsh American performer Noelle Hughes
Sunnyvale, California
Website: www.auryaun.com
Cariad Communications
6444 Spring Street #313
Long Beach, California 90815
Phone: 562-209-8184
CYMRU Films
Documentary and feature film Production Company.
1370 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94131
Phone: 415-641-1166
Website: http://cymrufilms.net
CYMRY Communication
P.O. Box 4731
Whittier, California, 90607
Phone: 562-692-5717
Website: www.cymry.biz
Wales North America Business Chamber
Howard Thomas, Director
532 Pine Wood Court
Los Gatos, CA 95032
Phone: 408-421-6839
Website: www.wnabc.com
Griffith Quarry Museum
Corner of Taylor Rd & Rock Springs Road
Penryn, California
Phone: (916) 663-1837
Website: www.placer.ca.gov/Departments/Facility/Museums/LocalMuseums/quarry.aspx
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penryn,_California
The Griffith Quarry Museum was the office of the Penryn Granite Works, which was established by Welsh Immigrant Griffith Griffith in 1864.
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Captain Ferguson Company – California
Website: www.rwfia.org/Ferguson’s%20Company.htm
Colorado

Colorado Welsh Society
Website: www.coloradowelshsociety.org
Canyon City Colorado Welsh Society
c/o Linny Carlson
1151 Park Avenue
Canon City, Colorado 81212
The Celtic Tavern
1801 Blake St
Denver, Colorado
Phone: 303-308-1795
Website: www.celtictavern.com
Welsh owned pub in Colorado.
The Celtic Tavern
2620 W Belleview Ave
Littleton, Colorado
Phone: 303-795-0709
Website: www.celtictavern.com
Welsh owned pub in Colorado.
Delaney’s Bar
1805 Blake St
Denver, Colorado
Phone: 303-308-1795
Website: www.celtictavern.com
Welsh owned pub in Colorado.
Cano’s Collection and Welsh Dragon Tea Shoppe
235 Fillmore Street
Denver, CO
Phone: 303-322-0654
Kathleen Guler
Colorado based Welsh-American author of The Macsen’s Treasure Series.
Website: www.kathleenguler.com
Connecticut

The Welsh Society of Western New England
Website: www.welshwne.org
The Tom Jones Fan Club
411 Coram Avenue
Shelton, CT 06484 USA
Website: www.tjfanclub.com
Jones Family Farms
606 Walnut Tree Hill Road
Shelton, CT 06484
Phone: 203-929-8425
Website: www.jonesfamilyfarm.com
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Colonel’s Company – Connecticut
Website: www.rwfia.org/Colonel_AC_Vivian.htm
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Grenadier Company – Connecticut
Website: www.rwfia.org/Grenadier%20Company.htm
Delaware

The Welsh Society of Delaware
211 Murray Road
Newark, De 19711
Phone: 302 368 4927
Website: www.Celticinfo.com
Pencader Presbyterian Church
2303 Glasgow Ave
Newark, Delaware 19702
Phone: 302-368-4565
Website: http://wikimapia.org/6800539/Pencader-Presbyterian-Church-and-Cemetery
Sian Frick
Welsh Folk Dance workshops, a Taste of Wales presentations, & Mid-Atlantic Welsh culture.
953 Devon Drive
Newark, DE 19711
Phone: 302-368-2318
District of Columbia (Washington DC)

American Friends of St. David’s Cathedral
5150 Macomb Street
Washington DC 20016
Website: www.afsdc.org
St. David’s Welsh-American Society of Washington DC
Website: http://washingtondcwelsh.org/
Florida

The Gulf Coast St. David’s Welsh Society
Website: www.sarasotawelsh.com
St. David’s Welsh Society of St. Petersburgh & the Suncoast
Website: www.welshsocietyofthesuncoast.org
The Moon Under Water Restaurant
332 Beach Dr NE
St Petersburg, Florida 33701
Phone: 727-896-6160
Cymro
4425 US Highway 1 South,
Ste #603,
St. Augustine, Florida 32086
Phone: 954-495-8224
Website: www.cymro-jewelworks.com
Pembroke Trading International Inc.
Specialized Procurement of Materials
4545 Kincardine Drive
Jacksonville, Florida 32257
Phone: 904-733-8784
Website: www.pembroketrading.com
Wales North America Business Chamber
John L. Thomas, Director
1114 Howell Creek Drive
Winter Springs, Florida
Phone: 407-699-4821
Website: www.wnabc.com
Wales North America Business Chamber
Nicolas J. Watkins, Director
Howe, Robinson & Watkins, LLP
501 Brickell Key Drive, Suite 504
Miami, Florida 33131
Phone: 305-377-1274
Website: www.wnabc.com
Bryn Yemm International
Welsh singers residing in Florida.
PO Box 5476
Titusville, Florida
Phone/Fax: 321-383-0308
Website: www.brynyemm.com / www.dustinyemm.com
Sharon & Lyn Clarke
Welsh authors living in Florida
Phone: 941-779-0500
Website: www.clarkebooks.com
Regal Properties International, Inc.
1938 Auburn Lakes Drive
Rockledge, Florida 32955
Phone: 321-722-2143
Fax: 888-552-5157
Website: www.theregalway.com
Villa Cymru
Welsh owned villa located within the gated Emerald Island Resort, just 3 miles from Disneyworld.
Phone: (from USA/Overseas) +44 1656 773973
Website: www.orlandohomes2rent.com
Allegheny Mountain Dulcimer Players
Welsh-American Musicians based in Florida.
Phone: 716-676-2260
www.alleghenymtndulcimers.com
Georgia

The St. David’s Welsh Society of Georgia
Website: www.stdavidsga-cymru.org
Hawaii

No known Welsh groups.
Idaho

The Malad Valley Welsh Society
Website: www.welshfestival.com
The Idaho Welsh Society
Website: www.idahowelshsociety.org
Illinois

The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society
Website: www.chicagotafia.com
Website: www.youtube.com/chicagotafia
Website: www.facebook.com/chicagotafia
Website: www.twitter.com/chicagotafia
Website: www.myspace.com/chicagotafia
The Cambrian Benevolent Society
Website: www.chicagowelshcambrian.com
The Welsh Women’s Club of Illinois
Website: www.chicagowelshcambrian.com/pages/welshwomensclub.htm
Cornish – Welsh Heritage Society of Eastern Iowa & Western Illinois
c/o Gwen Foulkes
826 30th Street
Rock Island, Illinois 61201
Phone: 563-370-3430
Jon Langford
Welsh musician residing in Chicago.
Website: www.myspace.com/jdfanglord
Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Langford
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
A Chicago band fronted by Welshmun Elia Einhorn.
Website: www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/scotlandyardgospelchoir/316
Website: www.myspace.com/scotlandyardgospelchoir
Pretty Lethal Designs
Welsh graphic design company based in Naperville, Illinois. Web, print, apparel and event design to help develop your brand and promote your business.
Phone: 630-995-5719
Website: www.prettylethaldesigns.com
Brian Geen Photography
Welsh wedding photographer with 20 years experience in 3 countries, mix of candid and traditional photography with emphasis on having a fun day with wedding couples.
Evergreen Park, Illinois
Phone: 773-858-6226
Website: www.studio-one.com/email/staff/brian/brian/index.html
Wales North America Business Chamber
Pat Jones
The Marketing Guy
6N338 Keeney Rd
Roselle Illinois 60172
Phone: 630-894-3299
Website: www.wnabc.com
St. David’s Episcopal Church
701 N. Randall Rd.
Aurora, IL 60506
Phone: 630-896-7229
Website: www.stdavidsofaurora.com
St. David’s Episcopal Church
2410 Glenview Rd
Glenview, IL 60025
Phone: 847-724-1351
Website: www.stdavidsglenview.com
Team Cymru
Specialized Internet security research firm.
16W361 S. Frontage Road
Suite 100
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 312 924 4000
Website: www.team-cymru.org
Pro-Motion Physical Therapy
1010 S. Ridge Road
Minooka, IL 60447
Phone: 815-521-4400
Website: www.pro-motionphysicaltherapy.com
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
931 Chicago Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302
Phone: 708-848-1976
Website: www.gowright.org
Y Ddraig Goch Welsh Dancers
Batavia, Illinois
Website: http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/folkdance/welsh/
Steve Evans
Welsh-American Jazz singer.
2315 N. Kedzie Ave
Chicago IL 60647
Website: www.steve-evans.com
Carl & Mona Johnson
Welsh-American harpist’s located in Evanston.
Phone: (630) 673-3308
Website: www.weddingusa.com/st/il/carljohnson
Marguerite Lynn Williams
Welsh-American harpist based in Chicago.
Phone: 773-791-7520
Website: www.mlwharp.com
Cardiff, Illinois
Cardiff is a ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. Founded as a coal mining town in 1899, it boomed in its first few years. Rapid growth ceased after accidents in the mines in 1903, and the closure of the mines in 1912 soon led to the community’s demise. An official state historical marker has been created on the site of the town, paver bricks that can be engraved with names of the donors are still available for purchase for $75 and are installed pretty quickly into the memorial patio at the marker site.
Website: http://www.herscher.net/historicalSociety/cardiffMarker.asp
Indiana

J. Jay Brook
Welsh musician and entertainer living in Porter, Indiana.
Website: www.myspace.com/jjaybrookentertainer
The Thomas Family Winery (Gales Welsh style cider)
208 East Second Street
Madison, Indiana
Phone: 812-273-3755
Website: www.thomasfamilywinery.us
Rhosyn Gwyllt Farm
620 W. Porter Ridge Rd.
Spencer, Indiana 47460
Phone: 812-876-9193
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Captain Grey Grove’s Company – Indiana
Website: www.rwfia.org/Captain%20Grey%20Groves.htm
Iowa

Iowa Welsh Society/Cymdeithas Gymreig Iowa

Phone: 515-232-0608

Website: www.iowawelshsociety.org

Monarchs Restaurant
The Royal Amsterdam Hotel
705 East 1st Street
Pella, Iowa 50219
Phone: 641-628-1633
Website: www.monarchsofpella.com
Welsh Settlers In Johnson & Iowa Counties, Iowa (Genealogy)
Website: http://wia.leafglow.com
Kansas

St. David’s Society of the state of Kansas
918 Neosho Street
Emporia Kansas 66801
Llywelyns Pub
6995 W 151st
Overland Park, KS 66223
Phone: 913-402-0333
Website: www.llywelynspubkc.com
Kentucky

Evan Williams Distilling Co.
Bardstown, Kentucky
A true Kentucky Bourbon with some roots in Wales.
Website: www.evanwilliams.com/history_article.shtml
Louisiana

No known Welsh groups.
Maine

The Celtic Cottage Maine
A Welsh owned Bed & Breakfast in Portland, Maine.
1433 Westbrook Street
Portland, ME 04102
Phone: (207) 773-6072
Email: www.celticcottagemaine.com
Maryland
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Grenadier Company – Maryland
Website: www.rwfia.org/Grenadier%20Company.htm
Massachusetts

The Boston Cymrodorion
Website: www.freewebs.com/cymrodorion
The Welsh Society of Western New England
Website: www.welshwne.org
Jennifer Evans
Welsh-American Folk Singer & Guitarist
Danvers, Massachusetts
Website: www.jennifer-evans.com
Hiraeth Celtic Goods
77 Cranberry Drive
Duxbury, Massachusetts 02332
Phone: 781-585-6592
Website: www.hiraethcelticgoods.com
First Baptist Church of Swansea
21 Baptist Street
Swansea, Massachusetts
Phone: 508-379-9728
Website: www.firstbaptistinswansea.org
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Website: www.rwfia.org
Michigan

St. David’s Welsh Society of Michigan (Unsure if this group is still active?)
4360, Sunderland Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-9459
Website: http://2wales.tripod.com
The Infamous Welsh Cookie Company
614 1/2 E. Superior St.
Alma, Michigan 48801
Phone: 989-463-4609
Website: http://ukmarket.samsbiz.com
Here Be Dragons Farm
23399 CR 375
Mattawan, Michigan 49071
Phone: 269-668-3588
Website: www.herebeponies.com
North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
Department of History
University of Michigan
Flint, MI 48502
Phone: 810-762-3366
Website: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/naaswch.html
Royal Welch Fusiliers in America
Captain Grey Grove’s Company – Michigan
Website: www.rwfia.org/Captain%20Grey%20Groves.htm
Minnesota

St. David’s Society of Minnesota
Website: www.stdavidsofmn.org
Minnesota Gymanfa Ganu Association
31704 E. State Hwy 112
LeSueur MN 56058
www.stdavidsofmn.org
Merlins Rest Pub
A Welsh owned pub in Minneapolis.
3601 E. Lake Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Phone: 612 216 2419
Website: www.merlinsrest.com
Bill Watkins
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Welsh Author, Storryteller, Poet, Musician, Historian & Folklorist.
Website: www.keltcom.com
Welsh Heritage Farms
A Welsh owned farm & orchard in Minnesota for 3 generations!
20758 528th Avenue
Lake Crystal, Minnesota
Phone: (507) 726-6562
Website: www.welshheritagefarm.com
Traed y Ddraig (The Dragon’s Feet)
Traditional Welsh dance group and lessons. Contact: Laurel Bradshaw
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Phone: 952-466-2284
Cambria USA
Suite 220
11000 West 78th Street
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Phone: 866-226-2742
Website: www.cambriausa.com
Mississippi

No known Welsh groups.
Missouri

Saint David’s Society of Greater St. Louis
Website: www.stdavidssocietyofgreaterstlouis.com
Website: www.MySpace.com/StLouisWelsh
St. David Society of Greater Kansas City
Website: www.welshkc.org
The North American Welsh Choir
P.O. Box 1622
Columbia, Missouri
Website: www.nawr.com/corcymry
Dressel’s Pub
419 N Euclid Ave
St Louis, Missouri
Phone: 314-361-1060
Website: www.dresselspublichouse.com
Llywelyns Pub
4747 McPherson Ave.
St. Louis, Missouri
Phone: 314-361-3003
Website: www.llywelynspub.com
Llywelyns Pub
1732 9th Street,
St. Louis, Missouri
Phone: 314-436-3255
Website: www.llywelynspub.com
Llywelyns Pub
100 North Main,
St. Charles, Missouri
Phone: 636 724 6823
Website: www.llywelynspub.com
Llywelyns Pub
17 Moody
Webster Groves, Missouri
Phone: 314-962-1515
Website: www.llywelynspub.com
Montana

No known Welsh groups.

Linux Users Group: The Linux Command Line For Beginners Part 2 - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:04:12 +0000

Navigation and More

⇦ Part 1 Here

ls, cd, mkdir, touch, cat

gedit

In Part 1 of this series we looked at the wide range of commands available in the Linux Terminal. Now its time to use some of them. Of course we will not be exploring their complete capabilities. For that you will need to consult the relevant 'man' pages but we will be looking at a small subset of commands and exploring basic usage. Let us suppose that we are embarking upon a project that involves the creation of a new sub-directory in the home folder. Let's suppose further that we want to use this folder to store a number of files pertaining to our project that we will need to edit from time to time in a text editor. How would we set this up?
First lets examine the contents of our home directory. To do this simply type 'ls'. The output of the 'ls' command will reveal something like the following on a pristine install of Ubuntu 7.10:-
Desktop Documents Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
Since we are essentially looking for a place to store documents the 'Documents' folder seems like a good place to start. To enter this folder simply type 'cd Documents'. This will take us to the 'Documents' folder where we can once again type 'ls' if we wish to see a list of the contents.
Now we make our sub-directory. We use the 'mkdir' command for this. Simply type 'mkdir project' and a quick 'ls' will reveal that we now have a sub-directory with that name in the 'Documents' folder. Supposing that we need four files to work on, the following commands will create them in the 'project' folder:-
1. cd project
2. touch proj1 proj2 proj3 proj4
If we run the 'ls' command now in the 'project' folder we see that the four files have been created. In order to open 'proj1' for editing, type 'gedit proj1'. The excellent 'gedit' text editor will appear on screen and we can start entering text.
Having entered text we save the file and close 'gedit'. If we wish to read the file in the terminal all we have to do is type 'cat proj1' and the text is displayed.
Of course we have covered a lot of ground in a short time. The above is intended as nothing more than a basic and somewhat superficial introduction to the cd, ls, mkdir, touch and cat commands. A detailed and comprehensive account of their capabilities is to be found in the relevant man pages. It might also be argued that the creation of a sub-directory containing a small number of text files can equally well be accomplished using the graphical file browser. This is true! But some tasks cannot be accomplished so easily, if at all, in the graphical interface and anyone wishing to master the command line should start with the basics.
The 'cd' and 'ls' commands in tandem allow you to explore the full contents of your Linux system. In order to enter the root directory type 'cd /'. Enter 'ls' and you will be presented with a list of all the folders on your drive which will look something like this:-
bin dev initrd lib mnt root sys var
boot etc initrd.img lost+found opt sbin tmp vmlinuz
cdrom home initrd.img.old media proc srv usr vmlinuz.old
From here you can 'cd' into any one of these directories and their sub-directories listing the contents as you go with the 'ls' command. To return to your home folder just typ 'cd ~'. To return to the folder above the one that you are currently in, type 'cd ..'. There are resources in the links section below which will help you understand the Linux Directory Structure. Have fun exploring!
NOTE: In the above example we used a graphical editor - gedit, to create and edit our text files. Some of you may be aware that it is possible to do this in the terminal using the 'vi' editor. Whilst this is perfectly true it is not recommended for beginners. However, for the more adventurous souls amongst you, here is a quick guide to editing with vi:-

1. Open or create a text file - 'vi filename' ( e.g. 'vi proj1' )
2. Vi will open in 'command mode'. All the things you would normally do in a graphical editor by 'pointing and clicking' with a mouse are accomplished in 'command mode' . If you want to enter text or edit the existing contents of a file youmust enter 'insert' mode. To do this simply press the 'i' key on your keyboard.
3. Enter your text.
4. When you have finished editing press the 'Esc' key to re-enter 'command mode'. In order to quit and save, enter the following rather ungainly combination of characters:-
':wq!'
The colon indicates to 'vi' that this is a command. The 'w' and 'q' stand for write and quit. The exclamation mark tells vi to disregard errors.
If all of this appals or unnerves you stick to 'gedit' or 'Leafpad'.

Linux Users Group: The Linux Command Line For Beginners: Part 1 - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 05:48:27 +0000

Opening The Terminal For The First Time

⇦ Part 2 Here

Many people coming to Linux for the first time are wary of the command line. It has a fearsome reputation It is supposed to be difficult and hard to grasp. In fact it is a language which you can learn if you choose to, gradually increasing your vocabulary and mastery of the syntax at whatever pace you find comfortable. Of course you do not need to learn it at all in order to use modern user-friendly Linux distributions like Ubuntu but your experience with Linux will be vastly enriched if you take the time to master the basics.
First things first....lets open the terminal. To do this (on Ubuntu) navigate to Applications--> Accessories--> Terminal. The dreaded black box will open and you will be presented with a prompt. The simplest way to start exploring the massive capabilities of your Linux system is to hit the Tab key twice. You should be presented with something similar to the following:-
Display all 2594 possibilities? (y or n) (see graphic at the top of the page)
Your figure will vary according to the number of installed programs you have on your system but nevertheless if you hit the 'y' key you will be presented with a long list of all the available commands on your machine. Just keep hitting the space bar to scroll through it. When you tire of scrolling through a seemingly endless alphabetic list of meaningless names hit 'Ctrl-C' to return to the prompt.
This is all very well but it would be nice to know what these commands do. This is where the famed 'man' command makes its entrance! Almost all the programs on your system have an accompanying man or manual page. Lets suppose you noticed the 'cd' command in the earlier listing and you wanted to know what it does. You would simply type "man cd" at the prompt. The appropriate manual page will be presented in the terminal. Of course the terminal is not the best place to digest large quantities of text but never fear, almost all the Linux man pages are available online too. Just open your browser and, in this case, search for 'man cd'. Much easier to read! In order to close manual pages in the terminal hit the 'q' key.
Some of the programs on your system will open in the graphical interface and others will run in the terminal. In order to see the difference try typing 'firefox' which will open the Firefox browser and 'ls' which will list files and folders in the current directory in your terminal. Of course you can always open programs in the graphical interface by clicking on the appropriate icon in the Applications menu but command line programs will only run after being invoked in the terminal.
As a rule it is not a good idea to run commands in the terminal unless you have researched them and know exactly what they are going to do. Many commands can only be run as the root or administrative user. We will return to this subject later. (see note below)
So...what practical purpose might what we have learned so far possibly serve? Well let us suppose that you have installed a new program with Add/Remove Programs ( or Synaptic or Apt-get ) and no icon was added to the Applications menu ( this happens frequently ). Let us further suppose that you dont remember the full name of the package but do recall that it started with a 'v'. All you need do is open a terminal , type 'v' and press tab twice to be presented with a list of all the packages on your system whose names begin with 'v'. Having spotted a likely candidate in the list press 'Ctrl-C' to escape and then type the appropriate command. Always assuming you've got the right command your program should appear on the screen ( or in the terminal of course ).

NOTE: The superuser or root account on traditional unix/linux systems is god. It alone has the right to administer all particulars of a given system. Ubuntu is not traditional in this respect, allowing regular users to perform administrative tasks if they preface the commands with the sudo command. If you wish to revert to the traditional arrangement you could do worse than consult this article Rootin' For Root.

Linux Users Group: Quark, Strangeness & Welsh Charm - @ceri-shaw

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 05:43:15 +0000

Anyone who has attempted to make a linked Table of Contents in Scribus will know that the process is about as intuitive as quantum mechanics. Enter Dai!!!!! Not only is the following video 100% accurate in every detail but it is also entirely intelligible??? Looking forward to perusing some more of Dai's 131 videos on 'Show Me Do'

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting for Buffoons - Eggtimer Script - @ceri-shaw

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:02:45 +0000

Eggtimer Script

⇦ Back to 'Bash Scripting For Buffoons'
Yes folks it's an eggtimer, or perhaps more accurately an interval timer. You can tweak it to measure any interval you like but as it stands, it does hard and soft-boiled eggs. It uses the 'case' menu format and a nested 'for' loop to achieve the desired effect. For some reason I decided to call 'menu' as a function. If you want it to beep at the end of the interval you need to have the system 'beep' program installed. For those of you running Ubuntu, it's in the repositories.
#!/bin/bash
# nested for loop
menu () {
echo "======================================="
echo "Please select from the following menu:-"
echo " "
echo "1 Soft boiled."
echo "2 Hard boiled."
echo " "
read NAME
case "$NAME" in
1)
for i in 1 2 3 4
do
echo -n "Min $i: "
for j in 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
do
sleep 5
echo -n "$j "
done
echo #output newline
done ;;
2)
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
echo -n "Min $i: "
for j in 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
do
sleep 5
echo -n "$j "
done
echo #output newline
done ;;
*) echo "Not a valid option!" ;;
esac
}
menu
beep
exit 0

An exhilarating screen shot of the Bash Eggtimer in action! Download the script here (.txt) Bash Eggtimer Script

Linux Users Group: Bash Scripting for Buffoons - @ceri-shaw

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 04:11:49 +0000

or How I Learned to Love The Command Line

Firstly let me say that I am a keen supporter of the 'Ubuntification' ( see footnote ) of Linux. I use Ubuntu both on the desktop and on the server and if Linux is ever to conquer the desktop a user-friendly GUI is an essential prerequisite. But recently I have become more irritated by proponents of the GUI versus the command line in computing. The GUI is a place of drudgery, where you go to perform routine tasks with the minimum of thought and concentration. The command line on the other hand is a place of enchantment where you go in order to master a new and powerful tongue which will ultimately allow you to accomplish much, much more . Anyone who dismisses it as an anachronism is either a fool or just plain computer illiterate.
The GUI inhibits creativity by encouraging over-reliance on software ( often proprietary ) which offers only a limited subset of the capabilities of the underlying markup or scripting languages. How often have you heard someone say "Oh I can only do that in Dreamweaver." But, of course, Dreamweaver is nothing more than a brightly colored box with gaudy labels all over it. Webpages are made out of html, css, javascript, flash etc. not GUI buttons. People talk about the irreplacability of productivity software like 'Excel' in which case they might be interested in the following comment from a recent article ( which can be found here )
“you probably don’t see a business user crunching their data in the terminal, do you?”
YES. Our organization use to do all of our monthly reports in Excel. It took nearly two weeks to compile, aggregate, format and print all of them. We now do everything from a BASH script. It’s scheduled as a Cron job that executes during the night when our offices are closed, takes about 15min. to run, and all of the reports are sitting on the printer when we open.

My point is that no matter how creative or productive you are or wish to be you cannot afford to ignore the Bash shell. Once mastered it vastly increases productivity and encourages a whole new way of thinking and self-expression.
Personally, I refuse to learn anything other than by example. My thought processes are far too erratic for logical exposition. But if Bash is a language then it is possible to look upon scripting as an art form. I havent composed any sonnets yet ( mostly limericks so far ) but I live in hope. Ultimately it doesn't matter how much of a disorganised shambles you are, you can still express yourself in Bash.
In conclusion, for the esoteric ones, I have included a link to some scripts of my own below. These scripts are provided for purposes of entertainment and perhaps edification. Beware...this way madness lies!
Footnote :- It seems that my employment of the term 'Ubuntification' occasioned some confusion. However, a public spirited contributor to the Dunedin Linux Users Group in new Zealand offers an interesting definition of the term in this post .

The scripts below are organised into three sub-categories:-
Marginally Useful
Eggtimer Script
Snapshot Script
Of Dubious Usefulness
Bills Script
Quick Hide
Completely Bloody Useless
Finder Script
NoName Script
My purpose in presenting them is twofold. Firstly it is hoped that they will amuse persons who have adequately mastered the art of shell-scripting. The sheer fumbling inelegance of some of the 'solutions' on offer is vaguely reminiscent of Rube Goldberg ( or Heath Robinson ). They are also offered as a resource for the novice shell scripter who may be able to cannibalise pieces of the code and put them to a truly useful purpose. There is a brief guide to making scripts executable on this page and a list of bash scripting resources here .

Welsh Music: Ning Music Group Comment Wall (Arcive) - @americymru

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 03:45:06 +0000

Comments

Wendy Jones November 4, 2015 at 5:20pm

I do like listening to Elin Fflur very much, there's also Gwyneth Glyn who is also lovely to listen to, a group called Gildas has a beautiful lyrical quality and Gwibdaith Hen Fran are great fun!
Jason Medcraft September 15, 2015 at 8:25am

Does anyone else have any suggestions for Welsh pop music to listen to besides Elin Fflur? I heard one of her songs by fluke and ended up downloading her latest CD. I'm looking for artists that have a similar feel to the CD Lleuad Llawn.... If anyone has heard of it that is..... if not.... it's now one of my most listened to CD's of this year.

Ken Thomas August 13, 2015 at 3:44pm

Bronwen Lewis - Gwlad y Gan

Lovely song by a fantastic young talent at 4.20 mins into this video

Ken Thomas August 13, 2015 at 3:34pm

Gwahoddiad -Ospreys Rugby Supporters Choir - Cor Cefnogwyr Rygbi y Gweilch
Ken Thomas August 13, 2015 at 3:31pm

Ar Lan y Mor (Arr. Aled Hopton) Ospreys Rugby Supporters Choir/ Cor Cefnogwyr Rygbi y Gweilch
Ceri Shaw November 6, 2014 at 9:30pm

Do comments in groups show up on the front page???
Brett Hull May 23, 2014 at 8:35pm

Ceri Shaw May 11, 2014 at 12:25pm

Latest from the Beef Seeds ( south Wales bluegrass sensation ) 'Frozen'
htp://americymru.net/beef-seeds
Ceri Shaw May 11, 2014 at 12:12pm

Todays featured video in the AmeriCymru Welsh Music
Group BOB DELYN A'R EBILLION - Y SWN filmed at Portmeirion, north Wales.
http://americymru.net/group/welshmusic/contemporary/bob-delyn-a-r-e...
Carreg Lafar May 8, 2014 at 10:16am

We've just launched a Kickstarter project to help us raise funds for recording a new album, any contribution will be a huge help. Diolch o galon o flaen llaw am unrhyw cyfraniad.
htps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1701939068/carreg-lafars-new-a...
HAN May 5, 2014 at 3:10pm

Fi ydy'r boi tew ar y Bas

Ceri Shaw May 5, 2014 at 9:19pm

Gwych...great video....diolch for posting. I took the liberty of embedding it below. Hope that was ok

Gerard KilBride May 5, 2014 at 3:51am

have uploaded the links to all the web content for ffwrnes Gerdd to www.pibgyrn.com

both programmes here

htp://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=516377612

htp://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?series_id=516377605
Ceri Shaw May 5, 2014 at 3:40pm

Diolch for posting Gerard.....going to look now
Ceri Shaw May 4, 2014 at 9:29pm

Nominate your favorite Welsh Music Video for our Welsh Music Video Of The Day feature here!!!
Ceri Shaw May 4, 2014 at 12:11pm

Y Tebot Piws added to the Welsh Music Group. Don't know them? Check them out here - htp://americymru.net/group/welshmusic/contemporary/Tebot+Piws
Ceri Shaw May 2, 2014 at 9:23pm

A great suggestion. Diolch Brett Added it here:- htp://americymru.net/group/welshmusic/vocal/elin-fflur-harbwr-diog...
Brett Hull May 1, 2014 at 8:54pm

Elin Fflur
Ceri Shaw May 1, 2014 at 5:19pm

Interview with Max Boyce on the AmeriCymru Bookstore:- http://www.welsh-american-bookstore.com/Interviews/hymns-arias-inte...
Ceri Shaw April 30, 2014 at 10:16am

Diolch to John Griffiths Llwybr Llaethog now have their own blog category in Contemporary
Ceri Shaw April 29, 2014 at 1:33pm

I hate the cover photo in this group!!!! Can any kind person suggest or donate a better image that we might use or adapt for this purpose. ( cover photos are 1120x201px or thereabouts )
Ceri Shaw April 20, 2014 at 11:57pm

Welsh Bagpipes - Carn Menyn

Ceri Shaw April 20, 2014 at 11:49pm

Recently came across this. Had to share

Welsh Music: Wales International Harp Competition - @laura-stokes

Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:43:27 +0000

Hello there fellow Wales lovers! I am new to this site but very excited to find other Welsh-Americans!

I am going to Wales in April to compete in the Wales International Harp Competition in Caernarfon.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of people or places who may have interest in helping sponsor my travels to Wales.

I am currently studying harp at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, I have applied to my school for grant money but it doesn't look as if I am going to get any.

I would love any ideas that you have!

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

Comments
Page 1

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 6:53pm
ok got the stuff on defnydd@gmail.com no need to resend:)

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 6:31pm
Hi Laura...if you sent pics you may need to resend to my americymru@gmail.com address as the ning email doesnt allow attachments. Once we have everything we'll put it all together and get to work with it. It's a short time and quite a bit of money so it'll be a challenge:)

Ceri Shaw February 18, 2010 at 9:43pm
Hi Laura....do you give public performances? Is there anywhere online we can hear your work?

Laura Stokes February 18, 2010 at 9:45pm
Right now most I am only really performing at Peabody but I have played mainly in VA. I will try to get some videos up on youtube soon.

Ceri Shaw February 18, 2010 at 9:52pm
Just found your Facebook Fan page Laura's Harp- Erica Joined We'll feature this discussion in our weekly broadcast email on Tuesday which goes out to about 5,000 people and see what reaction we get. I'll tell people thay can message you through your page on here.

Ceri Shaw February 18, 2010 at 9:52pm
Any other members have any ideas?

Ceri Shaw February 18, 2010 at 9:48pm
Great...when you do we'll put up an appeal blog on here if you like. How much do you need? Do you have a paypal account?

Laura Stokes February 19, 2010 at 1:49pm
I do have a paypal account. I am still working out the budget. The plane ticket will be around $1,000 so as of right now think the total will be about $3,000.00.

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Laura Stokes March 5, 2010 at 1:32pm
Hi there!

I wanted to let you know that I will be playing a solo concert at the Baltimore Basillica on Wednesday March 17th at 12:45pm. This 30 minute lunchtime concert is free and open to all. I will be playing the program I am preparing for the Wales International Harp competition. I would love for you to come!

Sincerely,
Laura Stokes
laurastokesharp@hotmail.com

http://www.baltimorebasilica.org/

The Baltimore Basilica
409 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone: 410-727-3565 | Fax: 410-539-0407

Ceri Shaw February 20, 2010 at 10:45am
Read the blogpost and appeal here:- http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/ceri-shaw/blog/979/lets-send-laura-to-wales-calling-the-american-welsh-community

Emyr February 19, 2010 at 3:49am
Have you tried the Maryland - Saint David's Welsh - American Society of Baltimore Emyr

Laura Stokes February 19, 2010 at 1:53pm
Great Idea! I just tried to find them online but their website seems to be down, do you happen to have any contact information for them? thanks!

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 2:07pm
looking now

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 2:26pm
You might try Kelvin Williams Message him from his page on here and ask him if hes got any ideas? I will email him to tell him that you will be contacting him.

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 2:33pm
Not sure whats happened to the website. I will see if I can dig up spome more contacts. Any progress on the youtube vids? Should be easy to put up an appeal blog with a link to your paypal account. Stronger with the vids though. Let us know when you have them in place:)

Laura Stokes February 19, 2010 at 2:36pm
How would I start an appeal blog? Do you mean through this website or separately? I am trying to find my videos I will definitely let you know when they are up!

Ceri Shaw February 19, 2010 at 2:44pm
Send us the text you want plus graphics plus youtube vid urls ( which we will embed, we can do it without the vids but they add a lot of extra impact ) and a paypal button linked to your appeal account. We will then format it and push it all over the web. I suggest we do that this weekend 'coz theres not much time ( its this April right? ). We will launch the post and send it out on Tuesday in our weekly broadcast. Actually if you write the text and send us some graphics we can start working on it straight away, Then we can add the vids later when theyre ready i guess. You can then link to the post from FB etc. You will need a paypal button so that we can incorporate that. They can be get from the Paypal site and will allow people to donate directly. Hope that helps:)

Laura Stokes February 19, 2010 at 6:27pm
I have emailed you the info, paypal button and pics. I am trying to find some videos. Thank you SOOO much for all your help and interest. I can't really thank you enough. I hope that what i wrote is appropriate please let me know if you think I should add anything.

Welsh Music: Best and Worst of the Welsh National Anthem ? - @lawrence-davies2

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:38:19 +0000

The Welsh National Anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, "Land of My Fathers" was written by Evan James and his son, James James, who came from the town of Pontypridd, and was written at the start of 1856. So, in the last century and a half, plenty of people have sung it, played it, and even murdered it. Thinking about the best and worst versions I have ever heard, I can come up with a few renditions at either end of the spectrum.
One of the best version would be Titch Gwilym, whose cover on electric guitar was so well done that many believed the rumour that Jimi Hendrix had actually been the one to play it. I'm still waiting on a version from guitar maestro Phil Campbell, Motorhead's legendary guitarist to give us a version, (Campbell also hails from Pontypridd where the anthem was written) :

Phil Campbell, legendary Motorhead guitarist from Pontypridd
Only he knows what he could do with the Welsh national anthem

Phi Campbell plays Pink Floyd

Still, in the meantime there are plenty of guitarists demonstrating their skills and showcasing their versions on youtube. This is one of the most beautifully arranged acoustic ones that I have heard :

A Youtube beauty on acoustic guitar

And now to the vault of shame. The all-time worst effort that has ever been seen. It has to go to John Redwood. If you saw it you can't forget. Redwood ended up as Welsh Secretary in '93. It was a weird choice, but then Welsh Conservative MPs were thin on the ground. I would love to know the back story on his ill-fated attempt to sing the anthem, was there a memo that went missing ?, did he have any coaching prior to the event, or just decide to 'give it a go'.
It seems odd, given that if you don't know a anthem in a foreign language, you can always respectfully listen, maybe even nod your head at particularly stirring moments, what nobody was expecting, least of all Redwood himself, judging by the confused look on his face at the end, is the weird birdlike twitching that accompanies his efforts.

Since then the 'Vulcan' as he was known, has been unable to completely escape this magical moment, and even the BBC was pulled up and had its knuckles slapped for remembering this classic slice of comedy a number of years later :

BBC remember Redwood's Welsh Anthem

I issue a challenge, can anyone top my best and worst ?
BRING IT ON !

Replies so far
Ceri Shaw July 7, 2013 at 7:20pm
This one is a bit rough though. Sir Tom must have been having a bad day. Not up to his usual standards.

Lawrence Davies July 7, 2013 at 7:26pm
Yep, agreed, bad day at the office for Tom, but far beneath the bar set by Redwood.
Ceri Shaw July 7, 2013 at 6:47pm
Nobody's gonna beat John Redwood in the worst category methinks
Lawrence Davies July 7, 2013 at 7:09pm
The Vulcan does bring an otherworldly quality to the tune it must be said

Welsh Music: Archived Material - @americymru

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:24:22 +0000

Comment by Ceri Shaw on November 29, 2010 at 11:50am
Welsh Descendants from the Arts: the hauntingly beautiful Nia Morgan

welsh-descendants-from-the-2
Comment by Duane Owen Brayboy-Williams on June 1, 2010 at 2:13pm
What a beautiful sound! Thank you for sharing this, Mr. Evans.
Comment by Howard Evans on April 16, 2010 at 3:05pm
If anyone is interested, here's the URL where the CD can be ordered:

http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/glerorfathe-folk-orchestra-live-p-10..
Comment by Howard Evans on April 16, 2010 at 1:26pm
I know this isn't the album you were directing us to, but it is a great example of this group. Do you know where the album can be purchased?
Comment by Keith Lewis on April 16, 2010 at 12:59pm
if you get a chance to get hold of "Yn Few" by Y glerorfa (the National Welsh Folk orchestra) it's brill, (that's not because my two youngest daughters play harp and triple harp in it .. honest) the arrangements are very very good.
K
Comment by Gareth Williams on December 14, 2009 at 12:35am
Mike Brooks of Here Be Dragons - There is also the other side of the coin like *** Mc Mabon - Myddyffycys yn Bob Man *** not for the easily offended.

For the easily offended Diffiniad - Calon
Comment by Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise on September 23, 2009 at 5:20am
BBC Wales - Music - Meic Stevens
Source: bbc.co.uk Byn Walters sent this using ShareThis .
Comment by Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise on September 16, 2009 at 6:31am
At the moment all songs that are on 'Byn (Bynbrynman) Tavarn Ty Elise' can also be found on : htp://bynbrynman.ning.com
Comment by Byn (Bynbrynman)Tavarn Ty Elise on August 29, 2009 at 5:11am
I'm in the act of putting an eclectic choice on 'my page' including Bryn Terfel - We'll keep a welcome, I'm also trying to open access to my i-Tunes collection on http://crwtynrhifnaw.blogspot.com, but as I can only see it from my side I don't know yet how it's working out.
Comment by Tom Williams on January 24, 2009 at 9:14am
Check out www.myspace.com/toyhorses

Welsh and playing sxsw in March :o)

Welsh Music: St. David’s Day Radio Specials around the USA - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:17:36 +0000

10 radio stations around the US are doing St. David's day radio specials on and around March 1st.The shows will feature music by Welsh artists such as - Fflur Dafydd, Gwyndaf Jones, David Llewellyn, Here Be Dragons, Trelew, Oceans Apart, Hwyl, Carreg Lafar, Celtish, Triban, Lowri Evans, Ceri Rhys Mathews, Geraint Roberts, Ar Ôl Tri, Cass Meurig, Gwyneth Glyn, Calan, Dafydd Iwan, Catrin Finch, Steve Eaves, Caryl Parry Jones, Meic Stevens, The Pendyrus Male Voice Choir, The Burlington Welsh Male Chorus and many more...If you live in any of these areas or fancy tuning in online the showtimes are listed below:
February 26th to March 5th Thistle & ShamrockSyndicated Nationwide - check website for local showtimes http://thistleradio.com
Thursday February 26, 5:00pm to 5:30pm (EST) Global Village - WCNI 90.9 FMNew London, Connecticut www.wcniradio.org
Thursday February 26th, 7:00pm to 9:00pm (EST) Music of the Isles - WMNF 88.5 FMTampa, Florida www.wmnf.org/programs/music-of-the-isles
Friday February 27th – 5:00pm to 8:00pm (EST) WWPV 88.7 FMColchester, Vermont http://wwpv.smcvt.edu/
Saturday February 28th – 9am to 12pm (EST) Celtic Crush - The Spectrum Channel 18SIRIUS Satellite Radio www.sirius.com
Saturday February 28th – 12:00pm to 3:00pm (EST) A Celtic Sojourn – WGBH 89.7 FMBoston, Massachusetts http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?program_id=29996
Sunday March 1st – 12:00pm to 2:00pm (EST) Ceili - WUNH 91.3 FMDurham, New Hampshire www.wunh.org
Sunday March 1st – 2:30pm to 5:30pm (EST) A Celtic Afternoon - WNKU 89.7 FMHighland Heights, Kentucky (it serves the Greater Cincinnati area). www.wnku.org
Sunday March 1st – 4:30pm to 5:30pm (EST) Celtic Crossings - WMUA 91.1 FMAmherst, Massachusetts www.wmua.org
Sunday March 1st – 5:00pm to 7:00pm (EST) Celtic Show - WRFG 89.3 FMAtlanta, Georgia http://www.wrfg.org/features/shows/shows-desc.asp?showid=77 Please contact the shows to tell them you appreciate what they are doing!
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The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society February 26, 2009 at 1:03pm

Hi,

It's only 3 days until St. David's day, now is a good a time as any to contact the hosts of your local radio stations to see they will play music by Welsh musicians on or in the run up too St. David's day.

Most rock/pop stations will have Duffy, Jem, Stereophonics or Tom Jones somwhere on their playlists, if your contacting a classical station most will have Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins or something by one of the many Welsh male voice choirs.

So far this year we have had confirmation from around 12 Chicago area radio stations and 19 different shows saying that they will dedicate songs to the Welsh in Chicago and mention St. David's day between Friday and Sunday.

Cheers

Dave

The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society February 21, 2009 at 11:00pm

If you have a chance this week, contact your local radio stations and ask them to play Welsh music and relay "Happy St. David's Day" messages to the Welsh in your area on March 1st.

There is plenty of music by Welsh artists that are readily available on most radio stations play lists. If it is a rock/pop station ask for Duffy, The Stereophonics, Jem or Tom Jones, if it is a classical station, you might try asking for Bryn Terfel, Charlotte Church, Paul Potts or Katherine Jenkins.

Cheers

Dave

Welsh Music: Welsh Bands at South by Southwest – 2009 - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:09:02 +0000

Welsh Bands at South by Southwest – 2009 South by Southwest ( SXSW ) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring in Austin, Texas. Originating as the Austin Battle of the Bands, SXSW officially began in 1987 and is centered on the downtown Austin Convention Center. Each of the three parts run relatively independently, with different start and end dates.SXSW is one of the largest music festivals in the United States, with more than 1,400 performers playing dozens of venues around Austin over four days, in March.The 2009 festival will be held March 13-22. The full band and event line-up is yet to be announced, but confirmed as of last week 7 Welsh bands and one Chicago based sort of Welsh band will be performing at the fest.
Radio Luxembourg From Wild West Wales's seaside town of Aberystwyth come the psychedelic pop outfit Radio Luxembourg — a five-piece band of oddballs steeped in the tradition of 90s Welsh bands, following in the footsteps of Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, SFA and Murry The Hump.Their reputation for being an exciting live band along with their catchy tunes are generating a lot of buzz throughout Wales, winning them much media acclaim.For more info, visit their website at: www.myspace.com/radiolux
Future of the Left Future of the Left is an alternative rock supergroup based in Cardiff, Wales. It consists of singer/guitarist Andy "Falco" Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone, both previously of Cardiff band Mclusky, alongside singer/bassist Kelson Mathias, formerly of the Ammanford-based group Jarcrew.For more info, visit their website at: www.futureoftheleft.com
Amy Wadge Although born in the village of Backwell near Bristol, Amy Wadge has been a resident of Wales since she began studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.Her recording career goes back further, though. Aged just 14, she was half of the girl group Two Of A Mind, whose cover of The Great Pretender reached the heady heights of number 75.True success began to come from January 2001, following the release of her debut single Saddest Eyes on the FF Vinyl label. She'd spent most of the previous year on the road, and was by this time making regular TV and radio appearances.Amy has toured the length and breadth of the UK and playing at many of the UK's prestigeous festivals including Cropredy, Hay on Wye Literary Festival, Larmer Tree Festival and Glastonbury. She has also toured in Asia, Russia, Europe and the States.For more info, visit their website at: www.amywadge.com
Polly Mackey & The Pleasure Principle This Wrexham native is just 17 but has already been tipped to make it big in 2009... This showcase gig at SXSW in Texas in March should be all it takes to get some serious label interest. Hopefully we should be hearing a lot more from her in the future.For more info, visit their website at: www.myspace.com/pollymackey
The Toy Horses Formed in Wales in late 2007, this Indie/pop/rock band is one to look out for at the fest.For more info, visit their website at: www.toyhorsesmusic.com
Inner City Pirates Hailing from Barry in South Wales, Innercity Pirates were formely known as My Red Cell and signed to V2 Records. After subsequently reaching the end of their contract agreement with V2, My Red Cell renamed and re-branded to form Innercity Pirates.Writing new material and performing live on a regular basis, they are slowly (but surely) persuing their way up the proverbial ladder that is the ‘scale of recognition’ with the release of three EPs and their own ‘Pirates Night’ at Clwb ifor Bach in Cardiff.For more info, visit their website at: www.myspace.com/innercitypirates
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Neither Scottish nor a Gospel Choir. With Welsh-born Elia as the ringleader, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir is a free-spirited collective of musical visionaries who turn out exuberant and rough-hewn chamber pop. Among the talent that performs and/or records with the Choir includes core players like Ellen O’Hayer (the band’s cellist and vocalist who moonlights in Bright Eyes’ touring band,) bassist and recording engineer Mark Yoshizumi, drummer Jay Santana, violin player Ethan Adelsman and Sam Johnson of Mucca Pazza and Head of Femur on trumpet. The extended Scotland Yard family is comprised of a who’s-who of the Chicago underground music community, boasting the likes of Sally Timms, Nora O’Connor and Kelly Hogan, who sing backup on the album, and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley), Matt Priest and Megan O’Conner (Canasta), and Brett Whitacre (Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers).For more info, visit their website at: www.myspace.com/scotlandyardgospelchoir

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The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society March 6, 2009 at 8:02pm

Welsh Bands @ SXSW 2009 – Austin, Texas

South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the largest music festivals in the United States, with more than 1,400 performers (including a fair few Welsh bands) playing dozens of venues around Austin over four days, in March.

The following musicians & dates have been confirmed, though you might want to double check last minute changes at: http://sxsw.com

Toy Horses
Wednesday, March 18 8:00 pm
Latitude 30
512 San Jacinto Street
Austin, Texas
www.toyhorsesmusic.com

Rod Thomas
Wednesday, March 18 - 11:00 pm
18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn
500 N IH 35
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic

Eugene Francis Jnr & The Juniors
Thursday, March 19 - 9:00 pm
The Parish Downstairs
214 E 6th Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/eugenefrancisjnr

Polly Mackey & the Pleasure Principle
Thursday, March 19 - 12:00 am
Esther's Follies
525 E 6th Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/pollymackey

Amy Wadge
Friday, March 20 - 12:00 am
Stephen F's Bar
701 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas
www.amywadge.com

Polly Mackey & the Pleasure Principle
Friday, March 20 - 12:30 pm
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center
500 E Cesar Chavez Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/pollymackey

Future Of The Left
Friday, March 20 - 9:00 pm
Aces Lounge
222 E 6th Street
Austin, Texas
www.futureoftheleft.com

Jon Langford And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Friday, March 20 - 11:00 pm
Momo's
618 W 6th Street
Austin, Texas
www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/jon-langford

Friends Electric
Saturday, March 21 - 12:00 am
Latitude 30
512 San Jacinto Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/friendselectricmusic

Waco Brothers
Saturday, March 21 - 1:00 am
Red Eyed Fly
715 Red River Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/wacobrothers

Innercity Pirates
Saturday, March 21 8:00 pm
Volume
614 E 6th Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/innercitypirates

Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Saturday, March 21 - 8:30 pm
Smokin' Music
504 Trinity Street
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/scotlandyardgospelchoir

Christopher Rees
Saturday, March 21 - 10:00 pm
Stephen F's Bar
701 Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas
www.myspace.com/christopherrees

The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society February 9, 2009 at 6:11pm

More Welsh bands have been invited to play SXSW!!

I'm uncertain at the moment as to which have confirmed, but keep an eye out for the following upcoming Welsh musicians:

Christopher Rees - www.myspace.com/christopherrees
People In Planes - www.myspace.com/peopleinplanes
Friends Electric - www.myspace.com/friendselectricmusic
Rod Thomas - www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic
Eugene Francis Junior - www.myspace.com/eugenefrancisjnr

More details to follow soon.......

Welsh Music: Found A Great Link - @neil

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:53:05 +0000

Sorry if it's been posted before.NEIL http://indiestore.7digital.com/welshmusic/

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Gareth Williams September 30, 2009 at 11:13pm
Hergest
With extra songs I couldn't link to the music player on my page
Hergest Posters/Memorabilia
Hergest Photos

Gareth Williams September 2, 2009 at 1:23pm
Collection of welsh songs sung on video collected from youtube Sing4Wales

Welsh Music: St. David’s Day Radio Specials - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:45:52 +0000

St. David’s Day Radio Specials The following stations around the USA are doing St. David's day on and around March 1st. If you know of any more stations around the globe that are doing St. David’s day specials please let us know.HwylDaveShow times: February 26th to March 5thThistle & Shamrock – syndicated nationwideWelsh Momentum Emerging Welsh roots recordings vary from traditional harp music to genre-bending blends of Latin, funk, and Afrobeat. Hear established and emerging artists including Drymbago, Mim Twm Llai, Gwenan Gibbard, and Crasdant. http://thistleradio.com/ Thursday February 26th, 7:00 to 9:00pmMusic of the Isles - WMNF 88.5fmTampa, Florida http://shows.wmnf.org/ Friday February 27th – 5:00pm to 8:00pmWWPV 88.7fmColchester, Vermont http://wwpv.smcvt.edu/ Saturday February 28th – 12:00pm to 3:00pmA Celtic Sojourn – WGBH 89.7fmBoston, Massachusetts http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/radio Sunday March 1st – 12:00pm to 2:00pmCeili - WUNH 91.3fmDurham, New Hampshire www.wunh.org Sunday March 1st – 2:30pm to 5:30pmA Celtic Afternoon - WNKU 89.7fmHighland Heights, Kentucky (it serves the Greater Cincinnati area). www.wnku.org Sunday March 1st – 3:30pm to 5:30pmCeltic Crossings - WMUA 91.1fmAmherst, Massachusetts http://www.wmua.org/ Sunday March 1st – 5:00pm to 7:00pmCeltic Show - WRFG 89.3fmAtlanta, Georgia www.wrfg.org

Welsh Music: Blatant advert for our new cd Catraeth "wonderful, inspirational" Frank Hennesy - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:43:04 +0000

Taran New Cd Catraeth Out NowFor St Davids Day we are pleased to announce that the new cd is out on general release, it will appear on itunes and amazon in the next few weeks, but if you can't wait you can buy it now on ebay from this link.. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170307800623 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250382180130 Featured on Saturday Night on Radio Cymrus Celtic heartbeat, "taran..Wonderful, inspitrational, bright and crazy stuff" Frank Hennesy .You can get tasters at http://www.myspace.com/ourspacetaran Gerard

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Howard Evans May 3, 2009 at 11:09am

I enjoyed this album, even though this genre is normally outside my scope. I guess I can learn too.

Emyr March 25, 2009 at 2:15am
Recently bought a copy, brilliant CD by a group of talented musicians.Thorough recommended.Emyr

Gerard KilBride March 4, 2009 at 10:28am
Quiet soon I hope, should be up on itunes aswell, their turnaround times are not static. But its worth getting an actual copy as the cover is gorgeous aswell.     Gerard

Ceri Shaw March 4, 2009 at 8:15am
When will it be on Amazon Gerard?

Welsh Music: The Happy Washerwoman - @mike-jarman

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:36:39 +0000

Has anyone heard of a humorous old welsh song called 'A Happy Washerwoman am I' or 'Golchi Gwragedd Hapus yr ydym ni'.

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Mick Tems October 21, 2009 at 3:00am

Hi Mike,
I'm a researcher in South Wales folklore. I came across your request today, and I have contacts in welsh music. Do you know Sian Thomas, director of trac, the all-Wales folk development organisation? If it still exists, Sian's bound to have it! I'll email her.

Mick Tems

Mike jarman October 21, 2009 at 3:03am

Nick
That is great I had given up all hope. We would like to do it in our Noson Lawen in Wallingford Oxfordshire next march 1st
Mike

Welsh Music: Selling J shorland, pipes made in cardiff 1990ish - @gerard-kilbride

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:32:05 +0000

Hey AllI am selling a set of J Shorland (Fernhill, Primeaval, Taran ) fruitwood pipes in D, made in Cardiff at the Llandaff steam laundry workshops, made 1990 ish.. Have been re bagged with a seivanne gortex bag and blowpipe but can provide the original if requested, must be one of his last sets before retiring..£380 onoAdmin, If this should be somewhere elase please move it

Welsh Music: Top 50 Welsh Songs Ever? - @gaynor-madoc-leonard

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:30:32 +0000

The Western Mail has published a list of top Welsh songs on www.walesonline.co.uk/topsong .
The list includes Mae Rhywyn Wedi Dwyn Fy Nhrwyn by Y Tebot Piws (on everyone's list I think) and, of course, the great Hymns & Arias. I quote: "You couldn't get more Welsh than Max Boyce if you carpeted your house with turf from Stradey Park while watching endless looped screenings of Grand Slam, eating cawl and shouting 'Over by there, mun'. And you can't say fairer than that.

Welsh Music: Wales at the Lorient Interceltic Festival 2011 - @carreg-lafar

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:28:54 +0000

The Festival Interceltique de Lorient, the world’s leading festival of Celtic music and dance, attracted around 650,000 visitors over ten days and sold 111,000 tickets. The theme for 2011 was Year of the Celtic Diaspora, with a spotlight on the Celtic peoples who’ve made their homes in other parts of the world but still hold fast to their traditions and languages.
With financial support from the Wales Millennium Centre, Arts Council of Wales, Wales Arts International and Cerdd Cymru Music Wales, we were able to present an enhanced and exciting line-up of performers interpreting our rich traditions in a wide variety of styles.
The Welsh music programme included well established performers Fernhill, Yr Hwntws and Robin Huw Bowen, as part of the main festival programme, performing at a variety of venues to large and very appreciative audiences. Fernhill’s concert in the Palais de Congrès was sensitive and beautiful and Yr Hwntws gave a storming, energetic performance at the Espace Bretagne. Robin Huw Bowen, ambassador for the Welsh triple harp, charmed and wowed audiences throughout the week, culminating in the Soirée de la Harpe, attended for the first time by the French Culture Minister.
The enhanced Welsh programme included the stunning vocals of singer songwriter Lleuwen, performing in Welsh and Breton, and the sublime new harp and fiddle duo DnA (Delyth and Angharad Jenkins) both performing in the new Dôme des Diasporas. To tie in with the Year of the Diaspora we showed three films from Wales, ‘Patagonia’, ‘Hollywood Gaucho’ and ‘Separado!’ followed by an amazing solo performance of Welsh Patagonian music by singer songwriter René Griffiths.
The 80-strong Pendyrus Male Choir from the Rhondda also performed throughout the week, in the Nuits Interceltique as well as a stunning concert of sacred music in Eglise Saint Louis to the largest ever audience at the venue.
The Festival Interceltique de Lorient continues to be a unique opportunity to showcase Wales’s rich cultural traditions and offers a great opportunity for Welsh artists to perform on a significant international stage alongside our Celtic cousins.

Welsh Music: Wales at Lorient Interceltic Festival 2010 - @carreg-lafar

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:27:15 +0000

Young Welsh folk band Calan won first prize in the folk group competition at this year's Interceltic Festival in Lorient on its 40th anniversary. Fifteen groups from the other Celtic regions took part and Calan won the unanimous decision of the judges to take first prize.

Calan were also performing as part of the Wales delegation, supported by the Welsh Assembly Government, for this celebratory year, along with contemporary Celtic folk band Mabon; also performing were Parti Cut Lloi, a male voice folk choir from Montgomeryshire led by singer and harpist Siân James, Dawnswyr Nantgarw, one of Wales' top traditional folk dance teams and harpist and singer, Gwenan Gibbard. The visual arts were also represented by painters Neil Carroll and Sarah Carter, through the support and sponsorship of Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery.

Calan's success rounded off an excellent week for the Welsh performers at the annual Celtic gathering, the largest to date - an estimated 800,000 people visited the small Breton city over the ten days. The quality of the Welsh musicians, dancers and artists lifted the profile of Wales and audiences showed their appreciation night after night. On Saturday 7th August, Parti Cut Lloi, Dawnswyr Nantgarw and Gwenan Gibbard performed to 11,000 people in the opening spectacular 'Nuit Interceltique', with Mabon and Calan performing to packed venues at all their concerts. Parti Cut Lloi were also fortunate to be involved in a performance of a new symphony based on themes of Celtic music, composed by Didier Roper and performed for the first time in the festival's main 3,000- seat pavilion.

However, despite the impact made by the Welsh performers and artists, Wales was also conspicuous by the absence of a pavilion in a year when all other Celtic regions were present. Cornwall and the Isle of Man provided pavilions to present their culture and tourism, alongside the Scots, Galicians, Asturians and Irish.

Brittany was the featured region for this 40th anniversary, showcasing its enormous amount of musical and cultural talent. Next year will feature the Celtic Diaspora, Celtic peoples who have made their homes in other parts of the world like Nova Scotia, Patagonia, the United States and Australia, but still hold fast to their traditions and languages.

The ten day event closed on Sunday evening with a two-hour broadcast of the 'Nuit Interceltique' for the first time on prime-time French television, featuring the Welsh performers alongside those from the other regions. Antwn Owen Hicks, organiser for the Wales delegation, said, "After 40 years, the festival continues to go from strength to strength. It is a unique and valuable event for Wales to be involved in, for Welsh performers and artists to engage with audiences on this scale and to meet and collaborate with artists from the other Celtic regions. Long may it continue!"

www.festival-interceltique.com
www.calan-band.com

www.mabon.org

www. gwenangibbard .com

Welsh Music: more blatant new welsh cd adverts - @gerard-kilbride

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:25:37 +0000

two new welsh cds ready for download,
Brothers Dan and Gerard KilBrides new acoustic live duo with fiddle and guitar- sidan called "alltwalis", welsh music with a twist.

www.cdbaby.com/cd/sidan

and juice's first cd e motions, thats Brothers Bernard and Daniels- dance band

www.cdbaby.com/cd/juice9

hope you enjoy them

Gerard

GJK 1940-2010 IHS

Welsh Music: GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS - @john-f-wake

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:24:01 +0000

GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS have turned down the applicaton for LLanfairPg (the full name) to be entered as the 'longest one word song title in the world'. \I would have thought Supercalifragilisticexpialladocious was the longest at the moment. They say it cannot create the category as then it would have to create other categories such as, 'the longest one word book name in the world'. Well I thought that's what GUINESS was into anyway. The song appears as it's full name on the new album below.Am I misguided in thinking the Guiness Book of Records is wrong here?'Heart of Wales' Lorraine King with Cwtch me Cariad, Fields of Pencelli, National Anthem, Mermaid of Cardigan Bay, Lovespoon Song 1667ad, Llanfair................ to name a few. hottownmusic@googlemail.com

Welsh Music: LLWYBR LLAETHOG new album - @john-griffiths

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:21:47 +0000

Welsh electro-dub pioneers LLWYBR LLAETHOG release their 13th album CURIAD CARIAD on 5th December via the LLWYBR LLAETHOG facebook page. Celebrating the band's 26 years in the business, the album features vocal contributions from Geraint Jarman, David R.Edwards, Mark Roberts [ex-Catatonia/Cyrff] and Catrin Dafydd.
CURIAD CARIAD [Lovebeat] will be released on the NEUD NID DEUD label and will be available on CD or as a download.
Here is a link to the band's page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Llwybr-Llaethog/151798148250622

Welsh Music: Pigyn Clust - @roger-c-roberts

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:20:03 +0000

After Pigyn Clust disbanded because of Fion's untimely death I have not heard word of any other group playing in the style of the band. Seem to recall that Carreg Llfar has also disbanded.
The only samples of "active" Cymreig bands I have come across are from current commercial (BBC regulated?) radio airplay which simply leaves me shaking my head. The word that comes to mind is "Taffy", a word I thought our people were trying to get away from.
I am looking for exactally what the Brisith music critics once said about Pygyn Clust: "So young, so talented, and so WELSH!" (If the English would learn to speak a decent language maybe they would find the World a better place..." LOL!
RCR, Central Ohio

Welsh Music: Caitlin Moran's TV column, The Times. "Tom Jones singing? It's an energy ray from deep within his gonads". - @ceri-shaw

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:12:51 +0000

Welsh Music: The Steve BLackstone Band - @steve-blackstone

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:10:14 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/user/BlackstoneBand#p/u/3/dNaiX4qkEtA
HI my name is Steve Blackstone, i thought some of you would be interested in this song if you would like me to post the english language version i will. thanks Steve

Welsh Music: New Taran Cd - @gerard-kilbride

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 19:57:34 +0000

Hotel Rex the second CD from the welsh folk house pioneers Taran
A year in the making, recorded in three different countries, B rittany, S cotland and W ales, written and produced by G erard K ilBride. with the bands core talent of D an K ilBride, G erard K ilBride, G afin M organ, D ave D anford , F elix P epler and R hodri S mith and outstanding guest performances by Pacsal L amour, I wan K avalez, K ate R onconi- W oollard, B ill T aylor, B eatrice L e B ihan, A ntwn O wen- H icks, L inda O wen- H icks, T om J ackson, R obert E vans, M ary- A nne R oberts, S arah B lackburn and B eth G ibson.

Available digitally on itunes and cdbaby
http://cdbaby.com/cd/taran12

and pre order the limited edition CD from taran@k-bros.co.uk , www.sadwrn.com
T aran are one of the most inventive and imaginative bands to come out of W ales in a generation, with their innovative mix of traditional W elsh music welded to driving riffs and throbbing beats, swimming in a sea of dance loops, grooves and samples.
“ C aused earthquakes, shook buildings and generally turned Brittany upside down and inside out.” S imon J ones - F olk R oots.

“ A udiences come electrifyingly alive when T aran light the blue touch paper.” M ick T ems - T aplas.

“ S eriously raise the profile of W elsh traditional music" D ave H aslam - R ock and R eel
http://www.myspace.com/ourspacetaran
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-kilbride/07-catraeth
Beats, Bards and Bagpipes

Genealogy: The Cynefin Project Calls For Volunteers - @gaabi

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:47:53 +0000

From the site :- Cynefin : Mapping Wales’ sense of Place : This is a crowdsourcing website which gives users the opportunity to contribute to a digitisation project using high quality recently digitised material. This will lead to the development of a Geographic system which will make it much easier for people to connect to their heritage though digitised and transcribed tithe maps and indexes. As these maps are digitised there will be opportunities for the public to contribute to the value of the project as follows....... more here

READ MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT HERE

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Darris G. Williams January 30, 2015 at 8:18am
This map project is really quite simple. I like that you don't have to do a lot at any one time. I love that this is being done for Wales with the opportunity for volunteers to help from anywhere in the world.
Matthew Reese January 29, 2015 at 7:08pm
This looks really cool, but I doubt I could be much use.
Ceri Shaw January 29, 2015 at 4:40pm
If anyone does decide to become involved in this project please let us know. I am considering volunteering myself

Genealogy: Any Welsh Copper Smelter Workers in Your Family Tree? - @mona-everett

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:31:17 +0000

Any Welsh Copper Smelter Workers in Your Family Tree?

Posted by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 12:30pm in Genealogy
Back to Genealogy Discussions

Hi,

Just curious if any of the folks on Americymru trace their Welsh roots back to any copper smelter workers in South Wales? Particularly any that came to the US in the 1840s-50s to smelt copper in Baltimore, MD? My DAVIES/DAVIS and REESE/REES families lived in Llanelli (Seaside and Wern), Pontardulais (Llwyn Adam Farm), and Swansea (Cnap Coch) at least, before coming to the US.

I have not been able to find any living relatives in Wales and think it is a shame, as it is not that long ago that these people left for America.

Thanks!

Mona

See photos and read more: http://americymrunet.jamroomhosting.com/mona-everett/blog/892/any-welsh-copper-smelter-workers-in-your-family-tree
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Reply by thistle on January 10, 2011 at 1:04pm
Hi Mona --

I too have ancestors who came from Llanelli (Wern as well!) but mine ended up in the Pittsburgh/southwestern PA area. I noticed on your profile that you are researching the Rees surname...any chance that you have a Jane Rees (b. 1791, d. 3 January 1863) somewhere in your tree? I also noticed from your profile that you have Lewis ancestors - any chance that they were from Wern too? I'm trying to track down any info on my Lewis family who lived on Tunnel Road in Wern.

Nice to see someone else with Wern ties!!

Reply by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 1:12pm
Hi,
Here is my Davies/Davis info. Margaret REES/E married into this bunch (second generation). My LEWIS people were here in the US (Virginia and Tennessee--before 1776 and I have no idea where they came from before that--may not even have been Wales!

Will look for more REES/e info:

Descendants of David W. Davis b. abt. 1800 and brother Daniel
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1-Unknown
+Unknown
|--2-David W. Davis b. Abt 1800, Wales, d. 13 Jan 1854, Baltimore, MD, bur.
| Baltimore Cemetery, Baltimore, MD, superintendent at Copperworks
| +Mary b. Abt 1800, Wales, d. 29 Apr 1881, Baltimore , MD
| |--3-Thomas D. Davis b. Abt 1822, Wales, d. 25 Apr 1890, Baltimore, MD, bur.
| | 28 Apr 1890, Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD, superintendent at Copperworks
| | +Unknown in Wales (likely GLA)
| | |--4-David W. Davis b. Abt 1842, (likely GLA) Wales, d. 2 Jan 1881, Bernalillo, NM,
| | | bur. Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--4-William Davis b. Abt 1844, (likely GLA) Wales, d. 17 Aug 1886, Baltimore, MD,
| | | bur. 19 Aug 1886, Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD, copper smelter
| | +Margaret Reese b. Wales, d. Baltimore, Maryland (after the 1860 census), bur. Mt. Carmel
| | Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--4-Mary Davis b. 12 Sep 1851, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 1 Jan 1926,
| | | Baltimore, Maryland, bur. Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | +Jacob Crone b. Abt 1847, d. 1 Jan 1926, Baltimore, Maryland
| | | |--5-Mary Lillian Crone d. 16 Jun 1973, Baltimore, Maryland, bur. 19
| | | | Jun 1973, Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Margaret Crone b. Abt 1870, d. 15 Feb 1872, Baltimore, Maryland
| | | |--5-Harry D. Crone b. Abt 1873, d. 1911
| | | |--5-Thomas D. Crone b. Abt 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 7 May 1947,
| | | | Baltimore, Maryland, bur. Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--4-John L. Davis b. 16 Oct 1853, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 1 Sep 1938,
| | | Baltimore, MD, bur. 3 Sep 1938, Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | +Maria A. Kelly b. Abt 1857, Maryland, d. 2 Apr 1909, East Chicago,
| | | IL, bur. 7 Apr 1909, Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Cora V. Davis b. Baltimore, Maryland, d. 8 Feb 1910, Mt. Hope
| | | | Retreat, Baltimore County, MD, bur. Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore,
| | | | MD
| | | |--5-James Edgar Davis b. Baltimore , MD, d. 1938, Baltimore , MD
| | | |--5-Thomas Edwin Davis b. Abt Jun 1879, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 19
| | | | Jul 1880, Baltimore, MD, bur. 21 Jul 1880, Baltimore Cemetery,
| | | | Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Estella Davis b. 6 Jul 1875, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 17 Dec 1920,
| | | | Baltimore, MD, bur. 21 Dec 1920, Oak Lawn Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Nattie May Davis b. Abt Jan 1878, Baltimore County, MD, d. 28 May
| | | | 1878, Baltimore, MD, bur. 30 May 1878, Mt. Carmel Cemetery,
| | | | Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Harry Benjamin Davis b. 31 Aug 1885, Baltimore, Maryland, d. 3
| | | | Nov 1944, New York, NY
| | | |--5-John Thomas Davis b. 6 Sep 1892, Baltimore, MD, d. 10 Sep 1973,
| | | | Tucson, AZ, bur. 13 Sep 1973, Southlawn, Tucson, AZ
| | |--4-Rosanna Davis b. Abt 1857
| | |--4-Thomas E. Davis b. Abt 1858, d. Abt 11 Jan 1930, Baltimore , MD,
| | | bur. 11 Jan 1930, Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | +Henrietta T. d. Abt 2 Aug 1939, bur. 2 Aug 1939, Druid Ridge
| | Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--5-Henrietta Davis b. MD, d. Abt 21 Oct 1948, Colorado
| | +Catherine Rourke d. Baltimore, MD, bur. Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore,
| | MD
| | |--4-Estella Davis b. 23 Sep 1861, Baltimore, MD, d. 17 Feb 1949,
| | | Baltimore, MD, bur. Feb 1949, Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | +Louis H. Fehsenfeld b. MD, bur. Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-Theo Fehsenfeld
| | | |--5-Matilda Fehsenfeld d. 3 Mar 1946, Baltimore, MD, bur. 5 Mar 1946,
| | | | Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--4-Harry Bryant Davis b. 1 Jun 1866, Baltimore, MD, d. 10 May 1943,
| | | Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, bur. 12 May 1943, Druid
| | | Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | +Jessie Patrick b. Herkimer, NY, d. 30 Jun 1920, Baltimore, MD, bur.
| | | Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | | |--5-H. Braithwaite Davis b. Abt 1907
| | | +Edith Mann Stoughton bur. Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| | |--4-Marion Davis b. Abt 1868
| | +Robert Earl
| |--3-John Davis b. Wales
| |--3-Sarah Davis b. Abt 1830, Wales, d. 13 Oct 1891
| +Thomas James b. Abt 1825, Wales, d. 12 Apr 1887, copper smelter
| |--4-Mary James b. Abt 1861, Baltimore , MD
|--2-Daniel Davis b. Abt 1813, Wales, d. 2 Feb 1866, Baltimore, MD, bur.
| Baltimore, MD (lived for awhile at Llwyn Adam, near Pontarddulais, GLA, Wales), superintendent of Copperworks
+Mary A. \\ b. Abt 1814, Wales
|--3-Sarah Davis b. Abt 1830, Wales
| +John Williams b. Abt 1829
|--3-Ann Davis b. Abt 1832, Wales
|--3-Elizabeth Davis b. Abt 1835, Wales
|--3-John Davis b. Abt 1837, Wales
|--3-Hannah Davis b. Abt 1840, Wales, d. 28 Jul 1912, Baltimore, MD, bur. 31
| Jul 1912, Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
| +David Davis
|--3-Daniel Davis b. Abt 1846
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Reply by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 1:32pm
The REESE I am most interested in is:

John T. REESE, b. abt. 1822, Wales; married Elizabeth (maiden name MAY have been BEVAN, but not sure) in Wales; some of their children were baptized in Llanelli in the ealry 1830s, then they moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he worked as a copper smelterman. They lived in Connecticut briefly, then went to Butte, Montana, where he continued to smelt copper. They both died in Butte, but are both buried in Baltimore. John REESE also lived for a short time on Llwyn Adam farm in Pontarddulais.

I also think John REESE had a brother Thomas (also a smelter) and Margaret REESE who married into my DAVIES line might have been their sister.

I cannot locate all the children's names that were baptized in Wales--will keep looking--haven't had time for this in over a year!

The key to my family is that copper smelter workers were close-knit!

Thanks,

Mona
Reply by thistle on January 10, 2011 at 2:27pm
Hi Mona -

Here's an interesting thing...I also have one of the lines in my family that went from Llanelli to Connecticut! They seem to have gone back to Llanelli though! I wish that I could say that their surname was BEVAN, but it's BOWEN.

I've been trying to piece together bits of info on my Jane Rees (I just got a copy of her will a few weeks ago) and I learned a bit from that, but sadly, nothing about the rest of her line!

Have you been over to Llanelli? I've managed to visit a few times and I absolutely LOVE it. I'm hoping to go again sometime this Spring, so if you want me to check in to anything for you, just let me know!
Reply by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 2:35pm
Yes--I've been to Llanelli a couple of times and did some research there--but really wish I could go more often and stay longer! I found the parish registers with the baptisms at the National Library in Aberystwyth--also some place I need a lot more time! I don't know when I will get another chance to go for research--I was in Cardiff for 3 weeks this past summer, but only spent one day in Swansea and never made it anywhere else. There is always so much to do (and friends to see) that time flies. Any info about the copper works or what Wern was like pre-1841 would be great, but only if you stumble upon it! Were your BOWENs copper workers? When were they in CT? Have you had any luck finding living relatives in Wales?
Reply by Rea Williams on January 10, 2011 at 7:04pm
Mona,

Google -- "Copper smelting: its history and processes / by Henry Hussey Vivian"
to see:
The Baltimore Copper Works
Page 84
Mr. Davis, chief smelter

Gunpowder Copper Works was operated by Levi Hollingsworth from 1811 to 1838
http://www.bcplonline.org/info/history/hist_pe_gunpowder.html
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=21523

The Hafod Copperworks - Swansea 1810-1924
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/swansea/pages/hafod_copp...

google -- "CG Hussey copper" to see:
A Genealogical and Biographical History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
The folks on these links listed abouve are all related to me, my roots are in Wales. I have Hussey, Reese (rees), Davis (davies), Bevan and Bowen in my families at http://rea-williams.com

Rea Williams
Reply by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 9:22pm
Rea--Have you sen the book, Hanes Cynry America? Check out pages 153-155 here:
http://ohio.llgc.org.uk/syllwr/arddangos_mets.php?xmlfile=HCA00001&...

The Davies and Reese people are mine!

I will go look at your webpage--we likely have relatives in common!

Mona
Reply by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 9:30pm
Hi, I don't see a connection on your webpage--maybe I am missing something. The ones at Gunpowder Falls in the mid-late 1800s and the ones in Canton, Baltimore, and I think the ones with the Hafod Works (or at least at Cnap Coch) are mine.

Help me out with the connection. Which of the people at Gunpowder Falls are yours? I was out there and saw the historic marker and the remaining buildings.

Thanks!

Mona

Genealogy: Archive - Genealogy Group Comment 1 - @americymru

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:11:46 +0000

Comment by Richard Williams-Ellis on March 26, 2013 at 4:44am
My acccount of the "Aberffraw" lineage descent, as described, was limited to the male entitlement of " Princes of Gwynedd ", from Owain Gwynedd to the present day, and is, I think, accurate.Accordingly this did not take account of "Daughters", whether of Llewelyn's or subsequently, and I would, not being a Genealogist, get very lost in trying to trace such descendants as may - very well - exist. So, I may be able to help to an extent with the Anwyls of Parc ( The Plas of Parc, Llanfrothen - near to where I live - is now owned by The Clough Williams-Ellis Foundation, and tenanted by a friend ) in so far as they were direct male descendants of Owain Gwynedd and my ( identifiable )direct male ancestors since. But, otherwise, I do not think that I can help very much? Good Luck! and best wishes. And do contact as you wish. Richard
Comment by Anumpeshi Aduddell on March 25, 2013 at 11:00am
MY MAIDEN NAME IS MASON AND I DESCEND THROUGH THE LINEAGE OF RALPH MORTIMER AND GWLADYS DDU AP LLYWELYN AP IORWORTH THROUGH MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER BRICKEY THREE TIMES REMOVED WHO EMIGRATED TO THE AMERICAS IN THE 1700'S WHERE SHE MARRIED MY MASON ANCESTOR JESSE JAMES MASON WHO WAS A NEPHEW OF WILLIAM MASON FIRST GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA. I HAVE ACCESS TO AN OLD FAMILY DIARY THAT ATTESTS TO THIS AS WELL AS OTHER INFORMATION APPERTAINING TO SAME. I AM CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF COMPLETING A PROJECT FOR A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION REGARDING INDIGENOUS AMERICAN AFFAIRS OF WHICH I AM A PRINCIPAL OFFICER AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DESIGNATE TIME TO THE ACCUMULATION OF THE APPROPRIATE SUBSTANTIATING INFORMATION UNTIL THE FIRST OF THE MONTH OF APRIL. AT THIS TIME IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED ANY ASSISTANCE YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GIVE ME IN THIS REGARD. AS AN ASIDE JESSE JAMES MASON UPON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE TOOK HIS SON BY THE BRICKEY LINEAGE UPON HIS SHOULDERS AND WALKED TO LOUISIANA TERRITORY INSPIRED BY THE MADOC AP OWAIN GWYNEDD STORY AND INTERMARRIED WITH THE CHOCTAW KINGS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
YN YR YSBRYD O PRINCE MADOC
NI YW'R DAWNSWYR YSBRYD
Comment by Richard Williams-Ellis on March 25, 2013 at 6:16am
As indicated in my last "Comment" the Iorworth ap Owain Gwynedd lineage of the "Aberffraw" descent of the titular Princes of Gwynedd came to an end with the death of Owain Lawgoch in 1378. It then passed by male seniority to descendants of Iorworth's younger half-brother Prince Rhodri ap Owain Gwynedd, ( his Mother was Owain's 2nd wife and cousin, Christina ).It was Robert ap Meredudd who succeeded in this new senior line. It died out with the last baronet of the Wynns of Gwydir, and then came to the descendants of his younger brother, Ieuan ap Maredudd, and thus to Lewis Anwyl of Parc, died 1605. From his eldest son, William Lewis Anwyl, descend in the male line the extant Anwyls of Tywyn, the de jure Princes, and from his younger brother, Maurice ap Lewis Anwyl, descend the Williams-Ellis family ( including Clough of Plas Clough nee W-E ) of which I am one. We descend from Owain Gwynedd,( and HIS ancestors, Rhodri Mawr etc )Father to Son without break. My Grandfather, born 1833, and his elder brother ( Changed his name to Clough ) were the only two, but there are quite a few of us now. With the Anwyls of Towyn we are, I think, the only, and genealogically well recorded, family descendants now of Owain's , but v. happy to be corrected!? Hence, also, a personal interest in Prince Magog ap Owain Gwynedd's possible discovery of America in 1170, he being a half-brother to my direct ancestor.....
Comment by Anumpeshi Aduddell on March 21, 2013 at 8:46pm
DO YOU KNOW HOW I MIGHT MAKE CONTACT WITH THE ANWYL FAMILY. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING TAKING A TRIP TO WALES TO TRACE OUR WELSH DEEP ROOTS. BEFORE THIS WE WERE HOPING TO DO SOME BASIC FACT GATHERING HERE AS PREPARATION BEFORE GOING. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION.
Comment by Richard Williams-Ellis on March 21, 2013 at 10:14am
It is very interesting that you can trace your ancestry to Prince Iorworth ap Owain Gwynedd, who was in the senior lineage of the "Aberffraw" descent of the Princes of Gwynedd as their title ended with Owain Lawgoch's death, and the "Aberffraw" entitlement then transfered to the descendants of Prince Rhodri ap Owain Gwynedd. Some of them, including the Anwyl family the de jure Prince of Gwynedd's family are known and living still in Wales.
Descendents of Iorworth, father of Llewelyn the Great, particularly after Owain Lawgoch become rather uncertain, and then seem to become unknown. so that new revelations would be great?
Comment by Anumpeshi Aduddell on March 19, 2013 at 7:07pm
I AM JUST BEGINNING TO TRACE MY WELSH ANCESTRY WITH MY HUSBAND. WE ARE DISTANTLY RELATED; HE FROM NORTH POWYS AND EASTERN GWYNEDD AND MY ANCESTRY IS FROM GWYNEDD. WE ARE ALSO BRYTHONIC FRENCH (THE LE STRANGE FAMILY), WESTERN DANISH (THISTED) AND CHOCTAW (FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED BY THE US GOVERNMENT AS 1/4 BLOOD QUANTUM). DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE LEGAL PROCEDURES ARE FOR RECOGNITION AS WELSH? IS THERE ONE? I CAN TRACE MY LINEAGE DIRECTLY TO THE HOUSE OF ABERFFRAU AND OWAIN GWYNEDD THROUGH IORWERTH.
Comment by Ceri Shaw on October 5, 2011 at 10:23am
Important announcements coming soon in AmeriCymru Genealogy Group. Watch this space!
Comment by mona everett on March 21, 2011 at 8:03pm
AS Wales’ First Minister he’s never far from the headlines.
But Carwyn Jones has opened up on his normally private family life to reveal the story of his great uncle.
Leading Aircraftman Edgar Hopkin, from Gwaun Cae Gurwen in Carmarthenshire, was killed while in Alabama in 1942 during World War II. He was Mr Jones’ great uncle on his father’s side.
Now Mr Jones is uploading photographs of the RAF pilot to historical website People’s Collection Wales, an archive of reminiscences, photographs, video and audio in the hope that others can learn his history.
Mr Jones told the Echo: “When my great aunt died in 1993 all the family heirlooms came to me – photographs, Edgar’s service card from the RAF.
“We knew a lot of his story already, he was one of five siblings, which included my grandmother, and he was the first in the family to be accepted to university.
“He was a collier’s son going to read medicine at Edinburgh University – but he never went.”
The First Minister and his family that Edgar, who was just 19 when he died, had been sent to the US for warm weather and didn’t when his aircraft got into difficulty.
“We knew he was buried in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, near other family members, and we even had a cine film of the funeral,” said Mr Jones.
“I decided to put his name into Google and it found pictures on . I decided to contact the site administrator who told me Edgar’s instructor was still alive.”
Read More.

Comment by mona everett on March 21, 2011 at 3:28pm
ONE DAY FREE UK Census!
Get ready! To mark Census Day 2011, we’re letting you access all our UK census record indexes, from England, Wales and Scotland, completely FREE, for 24 hours!
27th March will be a historic day, as we all come together to complete the 2011 National Census. While you’re filling in details of your age, birthplace and relationships, you can use our FREE indexes to look back at your ancestors who did exactly the same thing every ten years, right back to 1841. You can then view the original historical records by taking our 14 day Free Trial.
If you’ve just started tracing your family tree, census records are the perfect first step. They list everybody in each household all over the country, together with crucial details such as their ages and birthplaces. So, you can quickly and easily collect names and dates for several generations.
Even if you’ve pieced together much of your family’s story, censuses can help you fill in those frustrating gaps. You might find a mysterious great-aunt listed with a birthplace abroad, so you’ll need to check passenger lists to see when she arrived. Or maybe a disappearing great-uncle will turn up with a brand new family in another part of the country!
The new census section on our site gives you some tips to help you search our census records.
Plus, keep checking this blog all week for a number of articles dedicated to censuses, past and present.
Make sure you on 27th March for your FREE access. In the meantime, why not start a FREE family tree at our site? As you add your best guesses of dates and places for your ancestors, we’ll automatically search for them in our records, and give you some handy Hints to get you started on Census Day.

Genealogy: Archive - Genealogy Group Comment 2 - @americymru

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:09:53 +0000

mona everett Comment by mona everett on January 10, 2011 at 12:26pm
    We're pleased to announce four genealogy workshops scheduled for the 2011 North American Festival of Wales!

    Read more about them and the 2011 NAFOW: http://americymru.net/group/northamericanfestivalofwales2011clevela...

Susan Thomas Thompson Comment by Susan Thomas Thompson on November 23, 2010 at 2:24am
    Just discovered a village page for Pencader, the ancestral home of my great grandfather Thomas Thomas. I loved seeing the pictures and getting a feel. It gives me a great loning to visit those villages and stand in those green valleys. Some dayI will get there...

Dai Williams Comment by Dai Williams on April 27, 2010 at 9:54am
    Now my mothers mothers side

    Elizabeth Felicia Gwendraith Bath Abercynon 1930's

    mother Velmai Harris Williams Married Joseph Bath Abercynon 1910's

    John Thomas Williams married Bronwen Harris Mountain Ash 1890's

    John Williams married Rachel Jenkins Dowlias 1850's

    Seth Harris married Elizabeth Camarthenshire 1840's

    David Harris married Mary Camarthenshire 1820's

Dai Williams Comment by Dai Williams on April 27, 2010 at 9:47am
    Just in case there are any relations out there I'll start with my father and his fathers side

    So My father Evan Glyndwr Williams Trefforest 1920's

    Evan Williams married Alice Kate Burt Trefforest 1900's

    Rees Williams Married Mary Davies Merthyr Tydfil 1860's

    Isaac Williams Married Ann ???? Merthyr Tydfil 1830's

Wendell Bowen Comment by Wendell Bowen on December 29, 2009 at 9:27pm
    I would think that we Emily and I agree that DNA is the best way to solve our genealogy puzzle.

Emily Doolin Aulicino Comment by Emily Doolin Aulicino on December 28, 2009 at 9:42pm
    Yes, Wendell, you are correct. They do not give you the result so you must use some computer skills to get it. I have two pages of directions for the Y and for the mtDNA if anyone needs it to get their result. I don't believe it is easy to contact people who match you, however. That is my goal with testing....to find others who match me so we can work together to find that common ancestor

    There are many who don't have the patience to glean their info, but maybe it is worth it to them for free. ALSO, it can take months to years to get your info on their website. Frankly, in my opinion, you usually get what you pay for.

    Sorenson's goal was to show that everyone is related. He asked for DNA and a pedigree chart to show that. Geneticists have told us for years we are all related. How in terms of genealogy is the concern. If I can't contact those who relate to me, then the whole think is worthless to me. However, others have used his company. I know many who have switched...whatever works for you is grand. I'm always pleased to see people testing. Genealogy isn't as accurate without DNA testing.

    I just do NOT want people to be disappointed in what they get from various companies. You really, really must have your goals and see what company best works for you. My blog site helps you with that.

    Best wishes,
    E

Wendell Bowen Comment by Wendell Bowen on December 28, 2009 at 9:22pm
    The site I gave you for DNA was founded by Sorenson who was a Utah Millionaire that left a foundation to continue Genealogy DNA research. They do not give you your results back, but you can figure out what your markers are once they put it on line. They do both the y and mtDNA. I both paid for my results and sent it to them and receive forty two markers that are all the same.
    My interest in the program is to identify cousins. Not for profit.

Ceri Shaw Comment by Ceri Shaw on December 28, 2009 at 8:19pm
    True....I think we'll probably tolerate that though. If I alter the the hyperlink I lose any links to the page that might be out there.

Ceri Shaw Comment by Ceri Shaw on December 28, 2009 at 8:02pm
    No worries I cant believe that no one ( myself included ) spotted that before. Many thanks for pointing it out.

Emily Doolin Aulicino Comment by Emily Doolin Aulicino on December 28, 2009 at 6:28pm
    Thanks on correcting the name of the group! LOL....sorry to be such a teacher!