Great essay about Hoboken

[Gene]

Hi Everybody,

this email from David Lee and the link to essay by Laurie Sommers is
so good I just wanted to share it with you. I don't know how to put a
hyperlink in this email so please just copy and paste in your browser.
Thanks, Gene



Dear Singing Friends,

Dr. Laurie Sommers has been singing with us and visiting with us here
in
Hoboken, GA since back in the mid-90s and she took an active interest
in the
singing tradition here.

She has finally put her information and recordings and pictures
together in
an excellent and well done article that is now published on the wb and
will
soon be published by the University Press of Mississippi as part of a
larger
work.

If you want to hear recordings of Hoboken Sacred Harp from back in the
1940s
and 1950s as well as current recordings and see pictures from then and
now
as well as learn more about what has gone on down here, then I hope
you will
go to the website

http://southernspaces.org/2010/hoboken-style-meaning-and-change-okefenokee-sacred-harp-singing

and see what Laurie has put together.

I feel she was sent by divine Providence to gather information that
may have
never been recorded or saved had she not come here. I appreciate the
gift
she was given to be able to do this work. I know she was rewarded for
it
because she told me one time that she, while studying the tradition
here,
had at the same time learned to love this singing and the togetherness
that
all Sacred Harp singers share.

David Lee
Hoboken, GA