Name
Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell
Files
Biography
Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell were both long time members of the Grange in Bingham, ME. Cahill, who worked in the lumberwoods as a younger man, was a member since the early 1960s. He sang in Bingham and at other Grange halls in Maine, though he never considered himself a singer. Ruppell, who joined the grange in the early 1950s, was the official pianist, or “official musician,” for the Bingham Grange.
Keywords
Jeff McKeen, "Bye-Bye Longjohns", Bingham Grange, Maine, lumberwoods, pianist, singer
Disciplines
Ethnomusicology | Folklore | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Cahill, Jim and Ruppell, Dot, "Jim Cahill and Dot Ruppell" (2012). Maine Song and Story Sampler Artists. 20.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplerartists/20
Location
Bingham, ME
Works
“Bye-Bye Longjohns” collected by Jeff McKeen.