From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V1 #13 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, August 13 1997 Volume 01 : Number 013 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:27:32 +0000 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: Shackamaxon Street Hi believers, Fred Ingham asked about Shackamaxon Street in his post of 8/11/97. Shackamaxon Street is in Philadelphia, and runs down to the Delaware River. At that location, the Jack Frost sugar refinery was located. The refinery had been there since maybe the turn of the century, a massive structure of concrete and steel, looming in the way of the buildings of the industrial revolution. It was the second tallest structure in Philadelphia until fairly recently. The Factory had been abandoned since 1971, and the city decided to tear it down. But the building on Shackamaxon street had plans of it's own. First they tried to implode it, the building barely budged. Tried again, stirred up some dust. Tried putting 1" braided steel cables on the supports-the bulldozers couldn't budge it. Got bigger bulldozers, the cables snapped. Went to 2" cables. They snapped too. After almost 16 hours of trying, 2 massive bulldozers pulling on multiple 2" cables finaly brought the Shackamaxon St. sugar refinery down. An investigation is currently under way and the contractor has been banned from any further demo work in Pennsylvania. Ironically this took place the week we were voting for a name for this list, and is the reason the Shackamaxon street sign appears on the wall behind Susan on the signup page. Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black charlies@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies "Passion's always half impossibility the lovers that we lose we never dare to forget we visit them in mourning in December and in May in the graveyard of St Mary's of regret" .....Susan Werner Join Susan Werner's E-mail http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies/swmail.htm - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. - -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org - -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:24:38 -0400 From: "Courtney Malley" Subject: Re: believers-digest V1 #12 Hello Everyone, Fred asked..."Shackamaxon Street" - (where is Shackamaxon Street?)" Shackamaxon Street is in Philadelphia. This song was written by Tom Gala who I mentioned in my earlier post as being the person who used to run the "Open Circle" at the Mermaid Inn where I first met Susan somewhere back around 1986 or 1987. Tom is a fairly well known singer/songwriter in our area and an all around good person. Musicians especially love the way that he uses the language and his songs get covered by lots of local performer's (Two of a Kind comes to mind right off the bat ) and some not so local ones ( I heard Magpie cover one at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, as well as Susan Werner obviously......). :-) Courtney Malley "I am my own big brother.......and I am my own best friend" - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. - -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org - -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:04:58 -0400 (EDT) From: MAUMUS@aol.com Subject: My first time... I will never forget the first time I saw Susan... My folk festival buddy and I went to the Philadelphia Festival in Aug of 1993 to see Kate & Anna McGarrigle. (I'm from Indiana, my friend's from Chicago) We thought this would be a good opportunity to see an old favorite, and check out a festival we hadn't attended yet. Well, Kate & Anna can do no wrong as far as we're concerned. Even though it rained through their entire set, we still decided the trip was worth seeing them. And then we saw Susan's set. I think she only did 5 or 6 songs, but with each song we found ourselves leaning farther forward in our chairs. Born A Little Late caught our ear first. It captured that old folkie feel my friend has. The Great Out There added to our interest in what was happening up there on stage. And then she did Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter. We turned to each other and just said "Wow..." That was it. We were speechless, and we were hooked. I got up right then and there, made my way to the CD booth, and bought MSN. CD and cassette. Susan's humor was apparent and appreciated through her whole set, too. We "almost" forgot the reason we came to Philadelphia in the first place. Sorry Kate & Anna... It was four years before I was able to see Susan again (last March in Chicago), and she has only gotten better. The new songs are just as great. This new CD is going to be the one to put Susan on the next level, and hopefully a wider touring schedule. But I'll be there when she returns to Schuba's in October. A thunderstorm is rolling in, and I'm remembering my first time all over again... Thanks, Susan! Cheryl - -************************************************************************************* - -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list - -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. - -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org - -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com - -************************************************************************************* ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V1 #13 ****************************** -************************************************************************************* -This has been a posting from the Susan Werner "believers" list -To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers" or "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message. -To post to the list send mail to believers@smoe.org -To reach a human, send to charlies@voicenet.com -*************************************************************************************