tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post3389869015858537038..comments2024-03-16T12:33:09.741-05:00Comments on <center>Landscape Plotted and Pieced</center>: The Cremation of Sam McGeeKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-43140125371151035782014-04-07T19:45:29.325-05:002014-04-07T19:45:29.325-05:00I will go listen to Johnny Cash's recitation. ...I will go listen to Johnny Cash's recitation. I know of Robert Service from my father ~Dana in Georgiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973506073487871220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-52965582565075218762014-04-07T19:09:39.575-05:002014-04-07T19:09:39.575-05:00Robert Service was Scottish, but moved to Canada a...Robert Service was Scottish, but moved to Canada as a young man in the late 1800s and wound up in the Yukon during the gold rush. He heard a story about a man in one of the gold mining towns who'd had to cremate his friend, and that was what gave him the idea for this poem.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-5608360179071697302014-04-07T18:09:28.801-05:002014-04-07T18:09:28.801-05:00Johnny Cash? LOL, that is something!
I do not know...Johnny Cash? LOL, that is something!<br />I do not know this poem... what is the context?<br />Thanks, Kelly.<br />We are currently enjoying Hiawatha, it is becoming the girls' favorite.Silviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249978624747684879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-91900904406263476142014-04-07T08:50:40.479-05:002014-04-07T08:50:40.479-05:00I wonder if you were the one who first introduced ...I wonder if you were the one who first introduced it to me. YouTube has a recording of Johnny Cash reciting it that's just perfect -- have you heard that?Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-36467187985439364682014-04-07T07:29:00.753-05:002014-04-07T07:29:00.753-05:00a favorite!a favorite!Dana in Georgiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973506073487871220noreply@blogger.com