Celtic Heritage Festival101 Frog Town Rd.Calaveras Cty fairgrounds

Having returned from Ireland in 1986, where I had been teaching art, I sat there in my small cabin in Soulsbyville listening to Irish Music on the radio. It was St. Patrick’s Day and no one in my community was celebrating that special Irish holiday, not even with green beer or corn beef and cabbage! As I listened to the music on the radio, I looked at a few of my oil paintings that I had brought back from Ireland. It was a sad moment: wanting to celebrate and nowhere to go. That’s when an idea hit me; I thought, maybe a showing of Irish artwork next year with a reception that included food, drink, music and poetry.