Happy! - Nov 15 (Stevens / Welding)

15 Nov 05 - 07:55 AM (#1605395)
Subject: Happy! - Nov 15 (Stevens / Welding)
From: Abby Sale


Happy Birthday!

Writer of many Paul Bunyan stories and these immortal lines:

          As I sat down one evening,
          'Twas in a small cafe,
          A six-foot, seven waitress
          To me these words did say:
          I see that you're a logger,
          And not a common bum,
          For no one but a logger
          Stirs coffee with his thumb.
  
                  "Frozen Logger"

James Stevens

was born in Albia, Iowa,

15 Nov 1892
(died in Seattle on 12/30/1971)

[thanx Seattle Times, Don Firth and especially Stephen Kiesow, librarian, Seattle Public Library]

(Obviously, this is not the Irish folk-writer/novelist. He was great.)

ALSO:
Peter John Welding was born 11/15/1935 in Philadelphia (died 11/17/1995, Altaloma, CA.)
He was a friend, scholar, teacher, journalist and significant preserver of the Blues - especially Chicago style. Founder of Testament Records.

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