Andrew Anderson Sound recordings
Andrew Anderson’s voice was recorded by his son-in-law, Leonard Drury in
1956 when Andrew was 86 years old. They were made on a “wire
recorder” originally and in the 1960’s later transferred to
reel-to-reel tape which were passed on to Leonard’s son, Keith who transferred
the recordings first to cassette tape, then to CD and finally to an mp3 for posting on the Drury family roots Internet site (http://www.drurywriting.com/family/) Virtually all of the recordings are here as
originally recorded, though they are broken up into sections for easier access.
The only changes made to the original recordings were a few cusswords Leonard
had bleeped from the original wire recordings. The posted files are mp3
recordings… either right click them to save them and play later, or use
whatever sound program your browser uses to play mp3
files. (It may take a while for buffering before your player begins.)
1. The
recording beings with Leonard Drury’s short introduction in 1956 when he had
set up his wire recorded without Andrew knowing it (he discovers it part way
through and is more reluctant to talk then).
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/intro.wav
.
2. Andrew
was “bound out” beginning as an 11 or 12 year old
child—loaned to a household who would feed him in exchange for his work, it
didn’t turn out too well for him. http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/boundout.mp3
.
3. Andrew
tells a story of killing a pig while being bound out. http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/pig.mp3 .
4. He tells
of his father, Robert Anderson who fought in the Civil War, taken prisoner and
imprisoned in Andersonville Prison in
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/ROBERTANDERSON.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/livemen.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/providential.mp3 .
5. I (Keith Drury) was 11
years old when this recording was made and I got to ask a question about moving
out to his dream house—the one he built by himself for his family when he was
in his 50’s and he told about moving out to the house and how it was the first
and last time he drove a car.
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/moving.mp3 .
6.
Andrew was a master at entertaining people with poetry. As a child I memorized
one of his favorites, “How patty stole the rope.” The recordings here had only one poem
on it—the poem about a hard-drinking mason .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/poem.mp3 .
.
LIST OF THE LINKS LISTED IN THE TEXT ABOVE to paste into browser window.
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/intro.wav .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/boundout.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/pig.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/job.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/ROBERTANDERSON.mp3
.
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/livemen.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/providential.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/moving.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/poem.mp3 .
http://www.drurywriting.com/family/andrewandersonsSOUND/grace.mp3.
(comment by Grace & Ted Kildow)