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A frequent lament of wives left back in the Old Country with the children: their husbands didn't write to them, or send them ship's passage money. In fact most of those husbands had no intention of coming back, or sending for these wives, and were in fact marrying second wives without divorcing the first. They were becoming "allrightniks" - that is, guys who had a little money and knew the ropes.

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Mappamundi Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Folk music band plays "More-or-less traditional music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium." Vocals, lots of instruments, specializing in Eastern European music (Balkan, Slavic, Russian, Polish); Jewish music in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino; Celtic, British Isles and early American / Colonial music. And swing. ... more

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