Poyntys Kernowek (Darnau I Gernyw [W]) – Cornish Bits

from our Cornish friendsin Southwestern Wisconsinwhich they borrowed from

their Cornish friends in South Australia

The Pasty (a recipe poem)Crimp on the side do ‘ee?

Or crimp on the top?Put in the parsley, or maybe not.

Add the tatties and then the swede?“ow much pepper do ‘ee really need?

Put in carrots and some nice green peas?NOO! Not Never! Please, please, please!Some use margarine and some use lard.Turns out the same tho’ – dunna Pard?

But in the end tis all in the taste‘Cos it all goes down

to the same bleddy place.

Cymru ym mhobman! - Wales Everywherethanks to Robert Llewellyn Tyler

Ever wonder what can be known about local Welsh settlements and their contributions to our fair land? Check out Identity, Culture Maintenance and Social Mobility: The Welsh in Emporia, Lyon County, 1870-1930., Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer 2015), 65-78, and. Occupational Change, Culture Maintenance and Social Status: The Welsh in a Missouri Coal Town, 1870-1930,” Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (October 2014), 18-40.

Ein ffrindiau yng Nghernyw –Our Cornish Friends

by Keith Moorhead

Question –

Have you ever wondered where to give those rare books and finds of Welsh and Cornish heritage you have collected over the years?

If SDWS/KC could establish a place to make resources available to others studying Welsh and Cornish heritage, would you see yourself donating your books, etc, to such a place?

We would like to explore a possible local library that could create a British Celtic Section for just such a purpose, that would be accessible to the general public

Please send you thoughts to frevanash@gmail.com.

Sut ydych yn ei ddweud? –How Do You Say It?

thanks to Eleth Ridenour

The May SDWS/KC gathering welcomed spokespersons from the 3 sports popular in Wales – soccer, rugby, and cricket.. Here are some phrases to help you enjoy watching games:sports - chwaraeon win - ennillSoccer - pel droed run - rhedeg Rugby - rygbi practice - ymarfer Cricket - criced ball - pel Hockey - hoci side - ochr pass - pasio coach - hyfforddwr field – cae full -time - amser lawn score - sgor loose - colli cup - cwpan congratulations - llongyfarchiadau well-played - chwarae da iawn

Bywyd Cymreig - Welsh Life

The St. David’s Welsh Society of Greater Kansas City June, 2017

The St. David’s Welsh Society brings together the various people of the Welsh “village”, of the greater Kansas City area and its environs, and their Cornish neighbors, to celebrate the Celtic heritage and spirit.

Membership InformationAnnual Dues date - March

Individual - $10 Family - $15 Contributing - $25Send dues to SDWS

15332 W. 82nd Street, Lenexa, Kansas 66219Contact

Evan Ash (913) 768-7006Larry Griffiths (913) 378-6547

http://www.kcwelsh.com

SDWS BoardEvan Ash, President

Carolyn Adkins, Vice PresidentBob Adkins, Vice PresidentLarry Griffiths, Treasurer/

Doug Wyatt, SecretaryBill Ames, Judith Brougham, Elaine James,

Ann McFerrin, Katherine Spencer, Sue Walston

Your SDWS Board welcomes your ideas for programs we can offer to nourish your Welsh heritage. We also welcome Cornish program ideas to help us celebrate our Cornish neighbors. Please send your ideas to

Digwyddiadau i ddod - Upcoming Events

Friday, August 18-Sunday, August 20, 2017 Swope Park, Meyer Blvd. and Swope Parkway - ETHNIC ENRICHMENT FESTIVAL 2017.

Saturday, November 4, 2017, Shawnee Civic Center 13817 Johnson Dr.., Shawnee Mission, KS - Annual British Faire & Tea – SDWS presenting on “The Welsh in Heartland”.

More news on upcoming SDWS/KC events in August Bywyd Cymreig…

“Their Finest”from our friends of the

Welsh Society of Western New England

A movie out now, is titled “Their Finest.” It is set in London during WW2 and recounts a young screenwriter, making a film for the UK and USA markets about heroines and heroes during Dunkirk.

The lead actress (Gemma Atherton) plays Catrin Pugh from South Wales and some of the

Part 1 of the Moorhead Family Journey

My name is Keith Moorshead and I am of Cornish ancestry (my children say that’s why I’m so “corny”). The Moorshead name is rather unique, it is thought there are less than 500 of us in the world today even with the various spellings of Moorshead, Morshead, Moreshead. Even more unique is there is documented evidence of how the Moorshead name originated. Those of you familiar with the English Moors know it is a barren wasteland in Devon with a famous prison in the middle of it. On the south edge of Dartmoor is a farm named Moorshead, (the name simply meant it was at the head of the moor), which is where our family name originated. For over 30 years brothers Robin and Halvor Moorshead, and Lyn Collins, a distant cousin have researched the Moorshead name in the U.K. Quite by chance one day while thumbing through a diary written in the 1590’s by Robert Fursse there appeared the name Moorshead. After getting the diary transcribed into readable English, it was discovered that Robert Fursse owned Moorshead Farm and in the diary listed ownership of the farm’s lands by providing a genealogy of the Moorshead Farm owners going back 13 generations.The important point is in about 1350 when the Fursse Diary says the farm’s owner was one Rafe le Bonde who “had issue as I suppose, was one William, which was called William le Moorshead, for as I have said before, the

Y gegin Gymreig - The Welsh Kitchen

Our friends at Brit’s in Lawrence are now offering Welsh Cakes made by Helen Coates at Copper Kettle Bakery. Here is her story:

Moorshead Manor House 1593custom and use of old times to call men after the names of their mansion houses, but especially those that then were freeholders.” Translated this says that Rafe le Bonde elected to give his son the last name of his farm, (Moorshead), instead of his family name, (le Bonde), since it was a custom of old. So the fact that this states when and how the Moorshead name originated is a real gem in our family history.

SDWS/KC yn dod i Facebook! -SDWS/KC is Coming to Facebook!

In order to get the word out about SDWS/KC, we are now on Facebook. Check us out at our Facebook page at Sdwskc. A big Diolch … thanks… to SDWS/KC Secretary Doug Wyatt for getting us ready to reach out in this way…

An Englishman travelling on a very dark night in the Welsh mountains heard a cry for help from someone who had fallen into a ravine near the road. "Who is it?" he replied cautiously, fearing a trap. "Dafydd ap Gwilym ap Rhys AP Gruffydd ap Ifan ap Jenkyn", came the response. "Well", rejoined the Englishman, "if there's half a dozen of you down there you can jolly well pull one another out."

Gwên Cymraeg – A Welsh Smile

Warren Gatland and Stuart Lancaster are both

frevanash@gmail.com.Darnau Cymraeg - Welsh Bits

borrowed from: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/11685

shared by Marilyn Stephenson

We know very little about actual ancient Druids. They didn’t leave written texts behind, so all we have to go on in terms of contemporary sources are Roman and they are uniformly disparaging. Julius Caesar describes the Druids in his Gallic Wars thus: “The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites; and on that account they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases, and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices; because they think that unless the life of a man be offered for the life of a man, the mind of the immortal gods can not be rendered propitious, and they have sacrifices of that kind ordained for national purposes. Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames. They consider that the oblation of such as have been taken in theft, or in robbery, or any other offense, is more acceptable to the immortal gods; but when a supply of that class is wanting, they have recourse to the oblation of even the innocent.“ The Roman sources all indicate that the Druids performed human sacrifices. Again, we have little to no evidence of this, and even if it were true that the invading Romans saw Druidic ritual human sacrifice, they could have been performed in characterization as an aspersion cast by ancient enemies.

(part 2 in August Bywyd Cymreig)Diwrnod mewn Hanes Cymru –

coastal scenes are filmed in South Wales.

Heddiw Cymru – Wales Todayfrom walesonline.co.uk

Two giant eggs have appeared in a nest at Caerphilly Castle overnight - and they don't look Easter-related! The dragon eggs join dragons Dewi and Dwynwen at the castle. Dewi first appeared on St David's Day last year and was joined by Dwynwen a year later. The eggs are part of the next stage of Cadw's Live the Legends campaign, which aims to bring Wales' dramatic history and tales to life during Visit Wales’s 2017 Year of Legends. Found near mum-to-be Dwynwen, the nest has appeared just in time for the castle’s busy Easter period, which last year saw more than 90,000 visitors during March. Visitors to Caerphilly Castle will have the chance to see Dewi, Dwynwen and the eggs through April and May 2017. According to Cadw the gestation period of dragon eggs is unknown, so visitors to the Castle are asked to remain alert and to inform custodians of any egg movements and/or baby dragon sightings.

News flash!!!Baby dragons were seen in the nest on May 26th!left undisturbed, though builders have installed

“I grew up in South Wales, where early morning weekends were spent in the kitchen. My mum Eileen and grandmother Irene were kneading dough for bread and warming the griddle for our morning Welsh Cakes. I loved to help them cut the circles of dough. Even today, the smell of allspice and cinnamon takes me back to the warmth of that kitchen filled with love. My mother used to take me to a café in our village that served tea, Welsh Cakes, and sweet breads. They filled every teapot with boiling water straight out of their giant kettle. I told my mum as a child: “One day, I am going to open a bakery and call it the Copper Kettle.” We always dreamed we would do it together but living 3,000 miles away from each other made it impossible. My mum passed away in June of 2013 and shortly thereafter I was laid off, I then found myself craving the taste of Welsh Cakes. I began griddling them every morning for my sons, Miles and Noah. Then I began griddling them for neighbors and friends. As the requests grew, I realized that I had found my calling. I love to share the tastes of my childhood with friends in my new home in Massachusetts. In the fall of 2013, I made it official, opening Copper Kettle Bakery... I hope you enjoy our Ready Made Welsh Cakes and Welsh Cake Mixes as much as I have enjoyed bringing them to you… Helen

Check her foods out at http://copperkettlebakery.com/.Chwaraeon yng Nghymru –

Sports in Walesfrom bbc.com/news/uk-wales

thanks to Carolyn Adkins

A London Marathon runner who helped a competitor finish said he was just lending a hand to a "guy in need". Crowds - including

killed when a lightning bolt hits the Millennium Stadium. In heaven, they are greeted by God and Lancaster is taken to his new home, a lovely English country cottage with statues of English rugby greats and angels singing Jerusalem and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. He was delighted until he suddenly heard some even more beautiful singing coming from the top of the hill. He listened closer and could hear Bread of Heaven and Hen Wlad fy Nhadau. He looked up to see a great palace with statues of Barry John and Gareth Edwards and a party in the garden had Brains SA flowing freely as the crowd watched Scott Gibbs scoring his try against England in 1999. Lancaster went to the Lord and said: “I don’t want to appear ungrateful - but why does Warren get the huge mansion?” God said: “You’ve got it all wrong! That’s not Warren’s place - it’s mine.”

Welsh Travel Resource

Fly 2 Wales provides and promotes holiday information to overseas and international visitors. They have a new web site at www.fly2wales.co.uk. And they now have a section on Welsh societies overseas to share with our followers, which they hope will bring more attention to the Welsh links and culture overseas and more importantly to each specific society where ever we are in the world. The St. David Welsh Society is now listed on their web site.we can do this - we'll do it together, we'll cross the line together," he added. Mr Rees said he was not worried about his race time, he just wanted to ensure they both finished the event - and still under three hours - "if we could just get

A Day in Historyborrowed from bbc.com/news/uk

The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence. Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt containing 30 lead coffins. Site manager Karl Patten said: "We discovered numerous coffins - and one of them had a gold crown on top of it". The remains date back to the 1660s. Mr Patten’s team were exposing the ground, lifting the flagstones in the church, when they uncovered an entry to what looked like a tomb.They used a mobile phone camera on the end of a stick to search the void. Garden Museum Director Christopher Woodward said he received a call from the builders and immediately assumed something had gone wrong with the project. "But wow, it was the crown - it's the mitre of an archbishop, glowing in the dark," he said.

The red and gold mitre was resting on top of one of the coffins - which were stacked on top of each other in a brick-lined vault. The coffins have been

a glass panel in the chancel floor above them for visitors to catch a glimpse. One of the coffins is Richard Bancroft who was the chief overseer of the publication of a new English translation of the Bible - the King James Bible. St Mary-at-Lambeth's records have since revealed that a further four archbishops were probably buried in the vault. Beyond that, Mr Woodward said: "We still don't know who else is down there". However, further clues may lie in the history of the church. One of the most sacred and precious sites in London, St Mary's was built in the 11th Century along London's Embankment, Mr Woodward said: "This church had two lives: it was the parish church of Lambeth, this little village by the river…but it was also a kind of annex to Lambeth Palace itself. And over the centuries a significant number of the archbishops' families and archbishops themselves chose to worship here, and chose to be buried here."

Mrs Hopkins ordered a shoulder of Welsh lamb from her butcher, Mr Davies. She suspected that the meat she had been given was not the genuine article. 'Are you certain this is real Welsh lamb?' Mrs Hopkins demanded, angrily. 'Ah, well, Mrs Hopkins,' confessed Mr Davies, the butcher. 'Look you, that lamb was actually born in New Zealand but I can assure you that it had Welsh parents.'

Bodmin became the major centre for his veneration when his relics were moved there in the later ninth century. Bodmin monastery became one of the wealthiest Cornish

Prince William - cheered on Matthew Rees as he stopped 300 metres from the end to help David Wyeth. Swansea Harriers runner Mr Rees told the Chorlton Runners athlete: "We'll cross the line together." Race officials tweeted: "You've just encompassed everything that's so special about the #London Marathon." Mr Rees said: "I came round the final corner and I saw a runner struggling, his legs were collapsing beneath him. Every time he tried to get up, he kept on falling back to the ground. "I went over to him and said was urging him to move on you know please don't sacrifice your race for me. But he stuck with me and I think a volunteer also joined me on the other side. "I got up, they helped me up, and I just tried to keep moving." But Swansea Harrier Mr Rees said it was "the same thing anyone else would have done". "I just helped a guy out when he was in need. I'm glad he got to the line, and I'm glad he is okay," he added. "That spirit, it encompasses what running is about and what the marathon is about."'come on, you can do this' and tried to gee him up. "But every time he tried to get up, I realised he wasn't going to make it." So instead of continuing with his own run, Mr. Rees helped his fellow racer to his feet and walked with him to the finish. "I said 'come on

to the line," he added. "So I put his arm around mine and we walked it to the line. The crowd were incredible, they were cheering us on."

The pair finished in 2hr 52min 26 sec - with Mr Rees losing scores of places in the race running order to come 986 in the men's overall. Runner Mr Wyeth said: "For someone just to stop their own race to help you, that's such a

decent thing that he did. ."I was urging him to move on you know please don't sacrifice your race for me. But he stuck with me and I think a volunteer also joined me on the other side. "I got up, they helped me up, and I just tried to keep moving." But Swansea Harrier Mr Rees said it was "the same thing anyone else would have done". "I just helped a guy out when he was in need. I'm glad he got to the line, and I'm glad he is okay," he added. "That spirit, it encompasses what running is about and what the marathon is about."

Two men, Cadwaladr and Dewi shared an old two-roomed farmhouse somewhere west of Llanfarian. Cadwaladr grumbled to a visitor, 'Dewi makes life unbearable at times. He keeps sheep and goats in the bedroom and it smells terrible.' 'Why don't you open the window?' came the reply. 'What, and let all my pigeons escape?'”

Santes Cadw Ni! - Saints Preserve Us!

Celtic saints commemorated in June and July are fewer but among them is one with both Welsh and Cornish importance, his feast day on June 4 th. Saint Pedroc, Petroc, or Petrock (died c. 564) was a Welsh prince and Christian saint. Born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Cornwall and Devon, where he is associated with a monastery at Padstow, which is named after him (Pedroc-stowe, or 'Petrock's Place”).

foundations by the eleventh century. In Wales his name is commemorated at St Petroc near Pembroke, Ferwig near Cardigan, and Llanbedrog on the Llŷn peninsula. In Devon ancient dedications total a probable seventeen, mostly coastal and including one within the old Roman walls of Exeter as well as the villages of Petrockstowe and Newton St Petroc. He also became a popular saint in Brittany by the end of the tenth century. The earliest Life of Petroc states that he was the son of a Welsh king Glywys king, of Glywysing and Petroc as a brother of St. Gwynllyw, and uncle of St. Cadoc, credited with the establishment of many churches in Cornwall, Brittany, Dyfed (far southwest Wales) and Scotland. . He studied in Ireland. For his further improvement he made a pilgrimage to Rome, and returning to Cornwall, shut himself up in a monastery of which he founded, now Padstow, which stands at the mouth of the river Camel on the North Cornish Coast. All accounts indicate that Petroc retired from Padstow to Bodmin, and there founded a second monastery and a great church which King Athelstan afterwards favoured with great benefactions and privileges. Petroc founded churches in many parts of Britain, Wales and Brittany. He is said to have converted Constantine of Cornwall to Christianity by saving a deer Constantine was hunting. After thirty years, legend says that he went on the pilgrimage to Rome by way of Brittany.

Beirdd Cymreig - Welsh Poets Hospital in Edinburgh for (I didn't go to seminary until 1970). The actual While the majority of the displays were local

notes from Judith Brougham, et al

A recent symphony and chorus offering at the Herlzberg Hall of Kaufmann Center for the Performing Art in Kansas City in early May featured renditions of the poetry of Wilfred Owen. The production was entitled “War Requiem”, based on the Roman Catholic Mass. composed by Benjamin Britten in 1961-62, the “War Requiem” was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid. The traditional Latin texts are interspersed, with settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, written in World War I. Owen was born on 1893 on the Welsh border near Oswestry in Shropshire. Owen discovered his poetic vocation in about 1904 during a holiday spent in Cheshire. He was raised as an Anglican of the evangelical type, and in his youth was a devout believer, in part due to his strong relationship with his mother, which lasted throughout his life. His early influences included the Bible and the "big six" of romantic poetry, particularly John Keats.

His war poetry, originally written in Welsh, is probably the best known of all the war poets.

His words are known in classrooms throughout the UK, is on the horrors

of trenches and gas warfare, stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse

written by earlier war poets. Some of it resulted from a therapeutic recommendation while he was being treated for neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War

St. David’s May 20th Gathering –Popular Sports in Wales

The SDWS/KC gathering on Saturday, May

treatment. While on the Front, he had fallen into a shell hole and suffered a concussion; he was blown up by a trench mortar and spent several days unconscious on an embankment lying amongst the remains of

one of his fellow officers. After treatment he returned to lead men on the war front. Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918, exactly one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice which ended the war, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant the day after his death. His mother received the telegram informing her of his death on Armistice Day, as the church bells were ringing out in celebration.

A personal footnote on this storyfrom SDWS/KC member Fr. Larry Lewis:

Let me tell you about my experience with the War Requiem. I sang tenor in the St. Louis Civic Chorus when the Symphony performed this piece in Powell Hall in October 1967. The conductor was Eleazer de Carvalho… The guy who auditioned me for the chorus had me sight-read some pretty conventional church music of the sort I'd sung in Episcopal church choirs. When I'd aced that, he asked me to sing what he'd just played on the piano starting with a whole tone scale. Not so easy! I got accepted anyhow, and found time to learn the Britten music and go to the chorus rehearsals while still teaching full time in a public high school.

(Fr. Lewis’ account continues on other side)

performance was one of the highlights of my life to date, and I just turned 85 a week ago.

An event in my life that academic year was the unexpected death of my father in Osceola on Easter Day 1968, April 14. Sometime in the next two years, while Ruth and I were still living in St. Louis, one Sunday afternoon I heardthe Britten War Requiem on the radio. I was drowned in the tears that hadn't flowed when he died. He'd served in the U.S. Navy from August 1917 to the summer of 1919. So even while not in the trenches, to me he was part of thatwar. Not only the music, but also the Wilfred Owen poems really got to me.

Brit Gala Festival, 2017

On Saturday, April 29th, the SDWS participated in the British Gala at the Ararat Shrine Temple in Kansas City, Missouri. Although it was raining 'cats and dogs' - in Wales that is hen wragedd a ffyn (old ladies and sticks) and cyllyll a ffyre (knives and forks) - we had a very good showing.

vendors selling British products, we held true to our calling: to promote the appreciation of the Welsh cultural heritage among persons of Welsh ancestry and others. We had lively discussions on our culture, history, language - Cymraeg, and our Welsh and British ancestral influences on our current lives. Individuals enjoyed putting a 'map pin' on a large map of Wales indicating the origins of their Welsh ancestors! Research historian and author Toby Giese certainly caught the attention of many as he detailed his photo of the 24th Regiment South Wales Borderers at the Zulu War in South Africa in 1879. It was very personally satisfying to be part of this effort to share our common bond with friends and long lost cousins from the 'old country'!

Thanks to Larry Griffiths fandtoby Geise for our presence at the 2017 Brit Gala, A big Diolch yn fawr to Larry!

20th, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Shawnee welcomed guest presenters on sports that are popular in Wales. The speakers helped us become better spectators of the sports so we could add this aspect of our Welsh heritage to our enjoyment.

A tea followed and good fellowship was shared.. Thanks to all who brought treats to share. Also, thanks to Judith Brougham, who send in these resources to help enhance our understanding of these games, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cricket , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket , andhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football.

Our Evan Ash pinch hitted for Alan Jones, of Challenger Sports, to bring us basics of Soccer.

Dr. Nikhil Mahajan, of the Cricket Premier League of Kansas City, gave us a detailed description of Cricket.

Curt Straub, of the Kansas City Rugby Football Club, share the spirit of Rugby and brought a film to give us an introduction to the game.