This season is not about racing toward a date on the calendar. It is about traveling with intention and a spirit of inquiry.” ...

While most of us know the song, few are aware that “I Wonder as I Wander” is traceable to a family down its luck in Murphy, N.C., during the Depression and the chance encounter between a lovely ...

Watch Broadway star Michael Maliakel perform "I Wonder as I Wander," with The Tabernacle Orchestra. American folklorist John Jacob Niles was visiting Murphy, North Carolina, in the summer of 1933 when ...

From a Dec. 3 post at Appalachian History by Dave Tabler. John Jacob Niles composed the Appalachian influenced Christmas carols The Carol of the Birds, The Flower of Jesse, What Songs were Sung, Jesus ...

All of us come to the manger as pilgrims. John Jacob Niles was mesmerized by the melody and lyrics he heard sung out by the poor daughter of a traveling evangelist. Niles was in Appalachia in 1933 ...

"Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving, traveling, changing places, knowing people in one school, in one town or in one group, or on one ship a little while, but soon never seeing ...

The American folklorist John Jacob Niles was visiting the small rural community of Murphy, North Carolina, in the summer of 1933 when he heard a young girl, Annie Morgan, sing a fragment of a haunting ...

4 Extra Debut. Personal stories from around the world inspired by the carol ‘I Wonder as I Wander’. With author Chibundu Onuzo. From 2020. Show more As Christmas approaches, Soul Music leads you ...

David Bowie - Life on Mars? Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat We've Only Just Begun The Parting Glass Take Me Home, Country Roads Ain't No Mountain High Enough Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific ...