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Another annual Season's Greetings card hits the web!

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Another annual newsletter hits the web! We'll send some hard copies, but here it is online...

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Well, if you are here, you've noticed that this site has fallen into stagnation, so you probably aren't here. But if you are wondering where I/we went, the fact is that we all joined up on Facebook and realized that it is a much better way to share and stay in touch than any static web site will ever be. So all of us have our own Facebook pages that you can find by joining up. Or you could at least check out my photo albums by visiting there. For example, our Maine photos are here. So come on over to Facebook and join us. We are having a great time... This site will remain for a considerable time (since it resides on my personal computer), if for no other purpose, for the links and reference material.

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Erin go Braugh! The tale of St. Patrick is really a revelation for we Scotch-Irish immigrants to the USA, where we see little but green beer and hats. If you can, please take the opportunity to check out Thomas Cahill's enthusiastic tale of Ireland, St. Patrick, and Christianity and the preservation of civilization through the collapse of the Roman Empire. How the Irish Saved Civilization is a somewhat biased but nonetheless eye-opening history of "Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe." The figure above is from the frontispiece of the book, "a page from the Lindisfarne Gospel, completed in 698. Note the languages: in red letters at the top of the page is an inscription in Latin: 'Here begins the Gospel according to Matthew'. Above the latin in small, dark brown letters, a scribe added a translation in early English: "Onginneth Godspell..." The large lettering is a primitive Irish form of the Latin alphabet, while the interlocking animals and other forms have their origins in prehistoric Irish art forms. They also appear to presage some of the work of Maurits C Escher.

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