Alex Cumming and Catherine Crowe help untangle a few strands of the bountiful musical harvest of folk history and culture preserved by Francis Child, John Lomax, Helen Creighton, Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf, Anne & Frank Warner… and Medford, Massachusetts-born Olive Dame Campbell, whose grave I’m determined to find by the end of the episode. Here’s a small sampling of just a few of the song collectors who helped preserve gardens of old English, Scottish, and Irish ballads that travelled to North America. Songs can also spread deliberately or accidentally. Plants can be carefully cultivated or can spread naturally.
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