Folk Plus airs Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF following NPR's Car Talk.
90.5 Jeffersonville, NY. and 94.5 in Monticello. We Hydro-powered Public Radio serving the Mid-Hudson Region, North East Pennsylvania, and the Upper Delaware Valley.

Setting the scene:
Chad Mitchell Trio - (Guthrie)  Great Historical Bum
Chad Mitchell Tiro at the Bitter End - Kapp Records
"through history I have come"

David Wilcox - Big Mistake
Big Horizon - www.davidwilcox.com
"the universe just sort of fell together like a big mistake"

Pierce Pettis - Absalom, Absalom
Making Light of It - Compass Records
"you were watching when I took a good man's wife"

Hugh Blumenfeld - This Mountain
Mozart's Money - Prime CD
"from the top of this mountain I can see Canaan"

Al Grierson - Resurrection
A Candle For Durruti - Folkin' Eh! 002
"something heavy coming down like Easter in the air"

Free At Last - Christians 7, Lions 10
One Woman's Song - TIm and Elizabeth Hunter
"colosseum is packed today"

Eileen McGann - Queen Eleanor & Fair Rosamond
Beyond the Storm - DragonWing Music
1154 - 1189 King Edward II of England, had many mistresses and wife Eleanor

Short Sisters - The Burning of Auchindoon (Child Ballad #183)
Love and Transportation - Black Socks Press
http://bardd.net/college/archive/songs/achindoon.html  Auchindoun has been an unlucky house for its owners. It was built in 1479 for the Earl of Mar, the brother of James III. James III had the Earl murdered and the holding was given along with the title to a court favorite, Robert Cochrane in 1479. Cochrane was hanged by the Barons at Lowder bridge in 1482. The lands then passed to the Ogilvies but were lost by debt to the Gordons and was held as a part of the lands of their chief, the Marquis of Huntley who lost the house to fire from those avenging the death of the earl of Moray, killed by Huntlley.

Victoria Parks - Conquistador
Sure Feels Like Home - self
You may want to read The Peoples' History of the United States
by Howard Zinn - excerpts form journals of the time.
"1492 he sailed the ocean blue, at least that part of history is true"

Karan Casey - ( L.Rosselson) The World Turned Upside Down
Songlines - Shanachie
"1649..they defied the landlords they defied the law"

1775-83 Rev
Dick Gaughan - Thomas Muir of Huntershill
Redwood Cathedral - Appleseed
"1800 ...when you freely voice your thought...dearly were they

I left this in my player...and it was the song that defined the whole theme! So Im mentioning it.
Mundy-Turner - The Transportation of Sarah
Crooked House - Gypsy Records
Transported criminals were the basis of the first migration from Europe. Starting in 1788, some 160 000 were shipped to the Australian colonies. These convicts, along with the officials of the penal system, were joined by free immigrants from the early 1790s.http://www.immi.gov.au/facts/04fifty.htm

Tanglefoot - Commodore's COmpliments
Agnes on the Cowcatcher - Borealis
"I'm the last to choke on powder smoke"
In the early 1800s Hamilton Harbour was referred to as Little Lake or Burlington Lake; on occasion it was called Burlington Bay, a name that more often meant the body of water outside the sandbar as it still does. Little Lake, today’s heavily industrialized Hamilton Harbour, was roughly triangular in shape and nearly ten kilometres (seven miles) long with a elevated shore at its western end known as Burlington Heights where the British army had a fortified post. The sandbar posed a significant barrier between Little Lake and Lake Ontario, though a channel near its northern end connected the two bodies of water. The legend owes its origin, in part, to C. H. J. Snider’s In the Wake of the Eighteen-Twelvers, published in 1913. Snider’s highly romanticized depiction of naval events showed Yeo threatening his pilot with death if he could not get the squadron through "the cut" in the sandbar http://www.warof1812.ca/burlingn.htm

James Gordon - We Owe It To the Pioneers
Mining For Gold (20 years of Song Writing)- Borealis
like the title says

David Massengill - Rider on An Orphan Train
The Return - Plump Records
In 1854 estimates put the number of homeless children in New York City at 34,000. Clearly,
something had to be done for this class of people called "street Arabs" or "the dangerous classes".
Moved by what he saw around him, Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society of New York in 1853. The first such "orphan train" went to Dowagiak, Michigan, in 1854. The trains would run for 75 years with the last one pulling into Trenton, [Grundy County] Missouri in 1929. Missouri's location as a railroad crossroads made it the perfect destination for many trains. Researchers estimate 150,000 to 400,000 orphans were sent west. As many as 100,000 may have been placed in Missouri. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogrundy/orphans.html

Magpie - Old John Brown
Sword of the Spirit - Sliced Bread
John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

Robin and Linda Williams - Adam Rude
Robin and Linda Williams - Flashlight Records
"he lined his brothers pockets and his own with Indian gold"

Richard Shindell - Arrowhead
Blue Divide - Shanachie
"Yankee fires as far as I can see"

Cliff Eberhardt - Brace Little Grey
Mona Lisa Cafe - Shanachie

Utah Phillips - Will Rogers
Moscow Hold & Other Stories - Red House
In January 1928 NBC produced a 47-station coast-to-coast program The Dodge Victory Hour with Al Jolson in
New Orleans, Fred Stone in Chicago and Paul Whiteman in New York and Will Rogers from his home in Beverly
Hills (he did a Coolidge imitation, the first time a presidential imitation was done on radio), to the largest national
audience since Lindberg's return in 1927, estimated at 35 million, sponsored by Dodge new Victory Six auto, the
front page of the New York Times next day declared "All America Used As a Radio Studio" http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/radio.html

Deborah  Holland - (E.Y.Harburg/Jay Gorney) Brother Can You Spare a Dime
The Panic is On - Gadfly
Bread lines, abandoned WWI vets  and other depression woes.

Kim Wallach - (Staines) Song For Tingmissartoq
Where Does Love Come From - Black Socks Press
From BIll Staines: "Song for Tingmissartoq" is my tribute to Charles Lindberg. Their pioneering flights of the 1930's in the  "Tingmissartoq" went a long way toward the establishment of international air routes for then fledgling commercial  aviation. By the Way, "Tingmissartoq" is Eskimo for "One That Flies Like a Big Bird." Anne Morrow Lindberg  chronicled these flights in two books that she wrote entitled "North To The Orient" and "Listen, The Wind." It struck me  how many of us in our lives look look to that very same wind, the same wind that lifted the "Tingmissartoq" to provide  us with enough lift to change things or to move on.

Dick Gaughin -(Oswald /MacKintosh) Prisoner 562
Different Kind of Love Song - Appleseed
"Always remember "   1938 Berlin

Odetta - Jim Crow Blues
Lookin' For A Home - M.C. Records
Men home from WWII found Jim Crow battle

Rod MacDonald - Honorable Men
The Man on the Ledge - Shanachie
"after all these were honorable men"

Tom Neilson - Radiation Train
Dancin' Shoes - self
November '93 Yankee Rowe shipped two steam generators with incredibly high radiation readings.

David Rovics- Who Will Tell the People
Living In These Times - www.davidrovics.com
One of the most important struggles today

**** and appearing locally this week *************

AnnieGallup - Three Bills
Swerve - Prime CD
Annie is appearing this Thursday at the Dead End Cafe in Parksville.
Folk Plus airs Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on WJFF following NPR's Car Talk.
90.5 Jeffersonville, NY. and 94.5 in Monticello. We Hydro-powered Public Radio serving the Mid-Hudson Region, North East Pennsylvania, and the Upper Delaware Valley.