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Helen Hartness Flanders -- Ballad Collector, Poet, Scholar, Musician

Helen Hartness Flanders -- Ballad Collector, Poet, Scholar, Musician is a Vermont historical marker in Springfield, Windsor County.

30 Orchard Street, lawn of the Hartness House, Springfield

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Born in Springfield, Vermont in 1890, daughter of Governor James Hartness and wife of U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, Helen Hartness Flanders became an internationally recognized ballad collector and authority on folk music. Among her many endeavors, she wrote nine books (the first, Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads), lectured with local singers and developed the Flanders Ballad Collection. This treasure containing thousands of folk songs preserved in the oral tradition, as well as books and manuscripts, was donated to Middlebury College in 1941. The College awarded Mrs. Flanders an honorary Master of Arts degree for her work in the field of folk music. She died in Springfield in 1972.

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1874 · Railroad and post office map of Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1885 · Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1887 · Map Montreal and Boston Air Line. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · New Hampshire and Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Helen Hartness Flanders -- Ballad Collector, Poet, Scholar, Musician

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