This fledgling robin hatched in our entranceway and is ready to fly.

New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492

New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492 is a work of historical fiction, invented documents from an imaginary monastic site in southwestern Wales, supplemented by an essay on Guto'r Glyn, a 15th-century Welsh poet.

To read a chapter from New House, click Gwenllian

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Newly assembled  is the Complete Edition of New HouseThis has all the selections included in New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492, as well as two line drawings by Urban Price; an Old Welsh riddle; the 12th-century "Testing of Cadog"; the 19th-century "Life of Elias"; and the short story, "Capel Ty Newydd."  

A CD recording of New House is available.  This includes readings from the book by Gerald Godwin, Kathleen Godwin, and Rebecca Schmitt, together with Welsh folk songs performed by singers led by Dr. William L. Nash III.  The recordings were engineered by David Hodorovic at Pyramid Recording Studio in Avoca, PA.  The CD's are manufactured by Disc Makers and marketed by CD Baby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/rmloomis 

Anthracite Lives:  Essays and Interviews

People of the anthraciate region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, including Charles Miner, Edward Eugene Loomis, Edward Griffith, Roy Morgan, and Teresa Keeley.
To help restore an anthracite monument, join the Huber Breaker Preservation Society (membership $10 a year), 101 South Main Street, Ashley, PA 18706. Membership form online at
 www.huberbreaker.org

To read a passage from Anthracite Lives, click Wanamie

Headed for publication:

White Mountain:  Education of a Soul

A manifesto for American survival after 9/11.  St. Paul is our model, thrown to the ground & evangelized by Jesus Christ in the Arabian desert.

To read a note on a seventh-century monk of Northumberland, click Cuthbert

Cader Idris

A poem on climbing the mountain Cader Idris in Merionethshire, Wales.
To see photographs of Cader Idris, click
Cader Idris

St. John Neumann Walks Through Miners Mills

St. John Neumann (1811-60) was born in Bohemia and educated at Prague University.  He sailed to Manhattan in 1836 to become a missionary in North America.  He became a priest & Redemptorist and was consecrated bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. 



 

 

Recommended Web Sites (see more at Resources):

www.vatican.va/holyfather/index.htm

www.whitehouse.gov

www.ignatius.com

www.michellemalkin.com

www.anncoulter.com

Larry Behr is the originator and executive director of an effort to build a Marian shrine on the Buffalo shore:  http://www.archoftriumph.org
Mother Angelica, born in Canton, Ohio, has broadcast to the world for 25 years:  www.ewtn.com
For Spain in translation, Germany alive, & American memoirs, read my brother Ed, poet & infantryman.
Our son Mario and his wife Donna host a website that honors Mother Teresa and good love:  www.adropofclearwater.com
For "irresistibly intellectual" Catholic commentary:   http://thomistic.blogspot.com/
In defense of American enterprise:  www.american.com

Jerry Williams of Carbondale, PA, president of the Lackawanna St. David's Society, promotes a positive appreciation of Northeastern Pennsylvania and recognition of Welsh pioneers in industry, art, and letters.  Visit his website, www.welshnepa.org

Kathleen Godwin & Friends have launched ArtsYouniverse on North Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.  My books & recordings are available at their bookstore.  On the web:  www.artsyouniverse.com