Ethnomusicologist Dr. Elyse Carter Vosen explores the sounds, spiritual purposes, and social force of Avodat Lev (roughly translated as "work of the heart"), a recently developed form of intimate, imaginative, and contemplative Jewish prayer service made up of song, chant, meditation, and poetry, as an outgrowth of the Jewish farming movement.
Library - Raven Room
Friday, April 19th
3:40 p.m.
No. 128
A Northern Water-Thrush, aka The Water-Wagtail, graciously allowed us to add him to the Library's Catalog of Birds this September when he was spotted by Librarian Brad Snelling. Of the water-thrush, it is written ... "This species always has a yellowish tinge to the under parts and the stripes beneath are narrow, but prominent. These Warblers are found in tangled underbrush near water. They have a habit of continually flirting their tails, thus giving them the local name of Water-Wagtail. Their call is a sharp metallic "chink ”; their song a loud , liquid “quit-quit-quit-que-quewe-u.” Breeds from the northern edge of the U. S. northwards; winters south of U. S."