[lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM/Macgillonies of Strone

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:53:50 +0100

Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 7:55:03 PM, Steven G. Cameron wrote:


SGC> **His great, great grandfather, while escaping from the Pale and the
SGC> latest spate of pogroms, had only enough funds to travel (west) as far
SGC> as GB, settling for a time in Wales -- taking on menial labor to afford
SGC> the final leg of his intended journey to NYC. It seems to have taken him
SGC> about 13 months to save up enough.  My father wanted to commemorate this
SGC> stay (we also learned that he was treated well there, enjoyed Wales

clearly a discerning man.


SGC> said he didn't want to relabel all of his   possessions.  Too
SGC> young/uneducated to understand that a Scots  name wasn't the same
SGC> as a SGC> Welsh one,

yes well... you don't have to be young and uneducated to fail to
understand that; there's a recent expensive EU book whose cover has
map of Europe with a hole where Wales should be.


-- 
 Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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