The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2858 Message #13267
Posted By: Alice
26-Sep-97 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Lovingkindness Song Circle
Subject: RE: Lovingkindness Song Circle
Mike, may grandfather McConnell played fiddle, and my grandmother Maggie McConnell played guitar and piano and sang along with him. He used to sing "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" to her. He was a prospector, and the last claim he lived on, where he died on the Yellowstone River, was called the Maggie and Me. I didn't know this until years after his death and the claim site was turned into a forest service river access called McConnell River Access (it is near Gardiner, MT). I was walking along the river there where I used to play in the sand bank under the trees, and found an old flattened out tin can nailed to a tree. With a nail, he had punched holes that spelled out Maggie and Me Claim. Alice in Montana