Drunk From Drinking The Gourd

When the adderall kicks in there's no rest for the blogger. We have here two follow the drinking gourd slide shows. The first has mostly images from the excellent national geographic site combined with the Weaver's version of "Follow The Drinking Gourd." My parents had many Weavers' records in our house and in retrospect I can't figure out why. We were not really a progressive family, but I guess the spirit the Weavers conveyed overrode my father's later years shift to the right. This was to be a trend of his depression era scarred contemporaries in the 60's. Read Samuel G. Freedman's "The Inheritance" on this topic. The second slide show has the Harriet Tubman "Gourd" song sung by Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert. It has images from a Harriet Tubman kid pix created site (it's from my archives and I don't remember where it is from, but it is really good and obviously original. BTW the Tubman project with Ms. Rizzo's kids is going nicely. I'm using the "A Woman Called Moses" film and I will try to plug their word template driven responses into a 2 pre-formatted and musically timed powerpoints.