Gloucester Sea Ballads
Author : Kitty Parsons
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
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ISBN : 9780939792009
Author : Kitty Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
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ISBN : 9780939792009
Author : Kitty Parsons
Publisher : Galileo Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912916405
Gloucester, Massachusetts was founded nearly 400 years ago, being one of the very first of the English settlements on the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Although initially it was a essentially a land based community, by the mid 18th century it had become one of the most important fishing communities in N. America, with a commanding position on George's Bank and the immensely rich fishing grounds of Newfoundland. However with this huge growth in maritime activities came an astonishingly high rate of fatalities amongst Gloucester-men working the boats in the fishing industry, and it is the history of the exploits of those that risked their lives in the pursuit of cod that inspired the author Kitty Parsons to pen the ballads in this volume. The ballads have an incredible vitality and involve story telling in a most immediate form. They also have a very definite sense of humor. The poems were first published in 1946 and then reissued in the current format in 1981. They have, however, been long out of print, and Galileo is very happy to bring them back with a new cover featuring a well known Winslow Homer Gloucester image - Homer himself being one of the town's most famous painters. This volume manages to distill the essence of a seafaring town that has acquired iconic status in the United States through its adoption by so many famous artists and writers over the last two centuries. Sadly, little is known of Kitty Parsons who was a Rockport resident, married to the sculptor Richard Recchia. But this book is the greatest monument to her talents
Author : George H. Procter (of Gloucester.)
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 1874
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Fishers
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Author : Clarence Manning Falt
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Fishers
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Author : Grace Yarrow Mansfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674012639
Newfoundland songs are diverse in origin. Vast numbers of them come from the British Isles, especially from England and Ireland; many are composed in Newfoundland, usually on English or Irish models; a lesser number of American, Canadian, and French songs are current. The ballads to be found in the Child collection are probably the oldest now sung. Then there are many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century broadside ballads, particularly English, and many nineteenth-century compositions. Such are the backgrounds from which the compilers of this volume have drawn their unusually interesting and delightful collection of ballad texts and ballad music. Expeditions to the island in 1920 and 1929 furnished the tunes; and a genuine interest in folk-literature assured the care and accuracy of the work.
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : Miriam Joyce Selker Dodek
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : William Vaughn Moody
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1901
Category : American poetry
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Author : Christopher Stone
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Sea poetry
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