One Night Stand

Sam McKelvey had a one night stand with Maree Robbens after meeting her at her best friend's wedding. But it didn’t end there… 

Anne’s song - competing versions

A song about Anne McKelvey was the subject of discussion on a Scottish folk-singing site. You will need to be conversant with Scots or Scots-Irish dialect or pronunciation to cope! There are three versions here - and perhaps they may give someone a party-piece!

An ear for music

Berke McKelvey is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music,in Boston, Massachusetts. A multi-instrumentalist who plays Baritone & Tenor Sax, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Piano and is also a fine vocalist, Berke has performed with Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Temptations, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Opera Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and San Diego Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded music tracks for the "Fame and Quincy" TV shows along with Sesame Street and Captain Kangaroo (no jive!).

Inspiring music in schools

Greg and Dean Robert Blocker, the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music at Yale

Yale School of Music Symposium elected Greg McKelvey an Honoree in 2009. This was a fitting tribute to his contribution to music and especially in schools in the USA

Peace keeper with Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

George McKelvey was a law man with Wyatt Earp the famous Marshall of Tombstone which features in Western folklore. The incident which linked them was when George arrested a gambler whom he and Earp then saved from lynching by an armed crowd. Read on for a real-life mini-Western.

A friend of otters

Jan McKelvey is helping otters to survive and grow in England. Experts believe that the number of otters in Shropshire is growing and is part of a national trend. Jan is manager of the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.

Digging up the past

Jonathan McKelvey is the Senior  Archaeological Projects Manager with Tyne and Wear Museums Service UK.

Developing museums and folklife

Frank McKelvey has more than forty years successful museum experience with up-to-date knowledge of museums and historic sites.

Kiwi snowboarder died in Alps cliff jump

Mount Taranaki, New Zealand

The Dominion Post  newspaper carried the following report in February, 2010 on the sad death of New Zealander Michael McKelvey from Palmerston North.

An African romance brings Ireland and New Zealand together

Thomas and Patricia came from opposite sides of the earth to serve God in Tanzania. Patricia is from New Zealand with teaching and administration expertise for NZ CMS - New Zealand Church Missionary Society. Thomas, from Northern Ireland, has land, sea and now aircraft engineering experience for MAF -  the Missionary Aviation Fellowship.

Historic McKelvey limekilns at Helena, Montana

The first Helena lime kilns were built in the early 1870s by Irish immigrant Joseph O’Neill. Wood was the primary building material of early-day Helena until a series of catastrophic fires in the 1870s reduced parts of the city to rubble. Thereafter, stone, brick, mortar and plaster became prominent in home and business construction. The lime kilns were subsequently sold to James Kervin and then to James McKelvey, a former employee of O’Neill. The McKelvey family still owns kiln ruins in Grizzly Gulch just south of Helena.

Looking for water in unconventional ways

Using all their senses and perhaps a few extra ones, a duo is continuing the ancient art of dowsing for water.  Larry McKelvey and Dan Lewis from Boston, Virginia, have been dowsing for 20 years and claim they haven’t missed a good stream of water yet.

From Tsunami disaster to marriage

A couple from the UK who found love amid the horrors of the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami returned to the scene of the disaster five years on – to get married. Lydia Hewson, 35, and Andy McKelvey, 49, were specially trained police officers sent to Thailand, after the devastating tidal wave, to help with the grim task of identifying bodies.

A unique symbol of an Irish-American family’s faith

In 2009 a trowel used for laying the cornerstone of St Helena’s Cathedral, Montana, on October 4, 1908, was presented by the McKelvey family to the cathedral’s museum.