This hauntingly beautiful performance from the past comes to us just as my parents might have heard it on a talking machine a couple of generations ago...
My parents were both born and raised in the rural countryside over 100 years ago and they witnessed the arrival of the modern era. Many times during my childhood they described a world of horses and wood fired stoves and their seeing cars and electric lighting for the first time. One of my favorite recollections of my mother was of her parents first encounter with a "talking machine."
Just before the outbreak of WWI, on a trip into town, the general store had a Victrola on display playing a recording of a sermon and my grandparents bought it on the spot and brought it home to the farm telling the family they'd bought a "preaching machine." When my mother's older sister came in from fields, she informed everyone that you could buy different records including music and everyone was further amazed! I myself marvel at the changes in just the last 20 years since Mother's been gone from this Earth.
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