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When we heard that Odetta died this week, we remembered a wonderful performance by her in Unity on this day in 2002. We had the B&B then and she stayed with us. Here she is in our kitchen.  Everything seemed to happen in the kitchen there. Some of our Commonground family had come in for the performance and we remember her helping Camden, then about 10 years old, with his homework at the dining room table around midnight. I still have the list of recommendations in Camden's handwriting that we got from her piano player, Seth Farber. It's great that she lived long enough to see a black person elected president.
I stumbled across this Literary Map of Maine recently and thought that I could build some great summer tours based on it. We could go to a selected site each morning, then have lunch and shop all afternoon. I think my sisters would go for it. In the December Mix I aim for winter songs: the hush, the threat, the joy. The Sweet Honey in the Rock cut, We Are the Ones, expresses my feelings about the messiah aspect of the season. The Seattle Labor Chorus has one called O Little Town of New Orleans, but it was to sad to put on the mix. For the second December in a row, there's a song about death on the freeway. You have to balance out the joy thing. I really miss liner notes. On our first snowy day, Melissa sang in the community christmas concert. If corsages ever make a comeback we are ready. In what is now a tradition, I sat upstairs with Monica. Given the length of the program, she had ample space for her rewrite in the margins of "The Night Before Christmas" as a catering event ("the crockpots were laid by the chimney with care"). They ended with what could be the Unity town song. |
The info about a song should be for sale online too. Maybe 39 cents. On the Darol Anger song, I'm pretty sure I'm hearing John Gorka and Dar Williams, but cannot confirm.