When I had much more hair than I have now, and before gray appeared, I had streaks of red and gold in my brown locks. (My brother doesn’t have much hair now either.) When my mother was a girl a fellow female student taunted her about her red hair, chanting “Fox in the bread box, eating all the cheese!” and my sainted Mom clocked her. I owe so much to her for the path of Faith, knowledge and stubborn independence she put me on, lit in my memory by her fiery red hair, tempestuous disposition and ever present love.
Red Heads Forever!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
My favorite TV red head – Michele Specht as Doctor Elise McKennah on Star Trek Continues, 2013-2017.
“Redhead festival, held every year in the Netherlands and also in Ireland.”
Also in Ireland?
Safe bet that when the Vikings were raiding the Irish coast, there was only room on the boat for one Pretty girl.
David:
The popular Viking god Thor had red hair. I wonder if that affected popular attitudes among the Scandinavians? They did intermarry with the Irish and Scots and did they prefer redheads?
“We Wants the Redhead!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtN7gAxMTTE
Hi Tom,
Ireland & Scotland being outposts with less chance of intermarriage broadly, and recessive genes that gave a light complexion useful in a cloudy geography, probably influenced why there were/are so many red heads there. But that doesn’t mean redheads were only found there, just a large number.
Walking my dog I recently came upon two red haired women arguing. Were they Viking or Irish? I don’t know. All I know is my dog didn’t think I could run that fast-