COMING SPRING 2009
gM's book of songs, poems, and memoirs titled
Marji's Ballad Book
the words and the music
It will be published first as an e-book for the Kindle
Our Dulcimer
Club
Our Family Genealogy
Surnames: Hazen, Umfleet, Doss, Zehner, Miles, Casler, Mowry / Mauerer, Vanzile, Packard,
Gibbs, Grant,
Kitty's Own Home Page
Dad's WWII Ship - LSM309
Some of my songs and poems. My music bio on notation.com
songs as sheet music you can print out
The Hazen Folk Music Collection at Ashland University Library Archives
includes 35 years of Marji's Ballad Book radio programs and many field recordings
of Ohio folk and traditional musicians made from the 1950s through the present.
Projects GrannyEmm had something to do with in the past.
Royalwood's Basketry Supplies
Fitch Pharm Farm's Pure
Ohio Maple Syrup Page
Cousin Linda's Baskets Etc. has been recognized for its quality by Encyclopedia Britannica. I gave her the basic web site page for a present on Christmas 1995 and helped her learn how to code HTML. The content and tone that won the awards were entirely her own though I do claim a little credit for recognizing her talent before she even knew she had it.
The Public Domain Information Project was a plot I hatched back in the 1960s when the spots where I was an itinerant folksinger couldn't afford to pay ASCAP fees. As long as I (and others) played our own music or stuff that was no longer under copyright, no license fees were required. In 1995 I put PDinfo on the web as a non-profit service to musicians who couldn't afford royalties and it immediately attracted heavy traffic and a LOT more work than I could handle. Eventually a younger, more energetic person came along to adopt it and carry it to the next level. Now it's a commercial site located in Atlanta, Georgia, and continues to be a major source of information for those looking for an alternative to the commercial music mainstream. If you haven't visited pdinfo.com recently, do. You'll find many additions beyond what I had gathered. Please support the project by buying your unencumbered music source materials from Lynn at PDinfo so this fine service can continue to be offered.
The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine
If you've ever wanted to kick yourself because you didn't take time to make a copy of a favorite web page that has since disappeared, this is for you. The Archive contains materials back to the beginning of the web and also preserves some of those old faves. Remember the HampsterDance page? It's there. And if you lost your best web page creations in a dreadful crash, enough of them still might exist in Alexa's archive to help with reconstruction. Use the Wayback Machine to find them -- if you can remember the URL where they were when you had them on the web. What a TREASURE TROVE is here!!! And you can donate your precious web treasures to the archive for permanent preservation. If you've created a masterwork, please please leave your legacy of intellectual property where it will be available to others for a very long time. Don't let it disappear just because you can no longer give your time and energy to maintaining your web site. Thanks from everyone who has enjoyed your web creations.
Ben Tubbs's Public Domain Music - A GENUINE NATIONAL TREASURE: I had not revisited Mr. Tubbs's public domain web site for quite a while. When I did, I found his little labor of love has grown into a major work of immense importance to the history of American popular music. Whenever you want to research music you think might possibly be in the public domain, here is an excellent resource. I do hope that his work is preserved somewhere in a more permanent form so that it will not suffer the same fate as so much good material that has evaporated from the web when the creator no longer has time to tend the intellectual garden.
