On Sunday, March 9, 2025 we had our Fourth Annual St. David’s Day Walk in Elizabeth Park, West Hartford, CT - to remember his famous guiding words: Gwnewch y pethau bychain/Do the little things. See brief description and some photos.
Recording of Rhys Mwyn's special Zoom presentation from Wales
Annual Christmas Season Luncheon 2024
Our annual Christmas Holiday Luncheon was held Saturday, Dec 7, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - at the historic Storrowton Tavern, West Springfield, MA on the grounds of the Big E (Eastern States Exposition).
After a social hour, greeting friends old and new, and a festive luncheon, complete with the popping of British Christmas crackers, we enjoyed our 2024 Holiday Season Program featuring the poetry of Margaret Lloyd and music by Wild Notes.
Owain Glyndwr Day 2024 Special ZOOM Event
In celebration of Owain Glyndwr Day 2024, the Welsh Society of Western New England (WSWNE) presented a special ZOOM event featuring a live presentation, direct from Wales, of Owain Glyndwr and His Uprising by Gareth W. Jones, M.A., Secretary of the Owain Glyndwr Society / Cymdeithas Owain Glyndwr in Wales.
Includes our YouTube video of the presentation.
Tin and Lead Miners of Wales and Cornwall
Tir - The Landscape of Wales
Welsh Women's Peace Appeal Ceremony Video
Annual St. David's Day Walk 2024
St. David's Day Luncheon 2024
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.
Beryl Evans - Welsh Tithe Maps and Database - VIDEO of a WSWNE ZOOM Genealogy Workshop
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.
Our 2023 Christmas Holiday Season Luncheon Event
Owain Glyndwr Wine and Welsh Cheese Event with author Pamela Petro
Our annual Owain Glyndwr celebraton was held Friday September 15, 2023, 4:00-6:00 PM at the beautiful Lost Acres Vineyard (80 Lost Acres Road, North Granby, CT).
Margaret Lloyd's Wales-inspired Art Exhibition Opening Reception
On Thursday, March 9, 2023 several WSWNE members attended the opening reception for the oil painting exhibition ASCENDING AND DESCENDING WORLDS on view March 3-30 in the Hosmer Gallery of Forbes Library, Northampton. The paintings include those of WSWNE member, poet, author and artist, Margaret Lloyd.
SECOND ANNUAL ST. DAVID’S DAY WALK
Annual WSWNE St. David's Day Luncheon 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
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
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.