No, I haven't read the biography! Clearly I need to get on that. And yeah, Mary Ellen Carter is the perfect song for that situation -- but the poor dude, that musta SUCKED.
Learning obscure history via folk songs is the best! Are you familiar with Tanglefoot? They're a fantastic Canadian folk group that occasionally does songs about Canadian history -- for instance, there's a great one about Laura Secord (although that's not exactly obscure...).
Lock-Keeper -- yyyyeah, gorgeous and wibbly and impossible to keep track of the characters. *sigh* Proof that Stan Rogers wasn't perfect, I guess?
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Learning obscure history via folk songs is the best! Are you familiar with Tanglefoot? They're a fantastic Canadian folk group that occasionally does songs about Canadian history -- for instance, there's a great one about Laura Secord (although that's not exactly obscure...).
Lock-Keeper -- yyyyeah, gorgeous and wibbly and impossible to keep track of the characters. *sigh* Proof that Stan Rogers wasn't perfect, I guess?