WyoWoman, I'd be very interested in your exchanges with Barbara on local journalism, so don't go off-list for fear of being boring to everyone else.

Charlie Baum, if I remember right, at least four different editions of The Sacred Harp were issued in the years 1901-1915: Cooper's The Sacred Harp, Revised and Improved, White's Fifth Edition, White's Expanded Fourth Edition, and James's Original Sacred Harp. Then there are the other shape-note books, such as the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, and Cayce's Good Old Songs. Do you know if the New England singings you mentioned confine themselves to a specific book and a specific edition, or if they draw from several ?

T.

T.