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.Travels in an Old Tongue

by: Pamela Petro

June 01, 1998
As a longtime learner of Irish, I can relate to Pamela Petro's predicament. She wished to better her basic Welsh, picked up in a two-month intensive course at the U of Wales, Lampeter, but also needed to avoid the trap of falling back on English when practicing her Welsh in Wales itself! With her roommate, she decides to travel five months around wherever Welsh expats and learners lurked in other countries, assuming that if she went to Norway or Singapore or Argentina, that the lack of English from her co-respondents would force them both into Welsh. This only worked best in her final destination, (providing the strongest part of her narrative, and by far the most assuredly conveyed) the remnant of the Patagonian Welsh pioneering community. ... Read More:
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.The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story

by: Pamela Petro

October 01, 2006
As a longtime learner of Irish, I can relate to Pamela Petro's predicament. She wished to better her basic Welsh, picked up in a two-month intensive course at the U of Wales, Lampeter, but also needed to avoid the trap of falling back on English when practicing her Welsh in Wales itself! With her roommate, she decides to travel five months around wherever Welsh expats and learners lurked in other countries, assuming that if she went to Norway or Singapore or Argentina, that the lack of English from her co-respondents would force them both into Welsh. This only worked best in her final destination, (providing the strongest part of her narrative, and by far the most assuredly conveyed) the remnant of the Patagonian Welsh pioneering community. ... Read More:
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.Sitting Up With the Dead - A Storied Journey Through the American South

by: Pamela Petro

2001
As a longtime learner of Irish, I can relate to Pamela Petro's predicament. She wished to better her basic Welsh, picked up in a two-month intensive course at the U of Wales, Lampeter, but also needed to avoid the trap of falling back on English when practicing her Welsh in Wales itself! With her roommate, she decides to travel five months around wherever Welsh expats and learners lurked in other countries, assuming that if she went to Norway or Singapore or Argentina, that the lack of English from her co-respondents would force them both into Welsh. This only worked best in her final destination, (providing the strongest part of her narrative, and by far the most assuredly conveyed) the remnant of the Patagonian Welsh pioneering community. ... Read More:
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.Sitting Up With the Dead - A Storied Journey Through the American South

by: Pamela Petro

2001
As a longtime learner of Irish, I can relate to Pamela Petro's predicament. She wished to better her basic Welsh, picked up in a two-month intensive course at the U of Wales, Lampeter, but also needed to avoid the trap of falling back on English when practicing her Welsh in Wales itself! With her roommate, she decides to travel five months around wherever Welsh expats and learners lurked in other countries, assuming that if she went to Norway or Singapore or Argentina, that the lack of English from her co-respondents would force them both into Welsh. This only worked best in her final destination, (providing the strongest part of her narrative, and by far the most assuredly conveyed) the remnant of the Patagonian Welsh pioneering community. ... Read More:
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.SLOW BREATH OF STONE

by: PAMELA PETRO

2006
As a longtime learner of Irish, I can relate to Pamela Petro's predicament. She wished to better her basic Welsh, picked up in a two-month intensive course at the U of Wales, Lampeter, but also needed to avoid the trap of falling back on English when practicing her Welsh in Wales itself! With her roommate, she decides to travel five months around wherever Welsh expats and learners lurked in other countries, assuming that if she went to Norway or Singapore or Argentina, that the lack of English from her co-respondents would force them both into Welsh. This only worked best in her final destination, (providing the strongest part of her narrative, and by far the most assuredly conveyed) the remnant of the Patagonian Welsh pioneering community. ... Read More:
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.Sitting Up with the Dead: A Storied Journey Through the American South

by: Pamela Petro

May 07, 2002
I thought this book would be full of fascinating stories from the Appalachian mountain people, boy was I disappointed. What it turned out to be is the authors opinions of the storytellers themselves. Very few stories are included but complete details of her trip...the weather....her emails...how she felt and whatever else she could find to toss into the book to fill its pages. About halfway through I was ready to chunk it into the resell pile but I held on hoping it would get better, it didn't. If you are looking for folklore and the true tales of the Appalachian mountains, I'd suggest finding another book cause this book will sadly disappoint you. I'd put this one in the ranks of being one of the worst books I've ever read.
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.The Newport & Narragansett Bay Book: A Complete Guide

by: Pamela Petro

1994
I thought this book would be full of fascinating stories from the Appalachian mountain people, boy was I disappointed. What it turned out to be is the authors opinions of the storytellers themselves. Very few stories are included but complete details of her trip...the weather....her emails...how she felt and whatever else she could find to toss into the book to fill its pages. About halfway through I was ready to chunk it into the resell pile but I held on hoping it would get better, it didn't. If you are looking for folklore and the true tales of the Appalachian mountains, I'd suggest finding another book cause this book will sadly disappoint you. I'd put this one in the ranks of being one of the worst books I've ever read.
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.Great Destinations Newport and Narragansett Bay Book

by: Pamela Petro

1998-04
I thought this book would be full of fascinating stories from the Appalachian mountain people, boy was I disappointed. What it turned out to be is the authors opinions of the storytellers themselves. Very few stories are included but complete details of her trip...the weather....her emails...how she felt and whatever else she could find to toss into the book to fill its pages. About halfway through I was ready to chunk it into the resell pile but I held on hoping it would get better, it didn't. If you are looking for folklore and the true tales of the Appalachian mountains, I'd suggest finding another book cause this book will sadly disappoint you. I'd put this one in the ranks of being one of the worst books I've ever read.
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.The Newport & Narragansett Bay Book: A Complete Guide : with Block Island (The Great Destinations Series)

by: Pamela Petro

April 01, 1994
This is a wonderful book written by a remarkable young author. Ms. Petro has a flare for making the history, culture and sights of this special piece of New England come alive. Hers is an objective guide, but certainly not detached. Among the best guide books available. It's worth a trip to the Narragansett area if only as a reason to read her book
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.The Newport & Narragansett Bay Book-

by: Pamela Petro-

1998
This is a wonderful book written by a remarkable young author. Ms. Petro has a flare for making the history, culture and sights of this special piece of New England come alive. Hers is an objective guide, but certainly not detached. Among the best guide books available. It's worth a trip to the Narragansett area if only as a reason to read her book
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