By invitation of the Welsh government, representatives of WSWNE attended a cocktail party and media breakfast in Newport, RI to celebrate the Volvo Ocean Race boats representing Wales that were being readied for the next leg of the race from Newport, RI to Cardiff, Wales.
First Annual Noson Lawen
Upstate New York & Vermont Trip in the "Spring" - a Slate Museum Visit
WSWNE celebrates St. David's Day!
St. David's Day with WSWNE
The annual St. David’s Day Gathering of the Welsh Society of Western New England (WSWNE) was held on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the Nutmeg restaurant in East Windsor, CT where several of our members provided a program about a variety of things Welsh: red dragons, the anthem, leeks, daffodils, and the salmon.
Hiraeth & Hymns in Hartford
On Saturday, December 7th, 2013 we reconvened at the Town and County Club in downtown Hartford for their winter gathering. Pamela Petro, a multi-talented artist and author of three works of travel literature addressed the group on the subject of hiraeth, reading passages from her new book provisionally titled, “Hiraeth In and Outside Wales.”