The Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society’s

TheNorthern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society’s

Educational Outreach Program

The NACHS Educational Outreach Program has been created to help fulfill our purpose of presenting, promoting and preserving Celtic culture. The program consists of four key elements:

Information Boards listing interesting and relevant information about each of the eight Celtic regions we have chosen to celebrate. These attractive, freestanding boards are print versions of identical information found on our Website, www.nachs.info

Audio Recordings, or “sound bites” of distinctive music from each Celtic region. Listeners can hear the sound of the high-pitched Asturian bagpipe compared to the skirl of the Great Highland Scottish bagpipe, or the ethereal sound of an Irish harp compared to the power and grandeur of a Welsh choir. Borrower must provide cassette player).

Actual artifacts from each of the Celtic regions are displayed in two glass display cases. Viewers can see the “Henriot Quimper” signature on the bottom of a piece of Quimperware from Brittany, a tin ingot from the Poldark Tin Mine in Cornwall, a genuine piece of Tartanware and Edinburgh Crystal from Scotland, etc. More than twenty items are always available for display. Photographs showing many of the objects in the display follow this copy.

Our Website: www.nachs.info contains many resources to the Celtic world. Various links will take you to musical, historical, linguistic, social, and heritage sites. The “E-mail Us” button allows you to ask about a particular interest of yours and get a “real person” response.

How does it work?

All or part of the material described above is available free of charge to qualified schools, libraries, clan organizations, Celtic Games and Festivals, etc. We suggest a loan time of three to four weeks. The borrower pays for packing, insurance and two-way shipping. The borrowing organization will also be asked to post a reasonable deposit.

We encourage people to copy photos in this Outreach Program as well as on the website. Small-format prints (5” x 7” for example) on regular computer paper retain detail and color suitable for school reports and displays. We ask that a credit line similar to “Courtesy of the Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society, Flagstaff, Arizona” be associated with any public displays.

If you are interested in learning more about the NACHS Educational Outreach Program, please contact us by using the “E-mail Us” button on the Home Page.

Here is a Sampling of the Artifacts in the Educational Outreach Program:

ASTURIAS

2 ½” charm showing the traditional way of pouring famous Asturian sparkling apple cider 6" plate showing native costumes and the Asturian bagpipe, “el gaita”.

BRITTANY


Spoon rest in shape of Breton bagpipe	Quimperware egg cups	Monsieur Henriot Quimper’s distinctive signature.

CORNWALL


5” tall ceramic replica of a Cornish Tin Mine.	Bottle opener in the shape of one of the famous Cornish pixies. Cornwall is a land of great Celtic legends, from pixies to mighty King Arthur and the Round Table.	2-1/8” tin ingot from the Poldark Tin Mine, Cornwall

IRELAND


3” Brass tea caddy spoon	2-1/4” Waterford Crystal

ISLE OF MAN


Trading card from world-famous TT (Tourist Trophy) Motorcycle Race	IOM postage stamps	Ceramic replica of rumpy-tail Manx cat

Sugar tongs with traditional IOM (or “Three Legs of Man”).

SCOTLAND


1-3/4” diameter Tartanware stamp holder	3-1/2” tall Edinburgh Crystal

WALES


6-1/2” Hand-carved wooden love spoon	4-1/4” Brass bell showing ladies’ traditional dress


2 ½” charm showing the traditional way of pouring famous Asturian sparkling apple cider	6" plate showing native costumes and the Asturian bagpipe, “el gaita”.