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Lord Franklin
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played on cherry McSpadden Ginger (E-B-E tuning) song about Sir John Franklin who led an expedition in search of a northwest passage in 1845. They never returned and multiple expeditions were sent to determine their fate as recent as 2014. They all perished most probably due to scurvy, lead poisoning, pneumonia...evidence of cannibalism.
Nice. I had to smile when I saw the list of your recordings, about 60% are on my set list! We could be a band without having to practise.
Similar music sensibilities
Don't know if you saw my YouTube Channel where I have uploaded over 100 videos of songs...we might have a pretty long set in common
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Bob, thanks for your lovely comment
Just lovely, as always. Thanks so much Janene.
Nice. I had to smile when I saw the list of your recordings, about 60% are on my set list! We could be a band without having to practise. Your dulcimer is quite inspiring I am copying your style without apology.
Beautifully sung and played
So fine !!! compliments !!
Beautiful performance as usual very nice.
I remember Martin Carthy singing this with Guitar.
I had to look him up on YouTube. Never heard this before, thanks for the reference.
What a lovely version, I remember Martin Carthy singing this with Guitar.
It sounds just perfect for the Dulcimer
John T. UK
Sean, Mike, Lynn, John...thank you much for listening to this tune. I enjoy and am challenged by adapting songs I've always loved, to the dulcimer. So glad you enjoyed it. Brian, as always, thanks.
Beautiful. I just love your voice.
Delightful to listen to.
Janene, that was exquisite!!!...your voice and playing are beautiful!!!!...
I love the little trill in your voice, it reminds me a lot of Joan Baez!!!!!...Thank you for that gift!
Lovely performance of one of my favorite songs. Thanks, Janene
I read the 2 posts (Annie and Gordon) last night after an evening out, and was stunned to learn of this new discovery. How incredible and wonderful. Goosebumps all around! Terrific postscript to this song!
Very nice Janene. :)
Janene - lovely song, beautifully sung. And the timing, with the other ship being found Sept.3 - gives me the shivers.
Gordon, you beat me to it! I just logged on to post about the exciting finding of the Terror - and there was your terrific detailed post. (The photo didn't post, though.) I'm sure you've seen the Nature of Things special about the Erabus - if not, go watch!
Yes--Gordon, I read about Lady Franklin as well, and that she had financed one of the expeditions to find the ships...herself after the first 2 searches failed....you seem to pretty knowledgeable about Franklin. I think there are a couple of verses possible that mention her more. The point of view of the song surprises me...initially it's a sailor swinging in his hammock dreaming of the Franklin and then switches to Lady Franklin. Wikipedia had the info about the lead poisoning which I found very interesting about ship provisions of those times.
Janene, this is such a coincidence, the second ship from the Franklin expedition was just found I just got this info from a news feed today, a great day for Canadian historians:
The second ship from Sir John Franklin's doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located -- right where an Inuit hunter said it would be.
"The ship is in remarkable condition," Adrian Schimnowski of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, said Monday from the research ship that located the HMS Terror.
"It looks like it gently slipped to the seabed floor."
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A rare watercolour of the HMS Terror exploring the Canadian Arctic has returned to Canada nearly two hundred years after it was painted here. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Canadian Museum of Civilization) (Gatineau, QC)
The Terror, one of two British navy vessels sent in 1845 to try to find the Northwest Passage, was discovered Sept. 3 in 24 metres of water in Terror Bay, a small indentation on the coast of King William Island west of the community of Gjoa Haven.
The well-preserved wreck of Franklin's other ship, the Erebus, was found in 2014 about 11 metres below the surface in the Queen Maud Gulf, along the central Arctic coastline.
The ships were less than 100 kilometres apart.
Both were lost with all 129 crew. Their fate -- until now -- has proved one of the Arctic's most enduring mysteries.
Schimnowski said that mystery might have remained if not for a late-night conversation on one of the search vessels between himself and Sammy Kogvik, an Inuk and Canadian Ranger from Gjoa Haven.
The two were on the bridge of the Martin Bergmann, a research vessel, and Kogvik was telling Schimnowski about the history of the shorelines they were sailing past. He started talking about something he'd seen seven years ago while snowmobiling across the sea ice of Terror Bay.
Kogvik recalled how he had looked behind him to check on his hunting partner when he spotted a large pole sticking up out of the ice. The two Inuit stopped and took pictures of what looked like a ship's mast.
But when Kogvik got home to Gjoa Haven, he found he'd dropped his camera and lost the shots.
"He kept the story secret because he didn't want people not to believe him," Schimnowski said
"As soon as he said the story, I knew from his eyes and the way he was speaking that he had something. I'd also heard similar stories in the past four years, so we quickly decided to change our course, to go in to Terror Bay."
The crew searched for more than two hours without success. They decided to give up and head to the nearby community of Cambridge Bay using a different route out of the bay than they had entered with.
"Within 15 minutes of starting again, we found an artifact on screen," Schimnowski said. "It looked like the cross-section of a masted ship.
"It was very exciting. We had several happy dances on the bridge. There were hugs, tears ...
"You have very few experiences like that in a lifetime. We celebrated together."
In a release, Kogvik said he was delighted to see the vessel again.
"I am very excited, we found the boat I touched 7-8 years ago and then it vanished again. Gjoa Haven will be excited too because an Inuit found the boat so many years ago.
"I am just so excited to be aboard RV Bergmann and see the boat again. I just want to see something, anything, even something small that will show me how the people lived on that boat."
In the days since the discovery, the crew has identified a number of the Terror's features.
There is video of the ship's bell. A cannon similar to those on the Erebus has been spotted. The ship's helm is still there "in perfect condition," said Schimnowski.
A windlass, used to haul up an anchor, still has heavy rope wrapped around it as if moored to the bottom of the sea.
The story of Franklin has inspired generations of Canadian artists and writers: from songwriter Stan Rogers to novelist Mordecai Richler.
Beginning in 2008, Parks Canada has led numerous expeditions to find the ships.
Very beautiful song, Janene. The sounds are so very clear, and your voice is lovely.
OH JANENE!!! ~if you have CD's for sale, I'm buyin'~ I'm here for the playin', but I've fallen in love with your voice....
This is a favourite of folk sings in the uk and is usually performed with guitar. I really like your playing and singing thank you for posting