The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66804   Message #1111685
Posted By: Padre
07-Feb-04 - 10:48 PM
Thread Name: Shore Whaling Songs
Subject: RE: Shore Whaling Songs
On the island of St. Vincent, there is still a small shore whaling town called Barrouallie, where the men go out in small boats to catch blackfish whales. In the 1960's Roger Abrahams wrote a great book about the whalefishing, called "Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore." The Boarding Party learned several songs from that book.