A Buss from Lafayette:
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Below are two songs performed by Dorothea Jensen, mezzo, and Virginia Eskin, pianist, at the New Hampshire State House on Lafayette Day, May 20, 2019.
Here is a link to a video of "Carrigain's Poem", sung to the melody "Scots Wha Hae Wi Wallace Bled." (Download the lyrics here.)
This song was composed in honor of Lafayette's visit to Concord, new Hampshire on June 22, 1825. In it, New Hampshire was referred to as the "Granite State" for the very first time.
This is a World War I song evoking Lafayette as the inspiration for America to help France. Download the lyrics here.
Dance Music played at the
Perkins Tavern Dance
I asked two friends, Sienna and Sara Larson, to record these dance songs. (Sometime, I play the piano, too.) This are to give you an idea of what Clara heard and danced to at the Perkins Tavern.
Here is a video of the same dance as was done by Clara and Dickon at the Perkins Tavern dance in A BUSS FROM LAFAYETTE. Clara can't help teasing Dickon, whose full name is Richard, that he asked her to dance to music called "Sweet Richard."
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In 1825 New Hampshire, Clara is happy that her home has been modernized: it has a water pump INSIDE the kitchen! (It still is more work than turning on a faucet, however.)
Clara's family has a pair of oxen called Humpty and Dumpty that pull plows, wagons, etc. Here is a team of oxen pulling a cart at Old Sturbridge Village.
When I was there recently, I asked one of the costumed interpreters there what an ox is, exactly. He told me that it is a steer (castrated bull) that has been trained to pull ploughs, carts, wagons, etc., that is at least 4 years old. Before reaching this age, it is simply regarded as a trained steer.
As you can see by this video I took at OSV, oxen are NOT built for speed, but are very strong!