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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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 Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 10:12:25 AM
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Hi, all -
I came across a great book at a used store several days ago. It's called Country Ways: A Celebration of Rural Life. It's made by Reader's Digest. A big, beautiful book with everything most of us love - sections include "Country Ways", and has chapters on country roads, bridges, roadside stands, porches, crafts, quilting, country towns, gatherings, fairs, cemeteries, etc. Another section is "Downhome Cooking" and you can imagine! Another is "Country Stories" and finally, "Country Songbook". The photographs and drawings are amazing and I just love this book! I haven't checked the online used sources, but I highly recommend this if you can find it! |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 10:19:43 AM
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What is the copyright date, KJD? That will help with my search. Sounds wonderful! Thanks.
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. ~~Apache Blessing
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 10:45:05 AM
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| Clare, the copyright is 1988 by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 10 2005 : 1:04:50 PM
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I love that one KJD..I have it too...don't even remember from where..but it was used when I got it...it does have some neat stuff in it!!
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 1:41:35 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!
I think that I would like the Country Songbook the best!!!
Connie
cozycottage |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 1:45:01 PM
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KJD, That sounds like a great book...some of those older ones are so good. Everything country seems to be eternal. Thanks for the tip!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 1:46:00 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!!!
Well I just looked it up in our library catalog and the only thing that I could find that was similar was a book called "Country Ways; the secret of finding and keeping a country man" !!!!!
Hmmm, wonder if there are any similarities???
Connie
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Oct 11 2005 : 1:51:57 PM
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I did an online google search, Connie, and it brought me to the WorldCat catalog. I put in my zip code and found it at a library about 75 miles away. I called my library and asked them if they could do an inter-library loan, and they said they could! So, hopefully it won't be too long before I can view this too! From my own library's online website I found pages and pages of Reader's Digest books, but not this one..... so I'm feeling rather lucky! (Didn't find it at Amazon either, even though they too have pages and pages of RD books.)
ohhhh... just re-read your post... hmmmm.... we know the secrets, don't we??? Don't need a book for that one!
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. ~~Apache Blessing
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Oct 13 2005 : 4:07:17 PM
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Girls! Our used book store was full of some wonderful books today! I hit PAY DIRT! Found a good copy of RD Country Ways for $3.00, Good Old Days in the Kitchen and Good Old days Country Wisdom published by House of White Burches, lots of old old recipes and vintage pictures and stories, and Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez about man's stormy and misunderstood relationship over the centuries with the wolf, and how this animal was almost wiped off the continent in the 60's. Very interesting and arresting book!! Connie, They have the old fashioned songs we used to sing in class in grade school!!! I LOVE it! Thanks KJD for the tip on the Readers Digest book!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 11:32:03 AM
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I ordered this book used from Amazon.com yesterday. Can't wait to get it!
I'm still hot...it just comes in flashes. |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 3:39:01 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!!
Meadowlark I am going to order this book via worldcat like Clare suggested. Girl, you hit the jackpot when you were shopping.
I was just thinking of some of our grade school songs. Since I lived in a tiny town in Northern Illinois, our music class consisted of listening to a wonderful music program from an educational station in Wisconsin. Our teacher was Mr. Farraday. I thought that he was ancient, but he was probably 40!!
Some songs that come to mind::
Waltzing Matilda
Streets of Laredo
Oh Canada
I must get that book.
Connie
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 5:42:38 PM
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| In the RD Country Ways book, the chapter Country Songbook begins with a remembrance by Burl Ives. Then, songs include Amazing Grace, Down in the Valley, Wabash Cannonball, You are my Sunshine, Wildwood Flower, Can the Circle be Unbroken, Shenandoah, The Old Rugged Cross, Rock of Ages, Tennessee Waltz, Your Cheatin' Heart, She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Green Green Grass of Home, and others. |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 5:49:15 PM
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Connie, I remember singing Waltzing Matilda in first grade...
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda...
You'll come a waltzing Matilda with me...
KJD...Burl Ives is one of my favorites! The Green Green Grass of Home was my very favorite!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 6:58:15 PM
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Oh man, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was one of my Dad's fav songs.. and I loved it too just because he had so much fun singing it. Also the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. ~~Apache Blessing
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 14 2005 : 7:23:27 PM
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Oh yeah Clare...KUKABURAH...the aussie song about the bird....
Kukaburah sits in the old gum tree...
Merry, merry king of the bush is he....
laugh, Kukaburah, laugh, Kukaburah...
gay your life must be!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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