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Posted by: Stephen Winick
When I woke up this morning, my Facebook feed was full of pictures of people dressed in colorful uniforms that naval or military units wore 200 years ago. Many of these pictures are of personal friends, who have made their way from the cold snowy north down to New Orleans and are now dressed up …
Posted in: Alan Jabbour, Alan Lomax, Charles Lafayette Todd and Robert Sonkin, England, Folk Music, Folksong, Louisiana
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Yesterday, I posted the recording and a lot of background information on “Colorado Morton’s Last Ride,” a cowboy poem recited by Fred Soule at the Visalia FSA Camp in 1941. The recitation is based on a poem published by Leonard Bacon in a 1927 book, and before that, in the Saturday Review of Literature, …
Posted in: Charles Lafayette Todd and Robert Sonkin, Cowboys, Poetry
Posted by: Stephen Winick
For National Poetry Month, I thought I’d tell a little story about a poem. This piece of verse was recited by a man named Fred Soule at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp in Visalia, California on September 2, 1941. The camp was one of several such migrant worker camps in California, established by the …
Posted in: Charles Lafayette Todd and Robert Sonkin, Cowboys, Poetry