Newsletter June 2026 Pentewan (Photo: Courtesy Lyndon Allen) This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems Royal Institution of Cornwall This article is a brief summary of the history of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC). More comprehensive information can be found in the Royal Institution of Cornwall’s Journals 2018 and 2019. Copies of these Journals can be…Continue Reading “Newsletter June 2026”
by John Webb This history of the current Toronto Cornish Association is from the Association’s February 2026 newsletter. It is included here as a part of Cornish Story’s Global Kernow. In 2024, as the Toronto Cornish Association marked its 30th anniversary, it felt like the right moment to look back –particularly to those formative first ten years when habits were established, friendships…Continue Reading “The First Decade of the Toronto Cornish Association (1994–2004)”
By Tony Mansell No story of Truro could be told without reference to its rivers and their role in its development. Sailing ships and then steam ships were a common sight as they made their way from Falmouth Haven, along what we now know as Carrick Roads, the River Fal and into Truro River…Continue Reading “Truro’s Rivers”
A Cornish Dialect series by Tony Mansell “Tis right nuff Pard, I was attacked an I consider meself lucky to ave escaped with me life: I can still remember his crazed look as ee swooped down. I knew I musn look’n the eyes otherwise I’d have been glued to the spot, transfixed like. Now,…Continue Reading “The Life and Times of Sidney Zacharius Penpraze – The White Winged Chough”
A dialect story by Trevor Dalley A bitter February wind whistled cold comfort through the crevices of the windows and doors of the old pub. “Looks as if we’re in fur this fur a few days” said Albert as he blew clouds of acrid tobacco smoke across the Cutters Inn’s bar. Phil the landlord…Continue Reading “Don’t be Daff”