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Thread #155519 Message #3660644
Posted By: Jack Campin
15-Sep-14 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Ballads not included in Child
Subject: RE: Ballads not included in Child
I looked through some related threads here and found one which had been pointlessly and counterproductively closed by a mod.
It contained this bit:
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday, Francis J Child
From: Bat Goddess - PM
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 01:50 PM
His grave is in the Sedgwick Pie (he was married to a Sedgwick) in the Stockbridge, Massachusetts cemetery. Very simple marker with his birth and death dates and the words, "Editor, English and Scottish Ballads."
Technology moves on in ways unimaginable to a censorious mod in 2001, and we can now all look at the Sedgwick Pie online and see exactly where Child's grave is.
Sedgwick Pie site
I couldn't find a photo of the gravestone, though. findagrave.com often has them but they don't know about him yet.
It caught my attention because I work in Stockbridge, Edinburgh; I knew about Stockbridge, Mass. because it features in one of Charles Ives's "Three Places in New England":
Ives on YouTube
The pictures used to illustrate the music are mostly gloomy dark brown. Doesn't look like a fun place.