Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.
Dan will meet Spike's gransdson at a reading in Sonoma, CA.
THIS IS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD
IT'S THE TREE OF LIFE CONNECTION
IT'S THE ROOTS - TO THE TREE - TO THE LEAVES
IT'S BIGGER THEN BEFORE KEEPING THE FAMILY CULTURE ALIVE
I'VE GOT THE SONOMA PICTURE ON MY SITE
I WENT FROM ST. BRIGIT'S FIRE THE CATHEDRAL IN KILDARE
AND BROUGHT THE FIRE WITH ME TO SONOMA
AND IT CAME TRUE
Irish American Sports Reporter "Scoop" Gleason of the San Francisco Bulletin in 1913 article uses the word "JAZZ".
Ellis locates
Tamony's research papers, emails the "
GINIKER"
citation to Cassidy who searches the San Francisco Main Library ( which
happens to be located only about mile away from where Tamony lived all
those years ago) and now locates the newspaper microfiche finding those
original sports page articles.
The San Francisco sports reporter
Scoop Gleeson claimed he heard the word Jazz from fellow Irish American newspaperman,
Spike Slattery, while they were at the training camp of the
local baseball team, the San Francisco Seals. Slattery said he had heard it in a crap game.
GINIKER
Irish Guys Writing with Irish Words.
Boyes HOT Springs (Taking the Waters) and to the
baseball training camp looking for contacts.
See Picture © 2006 Boyes Hot Springs is 10 miles away from this hot spring that I visited at the last mission built in Sonoma, CA. ~ KE FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF St. BRIGHID THE GODDESS OF KILDARE
TALE THE JOURNEY WITH ME
Carried
back from the Brigintine Nuns in Kildare, to Philadelphia PA, onward to
San Francisco, CA to honor Peter Tamony and his JAZZ scholarship.
"St. Bridget was the founder of the first monastery
in Ireland at the end of the 5th century. A college where language and
literacy were treated as a gift from God. When she died her body was
interred at her church in Kildare, where her memory was honored by
keeping a fire forever burning. Hence the church was known as the House of Fire,
until in 1220 the Archbishop of Dublin, "to take away all occasion of
superstition," ordered the fire to be extinguished. Bridget's Fire was
not extinguished. Her sacred fire is held within the spoken and written
Irish word Teas (jass), meaning in English, heat, excitement, vigor,
and the passion of high spirits. St. Brigid's Teas." ~ Dan Cassidy
My
2006 journey will take you to Ireland, Philly and California. We will
visit St. Brigit's Cathedral and St. Brigit's ancient Fire House. Then
meet Sister Mary leader of the Brigidine Sisters and learn about the Nuns of St. Brigid. You will also and learn where the Sacred Fire is located now that burns once again for all eternity.