2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson.

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

DAN CASSIDY: How the Irish Invented American Slang Word origin AND Etymology of Jazz

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.