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- A proliferation ...
- RE: RE: Two ears, etc.
- Oh, geez, it's a pun, isn't it?
- Why 'Santa's Helpers'?
- Coal and Gravel Delivery
- RE: Two ears, etc.
- A little quieter these days
- 1100 2nd Street SW
- Shedshrinkflation
- The Long Shed ...
- Trestle
- Pass to the right
- Who's on Second?
- 2nd story story
- Did they get to eat it?
- Two ears, etc.
- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
- Did Mrs. Landis
- Wait. a. minute. here --
- Mrs. Landis
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Pie Town Community Sing: 1940
June 1940. An all-day community sing in Pie Town, New Mexico. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
Bored or hot?
I'm not sure they're bored. I think they are about to pass out from the heat. See how wide open those doors are? If you've ever been to New Mexico on a summer day, and had to stand around, without AC, you'd look that way too.
[Pie Town is way up there. Elevation 6,700 feet. - Dave]
likely not shape-note
likely not shape-note or they'd be sitting around the room facing each other (hopefully close to a square).
Singing Style
Do you think they are singing shaped note or "fa so la"?
I think it's also called Sacred Harp singing. Used to be (still is?) very popular in rural churches: All Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground
All Day Sing?
All day? For real? They sang ALL DAY? Zoinks! They really had to work for that pie!!
All-Day Sing
Everybody looks pretty bored.
[But later ... delicious pie! - Dave]
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