BSW3A 12. Rambling houses

Nov 05, 2021, 10:27 AM

Speaker: Sean McMahon
From The Bluestack Way - Part 3 playlist.

Our audio explains what a rambling house is. Patrick Campbell writes 'Those rambling hours and the old men’s tales were my greatest enjoyment, as I listened with excited eagerness to Big Owen Ward tell of his years in Colorado and his weeks on the sea in sailing boats, going and coming home from America. How often they told of the lonesomeness of mountain homes when a boy or girl emigrated, how they associated the emigrating from those mountain homes of such and such a neighbour’s child with the day or the day before or after the birth or death of another neighbour. In this manner those old mountain folk compiled their mental calendar and they could relate happenings of distant years as if they had just happened the day before'.
 
In our audio piece, Sean McMahon gives us a good overview of a rambling house.