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Madison, WI ‘Gets the Welsh Out’
Does anyone else do this?
The Cambrian Heritage Society of Madison, Wisconsin, brought Welsh traditions and culture to the public attention in March and April 2009. In honor of St. David, I arranged to put a display of Welsh items up in my localpublic library. Besides me, Cambrian Heritage Society Board members David and Ellen Lloyd of Friesland and Danny Proud of Madison, also contributed items to the display.
Some of the items displayed, along with brief written explanations, were Welsh books and videos, lovespoons, rugby accessories, slateitems, Welsh beer, water and whiskey bottles, Welsh tea, honey, jewelry featuring leeks and daffodils, acollection of Red Dragons, and toy sheep and bears and a Mini-Cooper, all with theWelsh flag on them. One of the more unusual items was a pigmented beeswax paintingDavid and Ellen and brought back from Wales.
The oak and glass case sits prominently in the front reading area of the library, and with a Draig Goch windsock flying gaily from the ceiling above it, garnered a lot ofattention and interest from the library patrons.
The Society is considering making this an annual event and moving the display to different library branches each year.
hmmmmm....must have been a stout padlock is all I can say
Yes, it was--and the librarians showed considerable restraint--it was there about 6 weeks--the case was locked, of course!
I hope that wasn't a FULL bottle of Penderyn in the dispaly case
There were little signs by a lot of the items explaining what they were and the significance. We put the kid-friendly stuff on the bottom shelves so the kids could see them easier. We didn't do it in 2010, but should think about it for 2011. We have a lot of smaller neighborhood libraries in Madison, so we could put the same things out each year, just in a different library.A suggestion is to somehow label what belongs to whom if you get stuff from different people. I made a list, but one red dragon looks like another if that is the only description! Everything got back to the right person, but it was tough!
We try and do this each year in the Portland Downtown library but we tend to concentrate on Welsh books and authors for the most part. Guess we can learn something from the Cambrian heritage Society andwiden the range of our display