Thank you Art!

In this quest, every day is Christmas!

Helen Hartness Flanders had a mission to find and save the old songs. She was working against time. The old folks were dying and the populatity of radio discouraged evenings of family singing. In her 30 years of ballad collecting, lecturing and publishing, she gave future generations tangible references to the songs and told us how people passed these songs on from generation to generation.

Helen Hartness Flanders kept her relationship to me strictly as "Granny", and from that I have a history of both love and music. She left it to me (in my adult years) to discover my own music-related mission: to understand HHF as a complete person-- a "woman before her time"--write about her, and to encourage reprinting her books. _____________________________________________________ Now a question to all of you: does anyone know the current whereabouts of Tristram P. Coffin? He did the critical analyses for the scholarly 4 volume series entitled, Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England.