Ninety-one year old Charlie Cardinal of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (sometimes called Chippytown Falls) sang a great version of "De Lumber Scow Julie Plante" in French dialect for Judy Rose and Tom Martin-Erikson of Wisconsin Public Radio back in the late 1970s. I once had this lumber camp version on a tape, but no longer--- or so it seems. If I find it I will post it. Mr. Cardinal was found in a nursing home with every memory of those old times completely intact. Street names, place names that were now different, who was where and when, who owned what and who they sold it to coplete with the dates for all of it. Simply amazing. Mr. Charlie Cardinal originally sang his songs for the great collector of Wisconsin folksongs and lore, Helene Stratman-Thomas in the 1940s.

Art Thieme