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National Welsh Exhibit Comes to UC

History, Exploration, Immigration of Local Interest

Written By Adam Lawless, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (02/07/2007) -

A popular exhibition that tells the story of Welsh immigration to America has selected Utica College as the next stop on its tour of the United States.

A media preview and reception will be co-hosted by UC and St. David’s Society of Utica on Monday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. in the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library. The exhibit, titled “Keeping Up with the Joneses,” opens in the Gannett Library on Feb. 12 and will run through the beginning of May.

Utica and Central New York are home to one of the largest and oldest Welsh settlements in the U.S. The area is also home to the century-old Welsh language newspaper, Y Drych.

“Keeping Up with the Joneses” is a high-tech, hands-on exhibit that aims to increase awareness of Welsh influence in America and encourage its participants to explore their Welsh roots. The exhibit highlights Welsh history including fabled tales of Prince Madog’s discovery of North America in 1179 and information about early settlers and the ‘settlers’ of today such as Sir Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sir Tom Jones. Viewers of the exhibition are taken through the full story of Welsh immigration from the early settlements, the War of Independence, the American Civil War, and immigration through Ellis Island.

“It is a great privilege to have our exhibition on display at Utica College, in an area once the mecca of Welsh publications in the U.S.,” said Rhodri Morgan, the right honorable A.M., first minister for the Welsh Assembly government.

The ‘Joneses’ exhibit first opened in the main Immigration Hall of Ellis Island Museum of Immigration on June 26, 2006. It was then relocated to the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio on Sept. 9, 2006 where it remained until the end of the year. Utica College is third stop on the exhibit’s national tour.

The Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library at Utica College houses several specialized collections, including the Harry F. Jackson Welsh collection, the largest collection of 19th and early 20th century language imprints of Central New York.

About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 32 undergraduate majors, 24 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.
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