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Who is Stephen Foster?
Posted on 02/22/2011 7:47:45 AM PST by ml/nj
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02/22/2011 7:47:47 AM PST
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ml/nj
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:48:49 AM PST
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Edgar3
(Don't THREAD on me!)
To: ml/nj
Yes, I know. 45, went to Catholic school 1-8, public high school. I didn’t learn who he was in either.
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02/22/2011 7:49:15 AM PST
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Darkwolf377
( Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet!Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mm-yummy! --E. Cartman)
To: ml/nj
Yes, I know. Public school, age 56.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:49:46 AM PST
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T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: ml/nj
Yes-public. Remembered instantly, didn’t have to google.
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02/22/2011 7:49:59 AM PST
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kaylar
(It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
To: ml/nj
Yes, I know, 44 years old, public high school.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:03 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(All that, plus a real-meat cheezburger and wine.)
To: ml/nj
Yes I know. There’s a park in FL named after him on the river whose name he made famous (won’t give away the name bec. then people would know).
I won’t reveal my age, but just say I am a baby boomer.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:15 AM PST
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randita
To: ml/nj
I saw the movie “Tombstone”.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:31 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:31 AM PST
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mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: ml/nj
Sure I know. Age, early 30’s. Homeschooled by the very best.
To: ml/nj
To: ml/nj
He wrote a lot of songs, Dixie land that are considered today to be inappropiate, songs referring to colored folks, darkies, with a particular English accent that the NAACP would consider to be demenaning. We sang his songs, and played his band songs....A way down south in Dixie back when Education was about teaching kids history.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:56 AM PST
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CholeraJoe
("And if you disagree with me, you are worse than Hitler." Greg Gutfeld)
To: ml/nj
I have a whole CD of songs by Foster. His song "Hard Times" can sometimes move me to tears when it's done right.
Stephen Foster
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:50:56 AM PST
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Publius
To: ml/nj
I knew. 55 and private/public schooled.
My son 23 public/private schooled didn’t know
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:51:00 AM PST
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CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: ml/nj
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I even have copies of some of his “writings” plus a short biography from the museum.
To: ml/nj
Great American songwiter. "My old Kentucky Home" "My Darling Clementine" "Swanee River". Many standards. His songs were often featured in Minstel Shows. He's a mid 19th century figure and died young due to alcoholism.
I believe he was a standard part of American culture until the Civil Rights movement decided that he was some sort of ante-bellum Southern apologist.
To: ml/nj
I’ve known who he was since first grade. Of course as a native of Western PA (Foster was born in Pittsburgh), a bit more emphasis may have been placed on him in my school than in other parts of the country.
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posted on
02/22/2011 7:51:39 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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