Posted on 02/22/2011 7:47:45 AM PST by ml/nj
This isn't a trick question.
I cannot even say why I'm interested in whether FReepers know the answer to this question, except to say that it has something to do with American education, until I've received several responses. Neither of my kids, ages 31 and 27 and both top ten students in their 200+ graduating HS classes, knew. My wife knew immediately.
So help me out. Don't cheat. Just say, "Yes, I know," or "No, I don't know." (This won't give it away to others.) Tell me your age if you don't mind, and whether you went to a public high school.
Thanks.
ML/NJ
Yes - Public
Yes, I know. Story is that we are slightly related to him on my mother’s side. We grew up singing all his beloved songs. We went to public schools, but learned about Stephen Foster at home.
I knew of him 37 years ago when I canoed 100 miles of the Suwannee River.
I have a couple of old piano/song books with his songs in it. Can’t find it in the piano bench right now to check the copyright date but it has that 1930’s look to it with “darkies” dancing around. Yeah, I know, very un-PC.
No, I’m not quite that old as the books and sheet music was passed down. I’m a public school product with a couple years of Catholic schooling that I’d like to block from memory. They didn’t do homeschool in my time.
Yes. Catholic school for eight years, public high. He is known for doing X, but he was also the world’s worst businessman.
Yes, public.
speaking of dates, steven foster and I share the same birthday, November 14.
speaking of dates, steven foster and I share the same birthday, November 14.
Don’t stop there.
Who is:
James K Polk
Bull Halsey
Alexus deToqueville
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Pershing
Dred Scott
Orville Wright
Samuel F B Morse
Boss Tweed
Samuel Clemens
Warren G Harding
William T Sherman
O Henry
I’m sure anyone below 40 educated in the public schools will score less than 25%.
speaking of dates, steven foster and I share the same birthday, November 14.
Nope, public looked it up I learned something new today. thanks
Me, too. 53 years old.
Yes, I knew instantly. Public schools of bygone years. I’m seventy-four and very much appreciated Foster’s constribution to the real world.
OF COURSE
FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS GRADES 2 -8
Yes, I knew before I read the thread. Catholic grade school and high school, state college, private university grad school. Now, start a second thread to see where the folks who don’t follow instructions went to school.
Another really good one was “I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair”.
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I used to sing that one to my daughter when she was little...
her name is Jean
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Or
Vince Foster
I even know where Camptown is.
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