[HANASHIR:7888] Re: Farina

[PKellyJr <PKellyJr...>]

Dear Naomi Farina,
You have a famous last name.
There is a lovely story by Baltimore, MD, author Nancy Patz  "Gina Farina and 
..."

Also, Mimi Farina  wrote the music in 1976  to James Oppenheim's 1914 poem  
BREAD & ROSES, the song of the mill worker's strike in Lawrence,  
Massachusetts:

As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens; a thousand mill lots grey
Are touched with all the radieance that a sudden sum discloses
For the people here are singing: Bread and roses, bread and roses.

As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are in the struggle and together we shall win.
Our says shall not be sweated from birth until life closes.
Hearts starve as well as bodies: give us bread but give us roses.

As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient call for bread;
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew,
Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses, too.

As we go marching, marching, we're standing proud and tall:
The rising of the women means the rising of us all.
No more the drudge and idler,  -ten that toil where one reposes-
But a sharing of life's glories; Bread and roses, bread and roses!"

(The song was taught to our congregation as part of a study on the living 
wage 
campaign supported by both the Jewish Reconstructionist Fed. and the UAHC.)

I will mail the Chanukah booklet later this week.   Hope you enjoy and share.
Miriam

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