Past Events & News
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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.
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 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).
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.
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.
