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
Condition:
Excellent
Citation
“Minstrelsy of Maine,” Islesford Historical Society, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/626.Item 2303
