Two Welshmen, Two Lives, One Ache
Hiraeth was built on contrast, not consensus. Tradition meeting progress. Wales meeting America. One shared inheritance, carried out in two very different lives.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyfed Thomas
A name like Dyfed doesn't travel light in America. He stopped smoothing it over years ago and made it a conversation instead: two decades of coastlines drawn on bar napkins, corrections offered gently, a country explained to anyone who asked and plenty who didn't.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jason Edwards
A Black Welshman who grew up thinking in Welsh before he ever thought in English, in a country most Americans couldn't picture him from at all. Jason represents the roots: the language, the history, the heritage carried firsthand rather than researched.
“Different cities, different accents, the same gap between what Wales meant to us and what it meant to anyone listening... Jason and I built Hiraeth so it has to wait longer still, heritage carried, crafted, and shared, kept breathing instead of merely remembered.”
From “Learning to Say Wrexham Out Loud,” the founding story, by Dyfed Thomas