Author: Janet Fraembs
Building Community Harmony: Thirty-Three Years of Illinois State Sacred Harp Conventions
“I am going to bring nine people to Paxton, Illinois to organize a state convention. Saturday, May 25 is the date. St. Louis will be next.” That’s what Hugh McGraw, executive secretary of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company, wrote on a note tucked in a shipment of books to St. Louis singers in 1984. Meanwhile,…
