A PICTURE of the iconic Elvis Rock in the Pumlumon hills in mid Wales has found its way into the home of Mary Timmer in New Jersey.
Mary won a limited edition print of the painting of the Elvis Rock in Eisteddfa Gurig by Ceredigion artist Wynne Melville Jones in an American wide competition to promote Ninnau, the journal of the North American Welsh community.
The name of the winner was announced at the renowned North American Festival of Wales held this year at Calgary, Alberta in September.
Mary is of Welsh decent and takes an active interest in the American Welsh community and attends the peripatetic Festival of Wales annually.
Her father Glyn Lloyd Roberts was born into the Welsh community in Liverpool, her grandfather was born in Felinheli and her grandmother came from South Beach, Pwllheli.
Her father’s brother was Alderman Hywel Heulyn Roberts, the first chairman of Dyfed County Council.
Mary, a surprised and happy winner, said: “I was so delighted to receive the painting of the Elvis Rock, at the Welsh Festival in Calgary.
“The painting made it across the Atlantic Ocean, then to Calgary, through the Canadian Rockies, to Victoria, then back to New Jersey!”
A strange coincidence was that Mary’s sister Virgina and husband Jeff who live in Delaware visited the artist Wynne Melville Jones at his home in Llandre in July.
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