From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #428 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, March 21 2013 Volume 12 : Number 428 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Which war? ["Michael & Linda Marmer" ] Re: [RS] Which war? [Chris Foxwell ] [RS] Reunion Hill & Indian Boulder [Bernadette Marian ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:03:47 -0400 From: "Michael & Linda Marmer" Subject: Re: [RS] Which war? I thought it was from the unofficial war between the State of Maine and Canada. really, Canada was taking lumber from the State of Maine. Maine contacted Washington DC for help, DC said you handle it. This was 1845 or so, reason for all the Forts along the border, as Fort Kent is the end point for I-95. The only causality was a pig, not sure which side, it crossed from. War was settled. Lots of hills up in that part of the world. Richard could do a song about the pig. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:40:28 +0300 From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] Which war? On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Carol Love wrote: > I had always thought it was the Civil War, and just this week noticed that > nothing in the song indicates that. > > I see a kind of Cold Mountain situation and even have assumed that the > widow is from the South. Perhaps that's just because I think being on the > losing side adds more to the tragedy. > Let's not forget the violin accompaniment, which may be predisposing us to think "Civil War" more than anything else. A mournful fiddle/violin can go a long way to evoking the feeling of the Civil War, especially the Confederate side. Revolutionary-War-era campaigns typically conjure fifes and drums. (Not aiming for historical veracity here. Just commenting on the sounds/images that leap most readily to mind.) Chris - -- "We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." --J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:23:47 -0400 From: Bernadette Marian Subject: [RS] Reunion Hill & Indian Boulder I have always assumed it was already named Reunion Hill because it was a place for women/families to watch their men go off (to war, to work in neighboring areas...) and then the place to watch for their return (just as the character in the song does) and then have the reunion upon returning. Similar to a "widows walk" on houses near the sea is the place to keep lookout. I assumed Indian Boulder was also already named, perhaps for some previous tragedy. I like how the name Indian Boulder seems to conjure up lost battles (by Indians?) and how Reunion Hill means to suggest the opposite. Both of these names carry sadness and tragedy while trying to offer hope and future. Indian Boulder might suggest hope for the white man while implying loss for the Indians. Reunion Hill suggests the hope of reunion while the 10 year wait implies no reunion has yet happened. Just my thughts... Bernadette ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:35:18 +0300 From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] Which war? On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:32 AM, wrote: > >> Revolutionary-War-era campaigns typically conjure fifes and drums. << > > Just like in the studio version. > ...are you sure? I don't hear a fife, or any wind instruments at all for that matter, whereas the violin still heavily flavors the song. Not as prominently as in the *Courier *version of course, but it's still prominent. Also noticeable in the studio version is a subtle mandolin, another "southern period instrument". If I'm missing a fife & drums version, someone let me know! Chris - -- "We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." --J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #428 ************************************