Old Newspaper

[NoNaYet]

I live in Titusville, Florida. I came across this:

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville'>http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville

 

Choose the PDF option, and use the search for the word concertina, and you will find a reference to the Boers.

 

Kind of interesting. In high school (1970) I worked for the Star-Advocate newspaper here, I suspect a direct link to The Florida Star.

 

Their original building is still in our old downtown, but is a furniture store now.

 

NNY

 

On edit, this link might take you there

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/

Edited January 19, 2010 by NoNaYet

[Daniel Hersh]

Interesting item there. Here's the concertina-related text: "At an advanced post one of the British played the concertina while some of his companions sang. The Boers paid no attention for a time but at last one of them cautiously raised his head to discover the cause of the music and was immediately shot down by a sharp shooter. Such are the cruel ways of war."

 

There's a line drawing of the scene too, captioned "Trap for the Boers."

 

I live in Titusville, Florida. I came across this:

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville'>http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville

 

Choose the PDF option, and use the search for the word concertina, and you will find a reference to the Boers.

 

Kind of interesting. In high school (1970) I worked for the Star-Advocate newspaper here, I suspect a direct link to The Florida Star.

 

Their original building is still in our old downtown, but is a furniture store now.

 

NNY

 

On edit, this link might take you there

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/

[Chris Timson]

Well, incidents like that don't seem to have been held against the concertina by the Boers, who of course adopted it wholesale as one of the major instruments in their traditional music. FFI see here.

 

Chris

[Dan Worrall]

Interesting item there. Here's the concertina-related text: "At an advanced post one of the British played the concertina while some of his companions sang. The Boers paid no attention for a time but at last one of them cautiously raised his head to discover the cause of the music and was immediately shot down by a sharp shooter. Such are the cruel ways of war."

 

There's a line drawing of the scene too, captioned "Trap for the Boers."

 

I live in Titusville, Florida. I came across this:

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville'>http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/;words=concertina+Titusville

 

Choose the PDF option, and use the search for the word concertina, and you will find a reference to the Boers.

 

Kind of interesting. In high school (1970) I worked for the Star-Advocate newspaper here, I suspect a direct link to The Florida Star.

 

Their original building is still in our old downtown, but is a furniture store now.

 

NNY

 

On edit, this link might take you there

 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96027111/1900-06-15/ed-1/seq-6/

It was a famous story during the war; I've seen it in perhaps a dozen British and American newspapers, varying slightly each time in the telling. Such was the bitterness of this war that the death of that musically curious Boer by a sniper was reported in some British papers as an "amusing" incident.

There also were several illustrations of that event, all of them drawn after the fact. There is also an independent description of this event in the diary of an Irish soldier who was serving on the British side.

[drbones]

I wonder if the Boers were to play an anglo on their side, how many Brits would have raised their heads just to argue their layout was better.