Songs for October 24
Good chilly Sunday morning from Boston. It’s October 24, and writer and schoolteacher Sarah Josepha Hale was born this day in 1788. She wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” inspired by an incident in which one of her students, a girl named Mary, brought her pet lamb to Hale’s New Hampshire classroom. There was more to Hale than the nursery rhyme. After she b…
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