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“Mustache on a Cabbage Head”: Three Centuries’ Experience with “Our Goodman”

Posted by: Stephen Winick

In my last post at Folklife Today, I wrote about a folksong that connected my appearances on some important radio shows. Since then, some of my Library of Congress colleagues (some current and some retired) have expressed interest in the song, stemming from their own experiences as radio listeners. Given their interest, I thought I’d …

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

The Milk River Wagon Train, 1979

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

On August 30th, 1979, a group of hardy adventurers left Dewey Hart Ranch in the Larb Hills, Phillips County, Montana, in covered wagons and other horse-drawn vehicles to meet the Milk River and travel along it to Malta. The goal was to experience the wagon train as Montana pioneers once did, and to arrive in …