Chilly Poulsbo Farmer’s Market

It’s officially Summer and the sun is shining more.  Belated Happy Summer Solstice.  Hope your 4th was safe and spent in the company of good folks.  I’ll be at Fiddle Tunes.  Plenty to celebrate.  We’ve dug out and dusted off Camp Meeting on the 4th of July, America the Beautiful and do a medley of Grand Old Flag with Yankee Doodle Dandy for some seasonal tunes.

I had to look up what the feather in his cap was all about and per Wikipedia:

The tune of “Yankee Doodle” is thought to be much older than the lyrics, being well known across western Europe, including England, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain.[3] The melody of the song may have originated from an Irish tune “All the way to Galway”, in which the second strain is identical to Yankee Doodle.[4][5] There are rumors that the earliest words of “Yankee Doodle” came from a Middle Dutch harvest song which is thought to have followed the same tune, supposedly dating back as far as 15th-century Holland.[6][7][8] It supposedly contained mostly nonsense words in English and Dutch: “Yanker, didel, doodle down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke viver, voover vown, Botermilk und tanther.”[3][9][7] Farm laborers in Holland were paid “as much buttermilk (Botermelk) as they could drink, and a tenth (tanther) of the grain”.[9][7]

The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early 17th century[10] and is thought to be derived from the Low German dudel, meaning “playing music badly”, or Dödel, meaning “fool” or “simpleton”. The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became slang for being a fop.[11] Dandies were men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made dandy was a British middle-class man who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle. They notably wore silk strip cloth, stuck feathers in their hats, and carried two pocket watches with chains—”one to tell what time it was and the other to tell what time it was not”.[12]