1 item found
You searched for: Date: [blank]Place: [blank]Type: PublicationType: Songbook
Refine Your Search
Refine Your Search
Subject
  • none
Type
  • Publication
  • Literary
  • Musical Composition
  • Music Book
  • Songbook
Place
Date
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
2303Minstrelsy of Maine
  • Publication, Literary, Musical Composition, Music Book, Songbook
Description:
Songs of Maine. Capt. Archie Spurling and other Cranberry Islanders were the sources of many of the sea shantys in this collection. Co-author Mary Smyth, and her sister were long-time summer residents on Islesford. Their father was Rev. Newman Smyth who built the summer cottage later owned by the McAvoy and Land Families, in the 1940's. The Smyth sisters boarded in Mary Morse's old Stanley houe and "mealed" at Woodlawn