Maid is the designation for the lady in the 1st Degree. Laborer is for a man. The Grange song "Maid" (by James L. Orr) is performed by the Spencer Grange Singers.
(For more music, click the link -Music- on the left.) Click image for larger view.
Our Grange sister Cora Irving is sharing a cassette tape titled MUSIC FOR THE GRANGE: Spencer Grange Singers / Spencer NY.
We did a word search and little can be found about the Spencer Grange at this time. The tape looks 1970's era. It plays great and was digitized.
The Spencer Grange Singers perform music for Grange rituals found in the Grange songbook. Offered here is "Sifting", a song used for the Exemplification of the Second Degree.
Enjoy! (For more free music, click the link MUSIC on the left)
Image - Dudley W. Adams, Second Master of the National Grange.
Sifting (For Second Degree)
Words - Mrs. R.W. Hinkley Music - James L. Orr
Sift well the seed that you may sow, Sift clean-ly as you may, Sift out the bad and save the good, To scatter by the way; Sift all the books you chance to read, Sift thoroughly and well,And at the fi-nal summing up, This sifting work will tell.
Sift out fair vir-tue, love and truth, From envy, hate and strife, Write deeds of love and char-i-ty, On each fair page of life; Sift to the right, Sift to the left, Sift back-ward, too as well, Sift up and down and for-ward sift, And make your Sift-ing tell.
Sift ev-'ry word and act of yours, Sift ev-'ry thing complete, Sift all the dirt and chaff a-way, And save the sol-id wheat; Sift out the gold, re-fined and pure, From dross to sor-did pelf, And while you're sift-ing don't for-get, To always sift your-self
Blue Rubies Finnish folk song "Tuparatisi" for your enjoyment. Don't forget to click on the Music category on the left for more free listening.
Blue Rubies and "Tuparatisi" courtesy of Asphodel records. (All Rights Reserved.)
Krist Novoselic and Robert Michael Pyle
Novoselic plays guitar to Pyle's words.
At any given moment, everything we can imagine is happening somewhere in Nature, and something amazing is going on everywhere at once. Our guitar-poem explores that perpetual cycle, that everlasting, ever-loving ferment of creature and leaf, time and flow, life and death, rot and rebirth. We like to fool ourselves that earth's whole show is about us, when we are the least part of it. But we are--never forget-- part of it.
Krist Novoselic makes music and grows potatoes, goats, and chickens on an old rainforest farm. Now Master of Grays River Grange, he was co-founder and bassist of Nirvana. Bob Pyle, Grange Lecturer, writes poetry, essay, and fiction on another pioneer farmstead in the next watershed over. His books include Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray's River, The Butterflies of Cascadia, and Mariposa Road. Krist and Bob both take daily inspiration from the rivers and hills they live among in the Lower Columbia region of southwest Washington.
Notes from the Edge of the Known World was recorded and mixed by Jack Endino on the Murky Slough mobile.
Print: "Woodland Virtuoso" by Thea L. Pyle 1992
Notes From The Edge of the Known World by Robert Michael Pyle & Krist Novoselic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Thank you to everyone for coming to our Christmas party last night. And thanks to all who helped out! Click on any photo for a larger image.
Due to popular demand, we're also happy to offer another song from Sunday's Pikkujoulu Concert - Courtesy of the Finnish American Choir. Download For Unto Us A Child Is Born
Pikkujoulu means "Little Christmas" in Finnish. And that was the name of the concert held today at the historic Deep River Lutheran Church. The performance was sponsored by the Finnish American Folk Festival with proceeds benefitting the Deep River church.
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