The tragic tale of Bessie and Mary
The pair tried but ultimately failed to avoid catching the plague in the 1600s
The grave site of Bessie Bell and Mary Grey (Image: Ken Bruce)
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This is the story of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray of Methven in Perthshire, “who beautiful in their lives, in death are not divided - writes Ken Bruce.
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Paredon Records
Design by Ronald Clyne. Cover artwork by Wendy Sambery and Cathy Blank.
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Cover artwork by Arlan Huang and Karl Matsuda/Basement Workshop
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Design by Ronald Clyne
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Design by Ronald Clyne. Cover photo by Nancy Van Wicklen.
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Design by Ronald Clyne
Design by Juan R. Fuentes
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Design by Ronald Clyne. Cover artwork by Servando Cabrera Moreno.
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Design by Collective Graphics Workshop, Inc. Cover photo by Carolyn Mugar.
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Design by Ronald Clyne. Cover photo by Victor Camilo.
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Design by New Harmony. Cover artwork by Rachel Berger. Composed by Peg Averill.
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In 1991, Senior Archivist Jeff Place interviewed Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber about their personal histories and their experiences as label co-founders. In the following interview excerpts, Dane describes the design production process and how she acquired the photographs used on the covers of the informat
Paredon Records
By Barbara Dane
At age 93, as I reflect back on the 50th anniversary of Paredon Records, I am as excited and pleased as I was when I and my late husband, Irwin Silber, created the label. Our motivation and goals a half a century ago, all about the relentless human search for justice, peace, and love, keep Paredon relevant today.
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When we founded Paredon in 1970, few record labels were documenting the music that had begun to burst from liberation and resistance movements all over the world. Decades earlier, when I began my own journey as a singer of this kind of music, celebrating the victories of these struggles as well as describing the conditions which motivated them, I was a youngster in Detroit. There, I was confronted daily with the pain and sorrow left behind by WWI as well as the courage and determination of Great Depression survivors everywhere. A vibrant labor movement had emerged in our countr