Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Thursday 1st of August 1918

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Did not sleep at all well as my room very small and airless and it was a very hot night. Maud fared rather better though she shared a room with a Miss Falls and her friend. After breakfast we took some lunch with us and made off for Taylor’s Mountain. As we had been led to expect we found a large community of small farmers living in cabins — just the people from whom we expect to get songs. But alas! the missionaries have been there at Cool Springs for 8 or 10 years and without exception the people we attacked refused to sing pleading that they had "joined the Church" and that it was not Christian to sing love-songs! It was maddening as they all owned that they knew the songs and no doubt they did! So we returned empty except for a few we got from Mrs Esther Overstreet, grandaughter of of Manimie Gross of Porters Mountain, who lived nearly next door to Mrs Falls! A most disappointing day and we feel greatly depressed as we had expected great things and the omens were propitious.

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USA : Viginia : Reba [0,0]

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