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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 02 2007 : 05:14:33 AM
Julie (willowtreecreek) was interested in hearing a snippet of the CD I have for sale in my Etsy shop (http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com), and I said that I would try to get a sound clip up on a website for anyone who is interested. However, this is proving somewhat more complicated than expected, so for the moment I would be happy to email a sound file of one of the songs ("I must and I will get married") to interested Farmgirls. I think I have the file in the right format, but I'm not positive, so I need a guinea pig. If you wouldn't mind contacting me with your email address so I can send the file and you can tell me if it plays alright, that would be lovely. Just let me know. I'd do it myself, if only my computer had sound! 
For anyone who is curious, this CD contains 14 traditional folksongs sung unaccompanied by yours truly, recorded last summer in the woods here at my home. There's more information on my Etsy page.
Thank you!
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 10:31:36 PM
Elizabeth, when you mentioned that your grandfather was the friendly giant in the song info that you sent me, my mouth dropped open. "Wow!" I remember watching him when I was little. "Look up.. look waaaay up."  What happy childhood memories.
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 6:16:10 PM
Kim - if only I wasn't having a Midsummer party round about June 23rd! What a nice time for a wedding.
Aunt Jenny - I'm glad you enjoy Early One Morning (if that is indeed the first song on the CD - I had to think about that for a minute!). It is a favorite song of mine as well, in part because of its association with my late grandfather, who used it as the theme song for his children's television show, The Friendly Giant. In Canada, where the show was broadcast (though my grandfather was American), people seem to immediately associate the song with this show and their childhood memories. For me it always calls to mind green valleys and springtime.
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 6:10:11 PM
My favorite song on the CD is the very first one..makes me think of walking in the woods. I have always loved that song and was thrilled that it was included!! I listen to it often.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 6:08:57 PM
Thank you ! I am so excited, I listen to the cd several times a day while I am at work. If you decide you'd like to visit the states on June 23rd........!
Have a safe trip and I look forward to the history of the songs.
Blessed Be!
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 6:05:00 PM
Kim,
I'm just thrilled to hear that you would like to play my CD at your wedding. Yes, that's just fine with me. Thank you for asking. And congratulations, by the way! I only wish I could be there in person to sing for you. I'll email you the information I have collected about the songs, just as soon as I get home on Friday (I'm away from home at the moment).
And Meg, I wanted to thank you for asking about the song histories in the first place, which prompted me to do the research and find out a bit more about what I was singing. This was something I ought to have done sooner!
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 1:43:55 PM
I would like to play your CD at my upcoming wedding, will that be alright?
I would also like to know a little more about the songs backgrounds.
Blessed Be!
farmgirl@heart
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 14 2007 : 1:00:38 PM
Meg,
I'm glad to hear the CD finally arrived, and that the information I put together about the songs was helpful. Enjoy it! I am so glad to know that you will be learning the songs and perhaps singing them where you work. That is when this music sounds best, in my mind - when one is just singing it while going about one's daily tasks. In fact, I'm planning to write a little book on that very subject, with the musical notation included. I'll get around to it sometime.
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com |
| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Mar 13 2007 : 5:02:57 PM
Elizabeth, my cd finally came in the post yesterday. Yay! It was wrapped so nicely - even the sticker on the envelope was sweet. Thanks for including the info that you know about the songs, it really helps if I want to use bits and pieces to sing for programs!
Thanks - meg
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 05:12:13 AM
I've enjoyed watching the PBS "historical reality shows" (couldn't think of anything else to call them!), especially Colonial House, 1900 House and 1940's House. Pioneer Quest was also very interesting. I find myself constantly looking behind the people, trying to see what sort of pot they're cooking in and how their cookstove operates and what they're washing their hair with. I always want to learn more about these common, everyday things for use in future Pioneer Weeks. Or my future life.
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 04:30:44 AM
I saw those on the PBS site. They all look so interesting. Yes, the one they did here was like a reality show.
Blessed Be!
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 7:44:32 PM
Kim, that might have been a program called Frontier House. There were 3 families right? They also did one called Colonial House as well, and set it up as a 17th century colony just trying to start up. I found Colonial House interesting, not that crazy about Frontier House because there was a far superior one done in Manitoba called Pioneer Quest:A Year in the real west. There were two couples, one older, one younger that homesteaded a year as if it were 1870. If you can find that I highly recommend it! I taped it off the tv years ago and watch it whenever I feel like being a settler. If you like historical reality series, BBC produced a few really neat ones. 1900 House, 1940's House, Manor House, and Regency House Party. My fav was 1900 House where a middle class english family is transported to live in 1900, you really see what it was like to live back then. The washing, the troubles with the stove, the kids having to use their imaginations.. brilliant!
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 5:11:49 PM
I am too, and I can't wait for you to put an Instruction Manual together. Here in the states, PBS did a program where people tried to live like the pioneers did, from starting with felling logs to build a cabin sll the way through to cooking in the cabin etc. It was interesting. Several people/families were involved. I think I'll check to see if they have it on DVD.....
Blessed Be!
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| sweetproserpina |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 2:59:32 PM
Oh Elizabeth, those are so lovely! I'm enamoured with your cottage in the woods, I should love to have a place like that of my own one day. I love the pictures at the lake and in the gardens, you all look so feminine. Much much better than a modern summer attire of shorts and t-shirts.
Looking forward to hearing about how this summer's pioneer week will go :)
"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world."
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:39:56 AM
Kim,
A Pioneer Week "instruction manual" is a good idea, and I've thought about it before. I just hadn't been able to come up with a format I liked. However, now that you've used the words "instruction manual", I'm growing enthusiastic about the idea again! After this coming summer's Pioneer Week I should have more fodder for such a book. We're planning to expand our activities this time to include dipping beeswax candles, using my new flatirons (I just got a set of three flatiron bases and a detachable handle at an antique show nearby!), and baking in an outdoor adobe oven. This will probably take place in July, so expect more pictures then!
- Elizabeth Ann
P.S. I'm so delighted that you admire the Lydia Sparrow doll. I don't know if you noticed, but she is wearing a replica of the brown dress I wore for the Pioneer Week, as well as a miniature version of my apron and slat bonnet (though my sister got custody of the people-sized bonnet during our pioneer days because she fell in love with its shady-ness!).
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:28:21 AM
Elizabeth Ann,
You should do a little book with all the photo's and recipes. And how you set everything up. Kind of like an instruction manual. I would definitly buy it! I'm hoping to save up enough money to buy the lovely doll you made. :)
Blessed Be!
farmgirl@heart
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:22:45 AM
Karin,
I tend to go without shoes for as long as I possibly can between spring and autumn, so it was just habit for me! There is nothing quite like walking to a picnic through a green field of clover in your bare feet. But we did have fairly period-appropriate shoes which we wore for our outings into the Modern World. The rest of the time, we just tried our best to stay out of the poison ivy. 
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:02:03 AM
Elizabeth- I loved looking at your pictures. Your cabin-in-the-woods turned out beautifully and I can only imagine the fun you had while there! how did you go without shoes though? I would have to be very un-Pioneer-like and at least wear flip-flops. I think my favorite picture is of the shoes and hat on the pebbles at the water's edge. It just speaks volumes about what summer should be! Thanks for sharing these.
Karin |
| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 10:43:48 AM
Kim and Aunt Jenny,
I have uploaded thirty-something photographs of the Pioneer Week to Flickr. Here is the link to the photos:
http://flickr.com/photos/emmabirdwhistle/sets/72157594581307654/
This was actually my second Pioneer Week. When I first had the idea, I was only 13 years old and my participating friends were even younger, so it wasn't quite the most successful thing I've ever planned (meaning we only spent one night in the cabin, which was a great deal spookier back then than it is now, and my father had to sleep in a very modern tent in the nearby clearing which rather spoiled the view, and on Day Two it rained and we all "got in a bad mood" as my friend put it in the video of the proceedings, so we ended up driving into town and spending the day at a pioneer village, and then coming back to the more civilized house and watching a movie). But we certainly had fun! This time around, there were only three of us - my sister and I and a mutual friend - and the whole thing came off a lot more successfully. We're planning to do it again this summer. So enjoy the photos! I only wish there was one of our first lunchtime picnic in the back field, which was absolutely idyllic. But one doesn't want to be waving cameras around all the time when one is trying to behave like a pioneer.
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 09:37:07 AM
Oh please do Elizabeth..how fun!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:47:41 AM
Yes, yes, that would be so fun to see!
Blessed Be!
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:37:47 AM
Kim,
Just a note of encouragement - when people say they want to live in another time period, I always think they ought to go right ahead and do so. Take all the best things of the past and bring them into your life today as often as you can. Be Resolutely Outmoded! Can you tell I'm on a mission to escape the modern world?
- Elizabeth Ann
P.S. I can tell that you would probably enjoy seeing the photos of the "Pioneer Week" my friends and I put together last summer. I'll try to find a way to post them sometime in the next few days.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com |
| Kim |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:05:15 AM
Wow, please do, that would be so beautiful to listen to. It makes me want to live in that time period even more.
Blessed Be!
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| emma.birdwhistle |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 06:03:13 AM
Thank you, Kim. I am planning to record another CD in the near future - possibly with musical accompaniment this time. I'm thinking of various family members who are very talented on a variety of "folky" instruments...
I'll keep you informed!
- Elizabeth Ann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau
http://resolutelyoutmoded.etsy.com |
| Kim |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 05:59:46 AM
You should do another one!
Blessed Be!
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| Kim |
Posted - Mar 10 2007 : 05:58:22 AM
I am enjoying as we speak!
Blessed Be!
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