WINDFALLS From My Family Tree – Josie Smith (CD)

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WINDFALLS From My Family Tree  

Josie Smith has been a teacher, speaker, freelance writer, preacher and broadcaster.  More recently she has also been the Minutes Secretary of the Council of the YDS.  This CD has the author herself relating a dozen stories, in the dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire.  

01.  Mary Ann
02   Spoilt ter death
03   T’ annual outin’
04.  Alice and Tom’s story
05   The Soldier
06   Aunt Hannah
07   T’ Rechabite’s Widder
08   A gurt fallin ‘aht
09   Granny’s Proposal
10   T’ biggest diamonds i’Bratford
11   A Quarter o’ Boiled ‘Am
12   T’ Mystery in t’ Graveyard 

As Josie herself puts it

“Once upon a time there was a little girl…
…the little girl sat quietly and heard all the talk and all the stories.
That little girl was me”

Josie has always loved language and family history, and this collection brings out the richness of life, and the richness of speech that is the dialect of Yorkshire.