October 9, 2014

I hope you all DID mark your calendars for Sunday October 26 from 4PM to 7PM for the 5th annual Samhain Harvest Dinner of the Sheboygan County branch of Celtic Women International.  We are set.   The First Congregational Church of Christ,1405 State Rd 67 in Plymouth are willing to open their doors to us.   I will go tomorrow to leave the application and the space rental.   We are so grateful that they will do this.  

SAMHAIN

So,  Sunday 10/26 at 4PMish, arrive.   Bring yourself, friends, significant others and a dish to pass.   It is lovely if it relates to the harvest but not essential.   I will, as always, bring colcannon.  Bring your own table service and a setting for your ancestors if you choose.   They are also invited to this feast as it coincides with the entry into the dark season of the year.    Halloween comes from the feast of Samhain which originates in Ireland.    It is harvest time, time to bring the livestock in from the hills.   It is said that it is on this night (Actually Oct 31) the ancestors come back to visit their homes and those they love.  Thus the All Souls Day and All Saints Day in modern Christianity.  We honor those who have gone ahead.

LITERARY EXCHANGE

Joan Kramer will be leading our bi annual Literary Exchange is November 15th at 1PM. - Place to be announced.  We had selected Morgan Llywelyn's 1916.   Even if you have not had a chance to read the book, please come.   Those of us who just got back from IBAM (Irish Books Art Music) have so much to share and can recommend SO many authors that we had the honor to meet there and suggestions for discussion.   (I lent my 1916 to someone?  I can't remember who.) 

CHRISTMAS TEA

Our final meeting for 2014 will be our annual Irish Christmas Tea.   Details on this will also follow, but please mark your calendar for Saturday December 6th from 1PM to 4PM.  A lovely musical warm way to start the Christmas season.   I promise to bring fresh Irish Brown Bread baked that morning with real butter to spread on it. 

That is our schedule for the year.   Please participate in whatever you can.   We love to see your face as the Irish say.

Call with any suggestions or questions.

Dia Dhuit

Mary Kunert

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Michael Kelly " In a land where there are no musicians; in a land where there are no storytellers; teachers and poets; in a land where there are no men and women of vision and leadership; in a land where there are no legends, saints, and champions; in a land where there are no dreamers, the people will most certainly perish."