According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby ...

SHEBOYGAN – Well-known singer and actor Burl Ives had Sheboygan County as a grooming ground for his musical education in his formative years. In 1933, according to Katie Reilly of the Sheboygan County ...

Bob Thompson’s fascination with Davy Crockett began on a car trip with his wife and two young daughters, listening to an old Burl Ives collection of folk songs — “Shoo Fly,” “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” ...