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Jefferson Hamer & Anaïs Mitchell, “Willie’s Lady”

more Halloween songs on the previous page

Margaret MacArthur, “The Ballad of Devil’s Hill””

Staverton Bridge, “My Lady’s Coach”

Bill Shute & Lisa Null, “Sweet William’s Ghost”



Jean Ritchie, “Skin and Bones”



Margaret MacArthur, “The Ballad of Duncan Campbell”

The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round…

There Was an Old Woman All Skin and Bones. This was what we sung as children!

I remember we sung it on Halloween in four part harmony to a version resembling what Jean Ritchie sang.



Not quite little kids, but I heard some teenagers singing “Wagon Wheel” out in the forest while hiking. I ended up showing them how to eat spikenard berries!

I don’t generally watch TV, but I would go back some time for TNG! It is so wholesome, patient and overall nice compared to almost anything else you could pick out, not to mention well done… and of course Sir Patrick Stewart had a great role in the whole endeavor. I do not know as much about him outside that, but will read through the wikipedia article.

Rest in peace, Mr. Stewart.

What sorts of recipes have you found to work well with this? I think I see some noodles and chickpeas in a few of them.

Video in Japanese of harvesting and the finished cloth:



I saw elsewhere that the stripping of the whole tree is not traditional but is recommended by the government for forestry reasons. Over the world, people usually harvested bark in a sustainable way without killing the tree, by only taking small strips from each tree.

Many elms have a strong bark fiber that has been used traditionally in textiles (especially by the Ainu of Hokkaido in northern Japan) and basketry around the world.