Hello All,
Posted with permission, so if you can help, please respond to me off-list at
mona_sydd_yma(a)yahoo.com
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 called Ninnau & Y Drych) 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