[New-Poetry]

[Anny Ballardini]

Indeed!
  From: opus40-01 at opus40.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 2:52 AM


  Anny, this is wonderful.


  On Thu Apr 5 15:17 , 'Anny Ballardini' sent:


    The Library of Congress's American Folklife Center is pleased to announce a
    new presentation, "Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal,"
    now available on the Library's American Memory Web site at:
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/nye/. 

    "Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal" captures the culture
    and music of the men, women, and children who worked and lived along the
    Ohio and Erie Canal. Nye, who was born and raised on a canal boat, never
    lost his love of the "Big Ditch." After the canal closed permanently in
    1913, he devoted considerable time and energy to preserving its songs and
    stories.

    This presentation contains recordings of 75 songs, sung by Nye. The
    recordings were made by John, Alan, and Elizabeth Lomax, and Ivan Walton
    between June 1937 and September 1938. Lyrics for the recorded songs have
    been transcribed by Library staff and are available on the Web site as are
    song transcriptions, photographs, and personal letters Nye sent to the
    Library from July 1937 to October 1944.

    Also included in this presentation is an essay called "An Informant In
    Search of a Collector: Captain Pearl R. Nye of Ohio" and a timeline that
    identifies significant events in the life of Nye and the history of the Ohio
    and Erie Canal with which his life was so closely associated. A radio
    program excerpt from "Two Sailors: Sea Shanties and Canal Boat Ballads,"
    part of the Library's "Ballad Hunter" series, provides additional insight
    into Nye's life.

    The American Folklife Center: < http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ > was created
    by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to "preserve and
    present American folklife" through programs of research, documentation,
    archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition,
    public programs, and training. The Center includes the Archive of Folk
    Culture, which was established in 1928 and is now one of the largest
    collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the
    world...."

    For further information, please contact the American Folklife Center: <
    http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-folklife2.html >.

    >>>>>

    Laura Gottesman
    Digital Reference Team/ American Memory: <
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html .
    The Library of Congress: < http://www.loc.gov/index.html >
    Ask a Librarian: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ 


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    Anny Ballardini
    http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
    http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
    http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
    I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
    Friedrich Nietzsche 





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