Part of the Breathing Underwater CD, This song is about Nathaniel Bowditch, the Father of Modern Navigation. Growing up, I loved a book my Aunt Bessie gave me called, "Carry On Mr. Bowditch" which was a fascinating account of this amazing self taught scholar and math genius who eventually became a …
Songs about the Sea
301 If I Had A Boat
In the late 1990's I was making my living primarily as a storyteller traveling around New England to elementary and middle schools. A PTA person from Rhode Island (The Ocean State) asked me if I had a program about the Sea. I knew she wanted some "sea shanty" crap that only "old fart folk …
142 Feather On The Wind
This song is quite literally the song version of a conversation I had with a family friend. We were camping up on Cape Cod in late September and a nor'easter blew through... We'd been huddled in our tents for a long while and then the storm suddenly let up. Our friend wanted to go for a walk and I …