> > Sorry to hear that there hasn't been much mail lately on the Welsh highway. I > am a brand-new recipient, and look forward to learning more about Welsh and > Wales. Some of my forebears were from Wales -- the Cowles family from > Cardiff, the Nicholas family from Merthry Tydfil, the Evans family, the Lewis > family, and others. My great-great grandfather James W. Coles (Cowles) was a > Welsh immigrant who was killed in a coal mine accident near Scranton, Pa., in > 1880, and his son, David S. P. Cowles, who picked slate in Jeansville, Pa., > at the age of 9, moved with his widowed mother, brothers, and sisters, to > Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1880s. > I have visited Wales myself on a couple occasions, and named my son > Dylan Thomas Kinney in 1976. > > -- Brian W. Kinney, Muncie, Indiana >