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Mammie with a banjo.

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For years I've been looking for a photo of my grandma with a banjo. Finally one surfaced from Aunt Edith's shoe box of old photos. This is Mammie with a banjo that Grover originally bought Mammie. It the 70's Grover had the banjo restored and she hated that banjo after that. I think you can read that on her face. Grover's restorer put decorative concrete on the resonator and on the peghead and basically made it unplayable.

Mammie's Poem

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I've heard my grandma, a keen banjo picker, recite this poem, Maude Mueller, probably a hundred times. I always wondered if it had some special meaning for her.