St. David’s Day Welsh Government Event in Hartford, CT

St. David’s Day Welsh Government Event in Hartford, CT

The Welsh Society of Western New England (WSWNE) was invited by the British Consul General to New England, Dr. Peter Abbott OBE, with the sponsorship of the Welsh Government and Metro Alliance Hartford, to a cocktail and networking evening at the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.

Sarah Woodbury - ZOOM Event on Welsh history as context for her novels

Sarah Woodbury - ZOOM Event on Welsh history as context for her novels

In a WSWNE ZOOM event, Sarah Woodbury, author of fifty novels set in medieval Wales, presented a fascinating overview of the major periods of Welsh history that provide the context for her five series of novels, each series set in a different period.

Our YouTube video of this this ZOOM event is included in the Past Event description.

The A470 - Poetry Along The Road in Wales, a special ZOOM Event

The A470 - Poetry Along The Road in Wales, a special ZOOM Event

The A470 - Poetry Along The Road in Wales, is a wonderful new* book about experiencing Wales by following the A470 (arguably the most famous road in Wales) in poetry. It includes 51 original poems, translated into and out of Welsh, to create an entirely bilingual poetry collection.

This special ZOOM presentation features  - Adele Evershed (NAFOW Eisteddfod Poem in English Language Winner),  Sian Northey (editor and translator), Ness Owen (editor and translator), and Cherry Potts (Director, Arachne Press Limited).

A link to a YouTube video of this this ZOOM event is included in the Past Event description.

Hidden History: 100 Year Anniversary of Welsh Women's Peace Petition to the USA

Hidden History: 100 Year Anniversary of Welsh Women's Peace Petition to the USA

Ann Griffith and Susan Davies Sit, members of Heddwch Nain Mamgu USA, presented “ Hidden History”.

It told the story of how 390,000 signatures were collected by Welsh Women and given to American Women in a Peace Petition following the horrors of WW1.

You can watch the recording of our ZOOM event even if you did not sign up for the original live program.

Gareth Jones, The Man Who Knew Too Much

Gareth  Jones, The Man Who Knew Too Much

On Jan. 18, 2023, our special ZOOM presentation presented the fascinating story of Gareth Jones, the investigative journalist who told the world about Stalin’s 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine in which millions perished.

Our presenter was Margaret West, from Rhayader, mid-Wales, now a journalist based in Washington DC, and a founding producer of NPR’s "Talk of the Nation”. On the foreign desk, she edited reports from Russia and Europe.

This presentation drew world-wide interest, particularly from the Ukrainian diaspora, to make this our largest-ever WSWNE ZOOM audience.

You can watch the recording of our ZOOM event even if you did not sign up for the original live program.

WELSH FOOD STORIES on ZOOM from Wales

WELSH FOOD STORIES on ZOOM from Wales

On Jan. 8, 2023, our first SPECIAL ZOOM presentation of five to kick off 2023, WELSH FOOD STORIES, by the author Carwyn Graves, direct from Wales, was so good that a ZOOM recording has been made available to all for a limited time.

The author kept us spellbound as he took us along on what the Amazon.com book description called: A culinary travelogue across Wales.

Owain Glyndwr Wine And Welsh Cheese Tasting Event - Sept. 16, 2022

Owain Glyndwr Wine And Welsh Cheese Tasting Event - Sept. 16, 2022

A September Afternoon with Friends
by Margaret Korhonen, WSWNE Board Member
Reprinted from our WSWNE January Newsletter (recently given the name: Croeso!–Welcome!)

A sunny, warm September afternoon found many members and friends of WSWNE sharing time together at Lost Acres Vineyard in Granby, CT.

The Mabinogi Webinar Series

The Mabinogi Webinar Series

MABINOGI WEBINAR SUCCESS

During the month of March, almost thirty people signed on to Zoom each Thursday to join the Welsh Society of Western New England in learning about the Four Branches of The Mabinogi from members John Bollard and Margaret Lloyd of Florence, Massachusetts. Each week our homework was to read one of the four branches.