All has been added to Laura Zola (Westford) from www.clansinclairusa.org
"History" Also links to pictures at the NS gathering and Niven's
Olympic tribute to Laura.
I was wondering about pictures at the Nova Scotia
gathering that would show us Nicolo Zeno. I thought this would be a really
important part of the gathering to connect the ancient with the present but have
not seen any mention officially of him.???
Laurel
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:26
AM
Subject: Re: The Olympics
At 09:29 18/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
Dear Niven....Will she be landing anywhere in
Massachusett....??? I wanted to make it to Nova Scotia, but I was minding
the library while my Director was in Edinburgh... Kind
regards Claire
----- Original Message
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Yes, she will be landing in
Massachusetts.
Full information from: Elizabeth Lane
manxminx_99@yahoo.com
Hope you can make
it.
Niven
From: Niven Sinclair
To: sinclair@matrix.net
Cc:
gguidi@elbalink.it ; progettozeno@katamail.com
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:21 AM
Subject: The
Olympics
There is one person who deserves an Olympic Gold and that
is Laura Zolo who has
just completed the arduous (and often dangerous)
voyage from Venice to Orkney
and, from there, to Shetland, the
Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland
and Nova
Scotia. She is now planning to sail down the Eastern seaboard of
America
to Massachusetts and to Rhode Island - thus emulating Henry
Sinclair's historic voyage
of 1398. She has done this in her
small yacht "The 7 Roses" which is small enough to
fit into most
people's kitchens.
The route she took wasn't the soft Southern
route of Columbus but the stormy waters of
the North Atlantic where
Leif Eriksson lost half his fleet and where the Titanic sank.
Her
story is a story of courage, endurance and determination. It
is also the story of one of
the finest yachtswomen who has ever sailed
the seas. Her slight figure belies her stamina.
Her youth belies
her incredible achievement. Her self-effacing charm belies her
ambition
to give 'physical expression' to that which the rest of us
have been talking about for years
i.e. why the illustrious Zeno
brothers of Venice chose to join Prince Henry Sinclair in Orkney
and to
serve him for 14 years - culminating in their voyage to
the New World in 1398 or,
as is now believed, in 1396 and
1398.
Courage is the one quality which guarantees everything
else. Laura has this quality in abundant measure. She deserves
our cheers on a great accomplishment - a veritable marathon against the
worst the seas could throw against her frail craft. Above all, she
deserves our thanks for bringing the story of Prince Henry Sinclair to a
wider audience than ever before. In particular, she has captured the
imagination of the young who have been
eagerly following her voyage
from their classrooms across Europe.
Bravo,
Laura. You have that underlying humility which is the
essential ingredient of true . champions. It is also the
hallmark of people who know what it is to battle against the elements -
day after unrelenting day. Captain Jack also deserves a medal for
forbearance.
And your four-legged friends, STELLA and SULTAN,
without whom peace would not have
reigned. They are undoubtedly
man's (and woman's) best friends.
Niven Sinclair
Niven
Sinclair
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