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- Sharp, Cecil folk-song collector/arranger source:
Biography by Maud Karpeles. Cecil Sharp is the most important
figure in the history of the "English Folk Dance and Song Society".
He was a contibutor to 'The Oxford Song Book', used for many years
in schools. He was a friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Sharp's diary - Sunday, August 13, 1916 (whilst in Tennessee, USA) :
I move on tomorrow at 7.30 with a pack mule and a boy to guide me to a place called Big Laurel, and hope to spend the next week-end at Asheville. I feel I must have a bath and a few creature comforts. Luckily, I am a vegetarian, as meat is almost unknown here. This is called the Laurel Country because of the enormous number of rhododendrons with which the hills are covered. Why they call these laurel and the real laurel ( which also grows here) ivy, I don't know.
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