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Title: Sixty Years of California Song

Author: Margaret Blake-Alverson

Release Date: October 12, 2006 [EBook #19528]

Language: English

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SIXTY YEARS OF CALIFORNIA SONG

Margaret Blake-Alverson

M.B. ALVERSON
1913

[Transcriber's Note: Numerous typographical errors and misspellings
(especially of non-English words and names) in the original text have
been corrected in this e-text, where the correct spelling could be
confirmed.]

[Illustration: "Should Auld Acquaintance be forgot?"

Margaret Blake-Alverson

_Webster Photo, Oakland, 1912_]

Address all correspondence to

MRS. MARGARET BLAKE-ALVERSON
1429 SECOND AVENUE
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

_Copyright 1913 by_
MARGARET BLAKE-ALVERSON
_All rights reserved_

_Man must reap and sow and sing;
Trade and traffic and sing;
Love and forgive and sing;
Rear the young with tenderness and sing;
Then silently step forth to meet whatever is--and sing._

TO MY FRIENDS EVERYWHERE I AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

IF AS A SINGER AND A TEACHER OF SINGING I HAVE BEEN A FACTOR IN THE
BETTERMENT OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES, THEN HAS MY WORK BEEN WELL
DONE AND I AM CONTENT.

MARGARET BLAKE-ALVERSON

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
JANUARY, 1913

FOREWORD

This book has been written for friends and musical associates of more
than half a century.

The author's life has been a busy one, often with events of public
import, and so it may be that this volume has value as history. Those
who should know have so affirmed.

It is hoped that old-time Californians will find the book good
reading. The later generations of students and musicians will be
interested in the story of one who helped to prepare the way for them.

The narrative tells somewhat of the Christian ministry of a noble
father, of the writer's career as a public singer and of reminiscence