Family Festival Ireland 1/221/2012

It is ON!   I am sure you all got the last message about this event.   We can do a TEA and keep the proceeds for ourselves.

 We are looking for volunteers to provide "tea cakes" (cookies, breads, bars, scones etc.) cups, saucers and tea pots and bodies to man the area, both selling, and possibly waiting, though my experience at the Highland games was that people just took the pot of tea, their cup and a plate of goodies with them to the table.

I will be there all day but will be a story teller an poet in other parts of the event for a good portion of the day.   Joan Kramer and Lianne Cleary-Benninghaus have taken on the managing of the tea itself and we should give them a special thanks and perhaps a medal when this is over.   It will be an unbelievable experience of Irish and Sheboygan County Irish American Culture.    We are trying to bring in all the guns.  I hope that everybody in town will be able to come and put in perhaps an hour or so or if not bring a plate of goodies and skip through the event to see what is involved in it.

Again.

FAMILY FESTIVAL IRELAND
Saturday, January 21, 11:AM to 3:00PM

at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
    608 New York Avenue
    Sheboygan, WI 53081

Celtic Women will shine.

Dia Dhuit

Mary Kunert
920=893-5139
920-912-5345

P. S.   The next, and last,  planning meeting  with JMKAC is January 4,2011 a6 1:30PM at JMKAC if anyone would like to join us.

Irish Family Festival

Family Festival: Ireland
Saturday, January 21, 2012, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

In the mid-1800s, an estimated 600 Irish families settled in Sheboygan County. Today, the Emerald Isle’s influence in our community thrives. This exciting festival will leave you dancing a jig and whistling a tune.

Price          Member Price
$8.00          $6.00

 

 

The above is directly from the JMKAC website.    The Sheboygan County Branch is going to have a role in this festival.   We will be hosting a Tea,  serving tea and treats.  Members will also be demonstrating traditional crafts and doing storytelling during the event.

If you want to be a part of the event, please let us know.

Mary

Annual Christmas Tea

December 4, 2011

The Celtic Tea on Saturday was all that we could have wished for.

First of all, he weather was reasonably kind to us. It did rain some but was not icy or snowy, so there was never a concern about having to postpone.

Those of us who were able, came between 12:00PM and 1:00PM to set up the food table and start the tea and coffee. There was brown bread, peppermint bark, cookies galore and cheese and crackers to graze on. A lovely spread, as usual. Thanks to much to our members for their willingness to come forward with the treats for this event.

We are also so grateful to the Plymouth Historical Society for providing the beautifully decorated museum for the Tea. If you were unable to attend the Tea, try to get there to see it. And thank you again to Beth Dippel, Director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center for the advertising and co-planning each and every year.

This year we our entertainment was the O'Connor's, Bill and Lin, singing and playing beautiful Celtic and Christmas music. They know such a wide selection including old favorites and also tunes that are sometimes only a quiet memory from long ago or maybe new but some how familiar to our hearts. They even brought up our favorite local tenor, Pat O'Reilly, to sing two songs for us. He sang “The Old Man”, his signature song and then a Christmas song to put us in the mood for the season.

So it was again a great success. There were over 50 people in attendance.

This was my first Christmas party and a great one to kick off the season.

Our next event will be the Irish Family Day at JMKAC on January 21^st. I will be forwarding the details on that after a meeting with the Art Center committee on December 16^th.

Dia Dhuit

Mary Kunert