Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!! (Happy St. David's Day!!) to the Welsh amongst us

[Siwsan]

Not sure if the linking issue is resolved, so I'll just leave this quote from St. David that seem so appropriate, right now:

"Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do."

[cyclonefence]

1. I know a St. David's Day joke

Where was the Welshman on St. David's Day? Under the table, having a leek.

Leeks being a symbol of SDD, like shamrocks for St. Patrick.

[Siwsan]

2. HA HA!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. And to you! My family is in the Cwm Avon area. You?

[Siwsan]

4. Coal miners from the Swansea area

They came to Maryland and worked in the mines there, too. My great grandfather died of 'miners dropsy'. My grandfather was trapped in a mine collapse, survived, and then packed up the family for a move to Flint, MI, to work in the auto factories (Buick).

My dad's cousin did a family tree, way back before services like Ancestry.com. He discovered the family was pretty affluent (titled), at one time, and there is an authenticated family crest. Not sure what happened that they went from that to a family of coal miners and circus acrobats. Dad's cousin is long dead so I'm not sure if the documents are still packed away, somewhere. I could start the whole process over, again, but I'm not sure I want to get sucked down into that financial rabbit hole.

As soon as I can make the trip, I'm going back to Frostburg, MD, to the Welsh Baptist Church, where my grandparents attended. There might be some good starter documentation in their archives. They did tell me I'm welcomed to do so, but the older information is all in Welsh, and nobody has taken the time to translate it. I told them all I need are the words for 'born' 'married' 'baptised' and 'died'.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Wow! Yeah, ours were well to do, and came over on the same ship as Carnegie. He asked my

gggrandfather to join him in steel, but my family already had bought huge swathes of land in the Midwest for tin mining. Unfortunately, we had a black sheep uncle who put the land up against his gambling debts, and the whole mess remained unresolved in court until after 100 years the state took the land, presumably to create a park.

[whistler162]

6. Well that was a rarebit of Welsh!

[Siwsan]

7. Oh great. I just brushed my teeth, and now I'm hungry!!!

[whistler162]

10. Gomer liked it......

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xmhen

[Aristus]

8. "I'll knock his leek about his pate upon St. Davy's Day!"

William Shakespeare knew the importance of St., David's Day to the Welsh.

[geardaddy]

9. Diolch!