Beginning September 26th 2010, Macktown will be offering beginner classes in the Native American Flute, the Bodhran Drum and the Highland Bagpipes.
Come discover the Macktown story, and similar cultural struggles of survival and freedom that played out across this country in the early 1800’s through music. Some believe that ancient music lingers, unheard, on the vibrations of the world.
What do you think?
Monday, September 20, 2010
Excerpts from the Stephen Mack Letters
October 6, 1847
Dear Sister,
I have just received your letter of 25 of September, and I have the melancholy duty to inform you that the death published in the paper I sent you was that of my Wife….You say that by the notice in the paper you perceive she died a Christian. Lovicy, if I know what a Christian is, she was one. She not only died a Christian but she had lived one. Not by profession but by her every act her every deed proclaimed her the follower of Christianity. In her the hungry and the naked have lost a benefactor, the sick a nurse and I have lost a friend who taught me to reverence God by doing good to His creatures.
Dear Sister,
I have just received your letter of 25 of September, and I have the melancholy duty to inform you that the death published in the paper I sent you was that of my Wife….You say that by the notice in the paper you perceive she died a Christian. Lovicy, if I know what a Christian is, she was one. She not only died a Christian but she had lived one. Not by profession but by her every act her every deed proclaimed her the follower of Christianity. In her the hungry and the naked have lost a benefactor, the sick a nurse and I have lost a friend who taught me to reverence God by doing good to His creatures.
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