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Community of Goodness
Community of Goodness
Celebrating Summer and The Driftless with Troubadour Larry Long and Storyteller Tom Thibodeau
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The elder storyteller of the Driftless is Ben Logan. In his memorable book The Land Remembers he writes this about summer, “I went out to the cornfields. I knelt by a stock of corn along with the other sounds.  I could hear my heart beating.  The ground was damp against my knees.  The sweet sticky smell of the growing corn was everywhere.  A light breeze started the leaves whispering.  I put my ear up against the stalk.  There was something there. It was a little stretching, popping noise, that could have been the corn pushing upward.  I moved my ear away from the stalk and the sound was gone.  I tried several times, each time the sound was there.  I had heard corn growing.  It was a pleasant secret I carried with me through the days.”    As Larry Long writes in his song Going Home to the Driftless, “A hoot owl is calling. A coyote howling. Down in the wetlands a north wind blows.  Moonlight on the water.  No need to go farther than right where I am. In this place I call home.”

Featured songs:  Going Home to the Driftless | Words & music by Larry Long | Copyright Larry Long 2021 BMI;   Dr. Bauer You Mean the World To Me | Words & music by Larry Long | Copyright Larry Long 2021 BMI | Isabelle |  Words & music by Larry Long | Copyright Larry Long 2021 BMI.