Old Chesuncook Road, The

DESCRIPTION: "'They've changed some, I guess?' The tote roads der yer mean?" The singer explains how the old road has been cleared and improved. The singer describes the old days and how one now travels in an automobile along the rebuilt road
AUTHOR: William Moriarty, writing as "Nigh Bill" (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: technology travel
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 144-149, "The Old Chesuncook Road" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Hoboes of Maine" (subject of travels in Maine)
cf. "The Old Pod Auger Days" (pod auger theme)
cf. "In Old Pod-Auger Time" (pod auger theme)
cf. "The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve" (good old days theme) and references there
NOTES [31 words]: For other poems attributed to William Moriarity in Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, see the notes to "Paul King." I have seen no evidence that any of them made it into tradition. - RBW
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