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Thanks Bev. Nice informative websites.
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Thanks a ton. Here is my e-mail address: Dram202@yahoo.com drop me a note I'd like to talk with you further.Hwyl,Joel
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Wow! I am not sure what to say, that would be truly awesome! Thank you for such a generous offer.Joel
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Hope I am posting this in the correct spot. I am looking for some online resources for this town in Anglesey, or if anyone can lend me some information and or point me in the correct direction, I would greatly appreciate it.This is the town my Family was from before migrating to the United States, but have found little information on the web. I am trying to get some info before a family reunion this coming Saturday.Thanks in advance,JoelJoel
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I agree! Traditions always change. Life is not fixed, it is a continuum. Human beings are constantly evolving...it's a non-stop train ride to entrophy!!!Okay, I'll stop being depressing.P.S. I am not a crack pot lol!
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Please don't misunderstand my post. I wouldn't advocate any type of replacement, of traditonal Welsh heritage by injecting what is considered to be exclusively Scottish. I was simply pointing out that Celtic identity is a very gray area. Again, the kilt and tartan are up for grabs as far as I'm concerned. If you like it, wear it! I also find it important to be a scholar of your own history. This is part of the reason for me joining Americymru. We can try to be as culturally accurate as possible, but I'd be willing to bet we'll fall short.I think the trouble is, much of history is tales and lore, very difficult to decifer fact from fiction. Hollywood is no help.Bottom line...before our history, was more history, and so forth. Cultural melding shall continue long after we're gone! Identity is how each individual sees it and finds it. Don't see too much on our Cornish, Manx, and Breton cousins either. I guess we'll have to wait for the movie!The make up of Britain, is nearly as mixed as that of the United States. How much cultural sharing do you suppose went on from the Normans, Danish Vikings, Norwegian Vikings, Gaels, Britons, Romans, Picts, Frisians etc..?To think that one culture or another has any thing exclusive is absurd. Everything came from somewhere else, variations on the same theme is the way I see it.
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Leather kilts? Definitely not! As I said, I think if the Welsh kilt were recognized by the tartan society in Scotland, and properly recorded, then I don't see any issue with this. I wear either a band tartan or one of the tartans from my Scottish ancestry or close affiliation. For example, I wear the Henderson tartan. Jim Henderson was my first bagpipe teacher from Aberdeen Scotland, he was also like a father to me during my teen years. When he passed away he left me his pipes and his kilt. If I ever have children I will probably insist they wear a Henderson tartan, as it is a tradition that if a host asks you wear their tartan, you honor them in doing so. I have recently found more Scots ancestry along a maternal line in my family...Glenn, Gordon, and Wilkinson, However, it is not traditional to wear tartan along maternal lines.My original surname is Jones, which in my opinion is a very handsome Welsh tartan...alas it is commercially contrived. However, all hope is not lost, it could someday have its own provenance. Us celtic peoples have been sharing culture for centuries upon centuries.I think if we as Welsh folk decide to partake in this cultural aspect from our Scottish cousins, then we should. But we should also go about it in a correct manner. I believe we shouldn't seperate ourselves from our other cousins too much.And as I've said, I haven't really seen too much solid evidence of what culture really started tartan, and kilt. Of course the Scots (which I am too) want it to be exclusive to them, but I wouldn't say that is absolute. I will give two more examples: Don't forget that at one time Welsh peoples were found as far north as modern day Edinburgh, the Scottish clan Wallace, has Welsh roots. And lastly, tartan was supposedly only found in the Highlands and Highland clans MacDonald, MacLeod, MacDougall etc... Why is it then, that now, 'lowland' Scots wear totaly accepted tartans?As you can see, lot's of gray areas in regards to tartan.Cheers,Joel
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I think Welsh kilts are still gaining some provenance. Kilts are for sure not traditionally Welsh. For some reason the Scots seem to poke at other celtic countries who would like to adopt wearing them. I have seen some pretty heated arguments bewteen Irish and Scottish, in regards to who actually had tartan and kilts first.Personally, I don't think anyone will truly know where and when they originated. Many Scottish tartans were romantic creations by the Sobieskis, of the Tudors. Queen Victoria had designs on what she percieved, or at least wanted to believe Celtic culture was. Those that wanted a Celtic cultural revival, bit hook line and sinker this romantic version of what it was to be a Celt.Anyway, today I do wear a kilt. Infact, it is required that pipers compete in "proper highland attire". I enjoy wearing the kilt, and I don't think it matters if it is a Scottish tartan, or a newly created Welsh tartan. I do believe however, that if you choose to wear a kilt, that it be worn in the prescribed traditional fashion that is in place nowadays. Believe it or not...'highland attire' is a bit of a science.On a last note I would like to see the Welsh tartans registered so as to add some ligitimancy. Please excuse my spelling!Joel
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Fascinating, and a very interesting perspective on Celtic history. Most, if not all of it is romanticized in the United States, and I would suspect elsewhere too. Very difficult to determine truth from lore, and Hollywood certainly doesn't help us out with any form of clarity whatsoever.I haven't tried Brains yet, I'll put it on the list! Tried some Double Dragon last year, I liked it quite a bit.Cheers,Joel
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I thought the Druids were war-loving peoples? Please correct me, where you see fit.Cheers,Joel
