Hello All,
If you can help, please respond to me off-list at mona_sydd_yma(a)yahoo.com.
I've been a member of this list for several years and have been to Wales 3 times (and
looking forward to going again), so this isn't a "stranger" asking.
I am on the Board of two non-profit Welsh-American organizations--the Welsh National
Gymanfa Ganu Association (
www.wnnga.org) and the Great Plains Welsh Heritage Project
(
www.welshheritage.org).
The WNGGA puts on the wonderful North American Festival of Wales each September, which
draws people from all over, including Wales. We also bring over Welsh performers, choirs,
and speakers for the 4-day event.
The GPWHP has a wonderful Welsh museum and archives and also holds one of the only
complete collections of Y Drych on microfilm.Y Drych is the only Welsh-American newspaper
(now calledNinnau) and dates from the mid-1800s, with the earlier years written totally in
Welsh. The museum offers obit look-ups and translations for a modest fee. The GWPHP also
holds a terrific Welsh Heritage Weekend every other October, drawing people from all over
the US and even from Wales and holds other events throughout the year.
Both of these organizations are in need of items to sell as fundraisers. Notecards (and
maybe calendars)with pictures of Wales are wonderful and not generally available over
here. I have made some from some of the photos I have taken on my trips to Wales, but am
looking for other (and better) photographers to donate some images that we can make into
notecards and Christmas cards and St. David's cards (and maybe calendars).
If you have some images you'd like to donate to these 2 causes, you can email me high
resolution jpegs, along with your name and copyright date, which we will include on the
photo, and a short statement giving us permission to use them for the above causes. I will
mail you a copy of the finished notecard(s) and the gratitude of both organizations if you
send your postal address.
Thank you very much--and please reply off-list.
Mona Everett