“On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other green with leaves.” – Peredur, from the Welsh Celtic Mabinogion (12th century) I love Celtic literature and how my ancestors portrayed everything with a stark ambiguity. This idea of a greening tree cast […]
September, 2020
Thomas Jefferson – My Distant Relative
My Father a few years back was researching our family history and had decided to share something interesting with me. I had known that my father’s European ancestors had come from Wales in the 18th century. They had then gone west to Tennessee to finally settle in Texas early in the 19th century when Texas […]