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Newyddiadur Cymru /
Welsh Newspaper
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If you’ll be traveling this year and want to view the “Turner
to Cezanne: masterpieces from the Davies Collection” art exhibit touring the
USA from the National Museum of Wales (article in the Feb.-June 2009 issue of
Dragon Tales, bottom of
page 15), you still have two chances.
The exhibit, which started out in Columbia, SC, and then
went to Oklahoma City, leaves Syracuse, NY in late January.. 2010 locations
are:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Jan.30-April 25 (http://www.corcoran.org/)
and Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, May 16-Aug. 8.(
http://www.cabq.gov/museum/)
Casglu'r Tlysau / Gathering the Jewels -- over 20,00 images of Welsh
life through the ages -- objects, books, historic letters, clothing,
paintings, artifacts, aerial photographs, and other items gathered from
museums, libraries and record offices throughout Wales.
http://www.gtj.org.uk/
The Madog Center for Welsh Studies at the University of Rio Grande
in southeastern Ohio offers courses here and through an exchange program to
Wales http://madog.rio.edu/
Welsh heritage museums in Ohio:
Welsh folk dancing classes -- a good place to get exercise,
meet new friends and learn more about Wales and the Welsh
http://www.welshcountrydancers.org
Keeping up with the Joneses in USA museums -- In Spring 2009, the
"Davies" collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings -- From
Turner to Cezanne - will begin its 13-month tour of the USA on loan from the
National museum of Wales. Announced by the Welsh Assembly Government, NYC.
(see article in February-June 2009 Dragon Tales, bottom of
page 15.)
Keeping Up With the Joneses and the Nobel Prize
-- Announced 9 October 2007 by the Welsh Assembly Government in
New York -- Sir Martin Evans, Professor of Mammalian Genetics at Cardiff
University, was yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for gene
manipulation. Sir Martin received the American Lasker Award in 2001 and was
knighted in 2003. He is generally considered to be the chief architect of
stem-cell research.
Sir Martin was honored along with two US citizens - Italian born Mario Capecchi and UK born Oliver Smithies. The award of $1.54m recognized the
team's work on introducing genetic changes in mice using embryonic stem-cells.
The breakthrough, known as gene targeting, is helping the drive to develop new
treatments for human illnesses.
American travel writers are calling Wales the "next hot
destination."-- North Wales is working to attract more tourists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7038439.stm
A computer database of Welsh place names and their
historical meaning was launched at the National Eisteddfod in Bangor,
August, 2005. (http://www.e-gymraeg.co.uk/enwaulleoedd/amr/)
The late Professor Melville Richards, of the University of
Wales, Bangor, painstakingly logged details on more than 330,000 slips of paper,
recording documentary references to many thousands of farms, fields, hills,
streams, islands, and bays in all parts of Wales. Having been transcribed
and made available online, the archive provides an unparalleled resource for
historians, genealogists, geographers, linguists, lexicographers and
archaeologists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4732993.stm
Hedd Wyn, the Bard of the black chair Eisteddfod
Hedd Wyn was the bardic name of Ellis Humphrey Evans, a
Trawsfynydd shepherd and gifted poet. Following success in local
competitions and a second place for the chair in the National Eisteddfod at
Aberystwyth, Ellis set his sights on the chair at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of
1917.
As World War I continued, pressure was brought to bear on
local farmers to send their sons to the battlefront and, as the oldest of the
sons still at home, Ellis joined up. Despite the terrible conditions of
the trenches and the skepticism of the English officers, he continued with his
composition, this time submitting it under the bardic name Fleur-de-Lis.
In Birkenhead, as the judges called out the name of the
victorious bard, there was silence in the auditorium. Hedd Wyn had been
killed six weeks earlier on July 31, 1917, during the battle for Pilckem Ridge,
Ypres. As the Western Mail reported: "Instead of the usual chairing
ceremony the chair was draped in a black pall amidst death-like silence, and the
bards came forward in long procession to place their muse-tribute of englyn or
couplet on the draped chair in memory of the dead bard hero."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/halloffame/arts/heddwyn.shtml
William Randolph Hearst's Welsh connection -- Hearst purchased at auction the carved and gilded paneling
from Gwydir Castle, Llanrwst, North Wales (now restored) and once owned St.
Donat's Castle near Llantwit Major in South Wales.
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/gwydir.htm
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