Misinformed information regarding Caoimhe McNeil and the 5th provence of Ireland~ BUTTE March 21, 2008
Posted by Mimi » add a commentHello Mister Stockman~Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you and your wife.I read your article and then I went and did a little research myself.As I do business with Caoimhe on a regular basis and she manages my bandI thought it would be best to actually call someone who I did not know in Butteand get their take on the situation.It turns out that MOST people from Butte with any kind of Irish heritagespeak with a recognizable Irish brough, including one of the headCatholic priests who was born in Butte and spent his life there.He speaks with an heavy Irish accent.The man whom I spoke with (Glenn) runs a local inn there in the city andI said ‘isn’t it strange that people there speak with an accent even thoughthey were not born in Ireland’and his reply was to the effect of , yes, isn’t it beautiful.If you ask people from Ireland where Caoimhe’s accent is from, they will tellyou it is probably from Butte because it is the American home for mostpeople coming over from Ireland and it is a recognized accent.
http://www.butteamerica.com/birish.htmhttp://www.butteamerica.com/
I would hope you just take a quick look and give a phone call to someof the people who live there. They do consider themselves tobe from Ireland and their families are considered to be from Ireland, evenif they were born in Butte.This is the first I have ever heard of a city claiming that they area provence of another country while being a part of the states,but there is a first time for everything. It has opened myeyes to the possibility that there are other people on this planetwho do not share my beliefs or my ideas, but that their realityis just as valid as mine (well, more so, because they have an entirecities worth of people sharing their idea and belief)~I spoke with my mom, she pointed out that mostpeople who are of Cajun decent, (which is hundreds of yearsfrom their French ancestors) still speak with a thickaccent (and some barely speak English at all).As well as the Amish who speak with a think Germanic/Swissaccent but have been in this country for many generations.
In the end, she is a great friend and she knows more aboutme than most people. I trust her and I love her. Though I have onlyknown her for a few years, in that time if shehas ever caused anyone harm and they let her know, she is the first to call and make amends and find out how tomake the situation right.She has brought many people from the British Islestogether on a large scale here in town andher efforts are helping children in Ireland to have a saferefuge for a weekend and learn life skills to take back to their sometimes troubled homes in the city.Home is where your heart is and where your friends are.Many Blessings to you beautiful man, may good friends surround you always and may they stick up for you wheneverneeded. Have a very groovy St. Patty’s Day~Blessings~ Mimi (Miriam) Burns (Tyler)
Easter/Eostre Son/Sun Christmas priests and pagans March 21, 2008
Posted by Mimi » add a commentA little back ground on the festivals of Spring/Winter and the old religions coming together~I think the first time I had Christian shell shock was 16 sitting on a hill with my boyfriend Mike he alerted me that Jesus was not white with long blonde hair (something I was hoping for I suppose, I always did like rock stars and at the time I think David Lee Roth was at the top of my list)- that he (Jesus, not David) would have looked like a man from the middle eastern region~ my second shock came shortly after to learn that he was not born on Dec 24th, and that Santa Claus had nothing to do with the life of Jesus but more to do with the Winter equinox (well, Santa did not, but gifts, trees, mistletoe and lights did)http://www. gnmagazine. org/issues/gn43/bornchristmas. htmLastly~ I found out Easter (the chocolate and bunnies) had nothing to do with Jesus, more to do with Eostre, the Spring equinox, the re-birth of life and thank all things beautiful~ fertility!http://englishheathenism. homestead. com/eostre. htmlSo to some of my favorite people on this planet, the Catholic Priests and the Pagans and the people who love all the groovy bits in-between ~ Here is to Jesus dying on the cross and rising again, eating funky bunny rabbits and chocolate eggs, the feminine and masculine, babies, birth and the welcoming of the SUN and the SON~ Happy Eostre/Easter!
Warbird Brewery Benefit for Eagle Creek February 13, 2008
Posted by Mimi » add a commentFort Wayne near the airport~
