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Just so reminiscent for you and a’tribute’ too. Well done.

posted by anib on May 6, 2019 at 7:53 AM | link to this | reply

Oh my, TAPS!

I love that poem, and could say it by heart when in elementary school. I memorized it for a small concert we children put on for the parents. Even as adults, my brother Bird and I would often recite the first verse together, just out of the blue. Thank you for a wonderful memory this morning!

posted by adnohr on May 5, 2019 at 7:04 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Adnohr

When I was just a child, I found this ballad/poem in our Books of Knowledge and it fascinated me so that I never forgot it:  https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-highwayman 

posted by TAPS. on May 5, 2019 at 6:42 AM | link to this | reply

Being brought up in the foster child system, I didn't have much access to family stories being passed down. I've been thinking about doing some research. My mom did tell me we were related to the infamous Jesse James through her mother, and apparently there was an ancestor of my paternal grandfather who was hung as a highwayman way back when in Britain, but all very vague.

posted by adnohr on May 4, 2019 at 9:19 PM | link to this | reply

I think this is why Henry Louis Gates' series on PBS is so popular -

 with a well-funded research team they use DNA and old-fashioned digging through the paperwork to come up with all kinds of surprises. I still love the family legends that are passed down, the stories Grandma Lucy and the uncles used to tell...

posted by Pat_B on April 27, 2019 at 1:11 PM | link to this | reply