We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Bill Rossiter, standing, gives Kelsey Harry, seated, a quick introduction to the autoharp as other audience members look on. Rossiter used the autoharp, as well as a banjo, guitar and harmonica, in a recent presentation at the Chinook library. Kelsey, Assistant Librarian in Chinook, said she was not familiar with the instrument so Rossiter gave her a couple of pointers about how the instrument works.
Bill Rossiter spent a day and two evenings in Blaine County sharing his program of songs and tales about the settling of the "Great American Desert." Rossiter used a series of songs, biographical sketches and collected tales to describe the travails of settlers who migrated west during a period from the late 1800's to about 1920. He presented his program titled "Home, Home on the Ranch: Farm and Ranch Life in Story and Song" before appreciative audiences at both the Blaine County Library in Chinook and the Harlem Library on two separate evenings.
Between those two performances, during the day,...
